Mt. hood questions

thanks for park info esp. because i heard different stuff about parks being open or closed and not much about the public park thanks again

im not too in the know on jobs up there, but as for the mountain itself...

it gets a lot of snow during the winter. However, with typical pnw storms and such, the upper mountain of meadows (where the good terrain is) is generally closed or has piss poor visibility. Timberline simply closes Palmer for the winter. So overall, the all mountain skiing isn't anything to get excited about, despite to copious amounts of snow. Ski bowl has the best terrain, it can be quite fun.

The park is generally better at timberline in the winter, however, meadows has its times, and gets better in the spring until closing. Then, in summer, the public park gets good, and usually at its best right after ASJ in July. After august though, skiing is pretty much toast until the snows fall again; the snowfields just arent as big in the summer as they used to be, whether it be the palmer snowfield on hood or any of the cascade volcanoes.

and for employee housing, usually youre stuck up in these places in govy. not so bad.

if you live in portland, well, you have good access to what the portland area provides, but with higher costs usually. It is further from the mountain, but the drive isn't so bad (save weekends when it can be hell with lots of snow falling). After sandy, the towns (if you can call them that) are small little places. There isn't much to do except go skiing and/or work. Govy has good proximity to the ski areas, but there really isnt shit there, even in the summer (just some camps and racers).

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As long as you know someone that lives out there, you're set.

you should just make a trip out there some summer to see first. hood is a really, really incredible place to be during the summer. i had an amazing time there.

butterflies rule. the snow is perfect for riding. the public park was as good as any winter park i'd ever ridden, although it seems the staff are really lazy and don't maintain anything because it became a little worse everyday.

from what i saw portland is a really cool city. i'd love to live there. i want to live there.

pardon me for not responding to your post in a 1-10 fashion.

message noteefa. he lived there for a year

So this past summer i worked out there and it was the best thing to ever happen to me. So go and do it!

You pretty much need to show up at the HR office to get a job, they really dont call people back.

Parks, during the day its hard to poach windells and Gay Cascade, but you can hike in the evening. MHSSC - the guys will let you ride it if you are polite and help out
public park after ASJ is amazing but slowly decline from there and middle of august High Cascade becomes public park for a few weeks.
As for fall message 'creighton' he is living there right now


housing - Summit Apartments 350 month, pretty crappy though. You could also rent a house with a bunch of peeps but that may be a little harder.

1. In the winter you wouldn't want to be skiing at Timberline you'd wanna be at Meadows because they've got the better pow and park.
2. Living in Govy Camp/surrounding area would make an easier commute to the mountain and Portland would be a bitch to get out of.
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4. The public park is weak and windell's park is sick
5. The features are okay. But you might want to consider working for Windells
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9. Its fun but as I said above...
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don't move to Hood bro. I just moved from there to Mt. Bachelor in Bend OR. WAY BETTER snow and season. guarantee bro. Bend is 20 minutes from bachelor. Portland is an hour at least. Bend has high desert fluff and Hood has Columbia River Slush. There really isn't anywhere close to live in Hood except for Sandy or Gresham, but even then your 30 45 minutes out one way. Look into Bend Oregon. I just moved here and Im stoked out of my mind. Total ski town with just as much to do in the summer with Moutain biking and kayaking and rock climbing Smith Rocks. Look into it

i live in hood river, which is an hour away from hood

If i was going to come here for skiing, i would try to show up right around mid april, there fore timberline is just starting summer highering and meadows has 100 dollar pass, meadows april parks are the best in the country see push ski porn yeah dude for examples,

guy above my last post is kind of right, bends better for the winter but portlands way better for summer

theres way better mountain biking in hood river than bend, plus kiteboarding and kayaking

move to bend, much better.

bachelor and hood are sick. post this in the oregon forum.

it depends if you want to live somewhere cool, or be able to ski all the time. portland is one of the best cities in north america. if you're into art, music, cities, etc, it's the place to be, with the added bonus that you can ski at hood a lot. If you want to live right on hood, the towns are tiny and there isn't much to do, but you will be able to ski every day if you want to.

as far as the mountain, it's already been said..meadows in the winter, timberline in the summer. meadows has KILLER parks in the spring, and is a pretty fun place in general.

portland is THE best city to live in, and Mt. Hood Meadows always gets lots of (wet) pow, but hey its pow and its soft and its nice. And there are always the deep, light days sometimes.

Parks in the winter kind of suck in my opinion, but tehre are good setups from time to time at Mt. hood Meadows. Timberline actually has a much smoother park to hit, but wax your skis cause its flat

yo bros..thanks a lot for the info. i am headed out there in two months and looks like i will have a job.