More Great Snowboarding
Even in this El Nino season; there are good days of winter sports to be had. Midweek crowds are non-existent. The scenery is always great. The snow; what there is of it; is in good shape and once in a while the sun comes out.
Month: January 2010
Why We Do It
Today was a glory day at Mt. Hood Meadows. Yesterday; the place was packed. The Portland news stations broadcasting stories of more than a foot of snow brought the mobs to the hill. Unfortunately; all the snow shut down the premiere runs off Cascade and Heather Canyon; leaving long lift lines to rip up the … Read more
Soreness On The Edge of Town
This week was a great week of snowboarding at Mt. Hood Meadows. Only 3-4″ of new snow this week; but the weather has been pretty good by January in the PacNW standards; heck, the sun actually came out today. Looks like the management at the resort has decided to put some extra effort into grooming … Read more
Thanks for Voting
Thanks to everyone who voted for the photo of one of our favorite mountain bike trails. The photo got 187 votes and is the winner of the Phat Phat-Tire Photo Contest for December, 2009.
The Big Thaw
The weather here has been unusual and harsh lately. A temperature inversion has made it warmer higher in the mountains and in the river valleys; but freezing cold in between. For the past week the temperature has been stuck right around freezing; day and night. All precipitation has fallen as rain or freezing rain and … Read more
Vote For Us!
One of our photos is a finalist in the singletrack.com Phat Phat-Tire Photo Contest. Go to the Photo Contest page and click on photo number 4 – The “Gorge”
New Look
We’ve decided to change the appearance of the blog a little bit from the default template. We’ll be doing a bit more tweaking in the next few days but we still want the focus of the blog to be on content. Hope you like the new look.
Odd Winter Weather
Today was a strange day on Mt. Hood. There was a “temperature inversion”; where it is warmer on the top of the mountain than at the base. The parking lot at Mt. Hood Meadows and the lower slopes were frozen solid, while the top of the mountain was foggy, rainy and slushy. Some of the … Read more
Blogjam
The good news is by bringing attention to Craig Sheppard’s plagiarism; he has either removed the stolen material or blocked access to non-members of his website. We could sure do with less people like him. Bad news is the WatermanAtWork blog has not been freshened up recently. Reason is we’ve been working on a new … Read more