Twenty lanes of shredding as Palmer hits its summer peak
- Written by Ben Jacklet
- Category: Camps
- Published: July 21, 2014
Kristen Smith shredding a bump line on Mount Hood's Palmer Snowfield.
Seven-year-old Tucker Smith of Sun Valley has just finished ripping it through the bumps on the Palmer Snowfield with stunning style, and now his mom Kristen is rocking her way down a Mount Hood mogul strip in mid-July.
Louie Vito, Gigi Ruf and friends crank up the summer heat for Session Three at High Cascade
- Written by Ben Jacklet
- Category: Killer Video
- Published: July 17, 2014
High Cascade Snowboard Camp just wrapped up a smoking-hot Session Three on Mount Hood, with some serious slush-shred style from Gigi Ruf, Halldor Helgason, Max Warbington, Louie Vito, and many more.
Racers power up and rip it down Skibowl for Mountain Man 2014
- Written by Ben Jacklet
- Category: Mountain bike racing
- Published: July 14, 2014
Charlie Sponsel took first in both the uphill and the downhill.
Racers powered through a grueling uphill and a ripping-fast downhill for the July 13 Mountain Man Challenge mountain bike race at Mt. Hood Skibowl.
Powerful lightning storm on Mount Hood sends summer campers scrambling for shelter
- Written by Ben Jacklet
- Category: News
- Published: July 14, 2014
A powerful storm rolled in Sunday morning and shut down operations at Timberline.
A lightning storm powerful enough to zap chairlift riders with shocks of static electricity cleared the slopes on Mount Hood Sunday morning and canceled a day of training at the peak of the summer season.
Attention all vertical junkies: Hope on the Slopes is launching a full-season contest to raise money to fight cancer
- Written by Ben Jacklet
- Category: Culture/Style
- Published: June 27, 2014
Jay Pollock skied more than 60,000 feet of vertical in six hours for Ski to Defeat ALS 2014. How many feet could he rack up in six months?
After years of organizing single-day vertical challenge fundraisers to fight cancer, Hope on the Slopes is now launching a full-season contest to track your turns anywhere you ski or snowboard.
Here's a sneak peek inside evo's ambitious remodel of a historic Portland building into the newest PDX shred shop
- Written by Ben Jacklet
- Category: Business
- Published: June 24, 2014
Jordan Sunshine, general manager of the new evo Portland store, near what will eventually be the store entrance.
I got the opportunity to check out the big old building that will become the new evo store in Portland's Central Eastside yesterday, and I was struck by two things: how much has been done so far, and how much work remains to be done.
18 Summer Training Camps for Skiers and Snowboarders on Mount Hood
- Written by Ben Jacklet
- Category: Resources
- Published: June 16, 2014
Coach Izi Jerman, Robin Cressy, and a team of Mt. Hood Summer Ski Campers enjoying the mountain in the summer of 2000. Photo by Brian Robb, courtesy of Mt. Hood Summer Ski Camps
If you're looking to take your skiing or snowboarding to the next level this summer, Mount Hood is the place to be.
Skibowl opens its summer season with seven days a week of mountain biking, alpine sledding and other activities
- Written by Ben Jacklet
- Category: Resorts
- Published: June 12, 2014
Skibowl's half-mile Alpine Slide is a big summer attraction, and one of many. Photo courtesy of Skibowl.
Mt. Hood Skibowl's 26th summer season officially opened Saturday, June 14 and will run seven days a week through Labor Day.
Five things you should know about ODOT's $25 million US 26 project
- Written by Ben Jacklet
- Category: Transportation
- Published: June 11, 2014
If you plan on driving up to Mount Hood on US 26 this summer or any of the next three summers, you should probably know a few key details about the $25 million Mt. Hood Safety Project starting June 23, 2014 and running through the fall of 2016.
High Cascade Snowboard Camp launches its 25th summer on Mount Hood
- Written by Ben Jacklet
- Category: Camps
- Published: June 09, 2014
Spencer Schubert gets his summer shred on at High Cascade on Mount Hood. Photo by Greg Furey via High Cascade Snowboard Camp.
More than 1,000 campers and some of the top snowboarders in the world will be rolling through Mount Hood this summer as High Cascade Snowboard Camp celebrates its 25th year of summer shredding.