Road Trip Today...

[WAYNO]

My wife was saying today how tired she is of the dismal weather.

So I offered a trip to the mountain, where it's a little brighter. 8)

We're roughly 1-hour from the first ski slopes on the Southwest side of Mt. Hood.

This is the little town of Government Camp.









And here's the little Summit ski slope at Government Camp. Known as a beginner slope, I ski'd a lot here when I was much younger. The parking lot here is at 4,000 feet.





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Here's Ski Bowl. The parking lot is also 4,000 feet, but the slopes go nearly up to the moon. It was snowing so hard we could only see a couple hundred feet up the slope.







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There are thousands of motel rooms, rental cabins, and residences scattered around these two ski areas in Government Camp, and tons of activities, both winter and summer.


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And here's the bus that gets us up and down the hill.





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[Heliman]

Well, that is one way to get out of the lowland rains.... Looks like you had a good time.

 

[Big Old Boy]

Nice weather for traveling.

 

[bogus bill]

Nice weather for sitting in front of the fire.
We live at 6,000 feet in utah. Had about a foot of snow again a couple nights ago. We are at the foot of a 10,000 ft mountain range. Once or twice a week we drive fifty miles down to st george to get out of the snow as st george is 2,500 feet. I guess its all a matter of your perspective.

 

[graygun]

I went to Mt Hood Meadows about 15 yrs ago. It was deep powder pretty much everywhere. I'm not good in powder but pretty good on pp. I'm going to Angel Fire,NM in two days...610-mile drive.

nice photos

 

[WAYNO]

I went to Mt Hood Meadows about 15 yrs ago. It was deep powder pretty much everywhere. I'm not good in powder but pretty good on pp. I'm going to Angel Fire,NM in two days...610-mile drive.

nice photos

Meadows is where I set the all time speed record on skis. And the whole time, I was trying to slow down. Once I crashed, the little ski patrol guys swooped down on me and threatened to take my lift pass for skiing too fast. I asked them, "do you think I was trying to go this fast?" :shock:

 

[CGDustDevil]

Driving in all that white & wet stuff to get to a place called "Government Camp"? lol The name would be enough to keep me at home! Great photos by the way. Glad you had a safe trip!

 

[Heliman]

I never did get into skiing. As a youngster with a church youth group we would go to Government Camp for tubing, tobogganing and hanging out with the girls. 8) I did enjoy myself just being there. And it is only a 2 hour drive from my sea level rainy home....

 

[CGDustDevil]

I went to Mt Hood Meadows about 15 yrs ago. It was deep powder pretty much everywhere. I'm not good in powder but pretty good on pp. I'm going to Angel Fire,NM in two days...610-mile drive.

nice photos

Meadows is where I set the all time speed record on skis. And the whole time, I was trying to slow down. Once I crashed, the little ski patrol guys swooped down on me and threatened to take my lift pass for skiing too fast. I asked them, "do you think I was trying to go this fast?" :shock:

They have ski police?! LOL It's a serious question - I don't ski. The idea just hit my funny bone!

 

[WAYNO]

They have ski police?! LOL It's a serious question - I don't ski. The idea just hit my funny bone!

They're the people that call the ambulances. And they do call a lot.

 

[Armybrat]

My dad was assigned by the US Army to help run a CCC camp in that area in 1938

 

[Heliman]

Driving in all that white & wet stuff to get to a place called "Government Camp"? lol The name would be enough to keep me at home! Great photos by the way. Glad you had a safe trip!

A more pleasing name is just up the mountain...Timberline Lodge. A really beautiful place.

 

[Poco Oso]

I did some restoration work at Timberline Lodge many years ago. Beautiful place. Great pics WAYNO. Looks like a fun road trip.

 

[Bob Wright]

We had snow here in Memphis this year, almost a full inch deep! And lasted two days!

Bob Wright

 

[powder smoke]

Ski Police is called the Ski Patrol! They are more or less a rescue service but do
talk to the crazies usually teenagers who ski almost out of control. Crashes are
not so bad but if you start to take innocent folks out they'll pull your pass. No
more rides up the Mtn. in other words. ps

 

[Fox Mike]

Pretty country. Last time I was at a ski lodge was 1978. . in June. Was on my honeymoon. Sat at the top of the expert run and pulled the cork on a bottle of wine and 'toasted' the view.

 

[Bear Paw Jack]

Meadows is where I set the all time speed record on skis. And the whole time, I was trying to slow down. Once I crashed, the little ski patrol guys swooped down on me and threatened to take my lift pass for skiing too fast. I asked them, "do you think I was trying to go this fast?" :shock:

That sounds like my experience with skiing. I didn't consider it a good time.

Great pictures though. Wish I could get out.

 

[WAYNO]

a place called "Government Camp"? lol The name would be enough to keep me at home! Great photos by the way. Glad you had a safe trip!

Actually, Government Camp goes back to a time when a government installation would have been considered desirable. The settlers referred to the installation as the government camp, and the name stuck.

Government Camp was given its name by settlers traveling the Barlow Road (Oregon Trail), who discovered several wagons abandoned there by the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen. A sign in front of the town's post office states, "Formerly a camp on the old Barlow Road, the village was named in 1849 when U.S Cavalry troops were forced to abandon wagons and supplies here."

 

[Cholo]

We had snow here in Memphis this year, almost a full inch deep! And lasted two days!

Tennessee has always been made up of really tough people. I have no doubt that you will rebuild!

Cool pics, WAYNO! Most people run from the snow and ice. You drive right into the belly of the beast :mrgreen:

I sure would like to see Mount Hood. When I left Clackamas that morning it was covered in fog. I have a pic of a bare outline. Beautiful country, though!

 

[xtratoy]

I drove through that area last Friday taking a load of lumber over to Redmond OR. Fun times.... :roll:

 

[WAYNO]

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[dougader]

When my daughter was about 5, she was upset that we didn't have any snow at home, which was about 200 ft. above sea level at that time. I told her we only had snow up on Mt Hood so she asked if we could go. I thought about it for about 1 second and said, sure, why not?

Once up on the Mt, she realized how terribly cold it was. She made exactly 1 snowball, stood still for a cell phone picture, and then jumped back in the car for the ride home. We stopped at the Dairy Queen in Damascus, OR, for a candy cane Blizzard on the way home. Great memories!

This is up at Timberline Lodge in May... and a couple miles away on the same day.

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[WAYNO]

When my daughter was about 5, she was upset that we didn't have any snow at home, which was about 200 ft. above sea level at that time. I told her we only had snow up on Mt Hood so she asked if we could go. I thought about it for about 1 second and said, sure, why not?

Once up on the Mt, she realized how terribly cold it was. She made exactly 1 snowball, stood still for a cell phone picture, and then jumped back in the car for the ride home. We stopped at the Dairy Queen in Damascus, OR, for a candy cane Blizzard on the way home. Great memories!




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Nice pictures.

We've always lived an hour from the mountain, and just a little farther from the ocean, so we made trips nearly every weekend. We too, spent many weekend days up in the snow while the kids were growing. And they too, complained of the cold after a short time. 8) And the Dairy Queen in Rhododendron was our stop on the way home. Days that I cherish.