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Why does Oregon have snow in the summer?

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Lioncourt
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Do most other mountains have snow year round?
What makes hood and baker so special?
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Style+eeze
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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=glaciers
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207
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THEY'RE GLACIERS
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Pool.
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these mountains have snow all year because they are on glaciers
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onenerdykid
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I do believe that Baker holds the world record for most snowfall in one year
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GayWolf420
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Are you kidding me?
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Lioncourt
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Montana hass hgaiers
why noki there?
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Username_42069
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go to school
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Freeheel4real
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mt. baker is not in oregon, theres also no skiing during the summer there, timberline at mt. hood has skiing during the summer only on their palmer snowfield, which is at very high elevation (7-8,000) and has a deep snowpack. That is why.
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thesheik
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do i get to say it?

NOMINATED?

i can be ns cool now?
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ReignMan
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yes it dose in 1998 1999 season they got 1140 inches of snow fall. It was so much that they had to did trenches for the chair lifts in some areas.
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sherwood4099
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fucking glaciers how do they work?
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95959
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Mt. Hood Meadows actually buried cooling systems just under the dirt near the top of the mountain to prevent the snow from melting. Pretty good idea if you ask me
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lawl
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hoodratz47
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a lot of salt..... really..
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eheath
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agreed
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jason...
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seconded.
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danbrown
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It's simple, really. Hood covers all of the snow in hay every night, which insulates it and keeps it around all year.
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syrup.
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those damn glaciers.
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McFellon
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DutchhGutss
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Yea wtf is snow?
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Evilchris
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the skiers of Oregon have a virgin sacrifice every other weak to please the snow gods, duh
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Chlamydia
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why is every thread you make a shit show??
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.frenchy
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High elevation+a shitton of snow
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p-fo
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this is obviously an alias trolling for a nomination. dont give it to him
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~~JEFF~~
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actually salt is the only way Timberline keeps its skiing..no joke

i guess this would be an appropriate time to say "this"////////
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Jonny7
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Lioncourt scares meh
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howlongcanausern
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y'all skiers postin in a troll thread
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RudyGarmisch
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Can he go for the three-peat though?
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EC-Skier
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.jesus.
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cuz boobs are good
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Peach.
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.
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jerm
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they were downgraded from glaciers to snowfields some years ago. it has mostly to do with the deep snowpack in the ravines and valleys that keeps the new snow cold. timberline also does a lot of snow farming throughout the winter up on the palmer snowfield to insure there will be enough snow for the summer months.
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PJS.
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nature hates you
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andreweckels
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spot on

plus insane amounts of salt

like over a thousand 50 lb bags a day
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SurfaceHoar
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Lots of heavy snow, and a relatively mild summer season.



For comparison, The hood site averages 65in SWE, where snowbird averages 43in. 40% more water falls as snow at  Hood and the average august temp  is about 10F cooler.  

Lots of water to melt away + mild temperatures = a long lasting snow pack
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wameron
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Glaciers how the fuck do they work?
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Clipper
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base line mt. hood = best place of earth
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Grame
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pretty much
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blatt
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fucking magnets.
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jdilla
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snow from the winter sticks around throughout the summer, then the next winter new snow covers old snow and this process continues for years and years and years. it creates layers, and compresses the old snow eventually turning the bottom layers to ice, which keeps snow around. kind of like a giant snowball.
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