A Wind Scene Built to Last
- Written by Ben Jacklet
- Category: Wind and Waves
- Published: September 21, 2016
The Columbia River Gorge has some of the finest windsurfing in the world, as Ingrid Larouche demonstrates. Photos by Grant Myrdal
If you spend as much time up on Mount Hood in winter as I do you probably know a few Columbia River Gorge wind hounds. They share a lot in common with powder hounds: that passion for intensity, the need for speed, a serious obsession with weather conditions. In fact, they may be even more obsessed with wind than we are with snow—and that's saying something.
Here Are Your 10 Opportunities to See Warren Miller's 2016 Film in Oregon
- Written by Ben Jacklet
- Category: Events
- Published: September 22, 2016
Get ready to drop in! Warren Miller time means winter's on the way. Jess McMillan and Grete Eliassen in Switzerland, photo by Grant Gunderson
Anyone else out there suffering from snow withdrawals?
Snowvana Pre-Winter Bash to Launch Oct. 21-22 in Portland
- Written by Ben Jacklet
- Category: News
- Published: August 03, 2016
It's never to early to day-dream about gliding through the snow on Mount Hood.
A celebration to jump-start the 2016-17 snow season on Mount Hood is set to make its debut at the Memorial Coliseum the weekend of October 21-22.
TGR Celebrates 21 Years with Tight Loose Shenanigans
- Written by Ben Jacklet
- Category: Events
- Published: September 21, 2016
TGR has been pushing mountain limits for 21 years.
Let the Shred Film Season begin! Teton Gravity Research is turning 21 years old this winter, and that calls for a celebration.
'A Special Kind of Crazy': The Mount Hood Community Mourns the Death of Mike Heffernan
- Written by Ben Jacklet
- Category: Mountain Characters
- Published: August 23, 2016
Mike Heffernan
Mount Hood’s one and only Mike Heffernan died on Friday, August 19 after suffering severe injuries in a motorcycle crash on the mountain. He was 53.
Family Flow Time: The Simple Pleasure of Running Oregon’s Sandy River with Your Kids
- Written by Ben Jacklet
- Category: Paddling
- Published: June 28, 2016
Paddling the Sandy with your children is easy, safe and fun.
Like a lot of hard-core winter sports enthusiasts, I tend to have a hard time when the snow melts. Especially after an especially fine powder season like 2015-16. It can be painful when that waist-deep snow melts down into slush. Except those H2O molecules you’ve been riding aren’t really gone.
17 Miles of Bliss and Growing: The Rise of Sandy Ridge as an Oregon Mountain Biking Destination
- Written by Eileen Garvin
- Category: Mountain Biking
- Published: June 24, 2016
Sandy Ridge was built for mountain bikers by mountain bikers. Photos by Leslie Kehmeier, courtesy of BLM
In the damp, shady forest on the western side of Mount Hood, there’s a magical system of trails so perfect it’s almost like it emerged fully formed out of a mountain biker’s dream.
Mount Hood Cooper Spur Land Exchange Clarification Act Passes House 401 Votes to 2
- Written by Ben Jacklet
- Category: News
- Published: June 09, 2016
Mt. Hood Meadows will receive 120 acres in Government Camp for development if the deal goes through.
A bill authored by Greg Walden and Earl Blumenauer requiring the U.S. Forest Service to complete a land exchange on Mt. Hood has passed the U.S. House in a lopsided bipartisan vote, 401-2.
Back Issues of the Shred Hood E-Mag
- Category: E-Magazines
- Last Updated: July 09, 2016
All the news that's fit to shred is in the Shred Hood E-Mag.
Here are all the links to our 90-plus published e-magazines, chock full of news from Mount Hood and the wider world of skiing and snowboarding and mountain adventures (and misadventures).
