Timberline, Mt. Hood, OR - 6/23/06

I've always said that when you go skiing at high altitude or late in the season, you always have to be prepared for anything weather wise.

I've skied in a snowstorm, freezing rain, pouring rain, cloudy and bright sunshine from -5c to 30 celsius temps in June before. So I'm not necessarily surprise.

Keep the turns and reports coming, in French and in English. :P


tirolerpeter":2lijlndh said:
Mt. Washington, NH (6,288') has significant snow storms in every month of the year. But I don't suppose anyone wants to tangle with the wind gusts (231 mph (372 km/h), recorded on the afternoon of April 12, 1934) while that stuff is coming down :shock:
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Peter, with winds that strong, the snow doesn't come down.... it's goes sideways. :wink: Sideways all the way to Maine. :lol: OR Wildcat in late October. \:D/ (see previous reports of October 2005)
 
it was just tough to believe, Patrick, as there was no rain or snow for weeks... and even yesterday night, they were not forecasting any rain for the area. Hopefully there won't be some clouds and storm tomorrow, to let us a chance to enjoy the snowfields and to see the mountain, as we've seen quite well Mt Adams, St-Helens and Rainier, but we still didn't see Mt Hood ! lol ! (we were on the wrong side of the plane (we passed between Mt Hood and Adams)

For Mount Washington, I think that for any mountains that are higher than the trees limit, I wouldn't like to be there during a storm. There were a lot of deaths on Mt Hood in some storms, just like on Mt Washington. We were on some balised trails, so it was easy enough to find our way out, as we were close of the Palmer Chairlift, but with the white out, I would have prefered to know a little bit better the terrain before to go. At least, with the tons of pics I have seen recently, I knew that there was no hazards on the way down...)

Anyway, we can't wait for tomorrow. I just hope that I'm not going to have some problems with my ears, as they're still ached, while we're out of the mountain for about 10 hours...

More report to come tomorrow !
 
Frankontour":iiy03eza said:
Anyway, we can't wait for tomorrow. I just hope that I'm not going to have some problems with my ears, as they're still ached, while we're out of the mountain for about 10 hours...
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As this is your first ski trip above 4,200 feet, drink alot of water.
 
Many years ago, when I was younger, more foolish, and way less experienced, I brought only warm weather ski clothes to Mt. Hood in July. Had a couple of days where I darn near froze my you-know-what off. Now I know, whatever the forecast, whatever the time of year, whatever the mountain (Mammoth, Mt. Hood, Whistler) you gotta bring something warm to the mountains. If you're too warm, you can always strip off a layer. But if you're too cold and you don't have another layer to add, the choices are simple - quit or freeze. In my case, not wanting to admit the error of my ways, I froze until the weather warmed up. :oops:
 
Isn't it amazing how an addiction, like skiing, can cause a person to behave totally irrationally. I too have continued skiing in the face of weather conditions that would have driven me indoors anywhere else! My wife keeps diagnosing me as as "crazy." She says: "Anyone who throws themselves off mountains in temperatures cold enough to flash freeze vegetables is CRAZY!" All she asks of me is to keep up the payments on my various life insurance policies. :wink:
 
My ex-wife got her warning of my addiction when I continued to ski all day in pouring rain at Coronet Peak in New Zealand on our first trip in 1982. When she questioned my sanity I replied, "We're 7,000 miles from home. When am I ever going to ski here again?" 15 years later Adam and I had a white out morning and powder afternoon at Coronet when it cleared after most of the casual skiers gave up for the day. I will have my third ski day there later this month with Andrew.

From the pics Magic Mile this year is about where Palmer was a year ago. The recovery in one season is encouraging. Frank's "end of the snow" pic looks a lot like Gremlin's Gulch last August 7 at Mammoth.

I'm sure that skibum4ever can appreciate that it only took one trip to Mammoth (April 1-2, 1978) to convince me early on to bring a full range of clothing on ski trips.
 
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