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
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 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 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
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”
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.
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
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
Look at this wonderful article by Craig Sheppard; General Manager of Kayak Fishing Stuff: http://www.kayakfishingstuff.com/drupal/content/hobie-quest-bait-tank Craig came to the WatermanAtWork website and stole this article word for word; photo for photo; copied and pasted it on the Kayak Fishing Stuff website. Have a look: http://www.watermanatwork.com/KayakFishing/KayakRigging/BaitTank/BaitTank.html What happens when you steal stuff? Guys who don’t have … Read more
A great day of snowboarding at Mt. Hood Meadows today; blue skies and fresh powder. Monday light crowds; no lift lines. Plenty of crisp powder off the main runs, the temperature and humidity were perfect to keep the groomers in great shape for full speed bomber runs. The wind slacked off just enough around noon … Read more