Exploring Central Oregon New Years 2017
Kelso, Becca, Mimi, Ben, Mikey, Nikki and I rang in the New Year together in a small cabin blanketed by feet of fresh snow. 2017 marked Nikki and my 5th New Years together, funny enough, 4 of which have been spent with Ben Ipsen. It was quite the crew of cabin gamers, backcountry enthusiast and […]
December 2016 Blast
Looking back at the first month of the 2016/2017 season, it’s been a great month packed with travel and snowboarding. The Cascades are thickly blanketed with over 100 inches of snow, settling in for what we hope to be a long winter. As the Mountains turned white this fall the seasonal snow junkies within us […]
Spring St.Helens Summit and Hip Hit Weekend
The skis went blue over the Northwest during the first week of April. Desperately wanting to take advantage of the dry and unseasonably warm weather for some snow camping, I talked Kelso and Nikki into making plans to ride Mount St.Helens for the weekend. Nikki and I set out solo on Saturday with summit fever. […]
Powder Highway Vacation Couples Style
With BC so close to Oregon, it’s long been a desire of mine to learn more about the snowboarding terrain and ski town living found along the legendary “Powder Highway” in the southern interior of British Columbia. The snowmobile riding in these mountain is arguably the best in the world. Evidence of this is seen […]
February Park Laps With Kelso and Ladd
By February on Mt.Hood, the steady stream of snow storms slowed down enough for the Meadows park crew to finish off their parks. They brought in the STP crew to help shape a Star lift park with two very nicely shaped jumps, followed by some larger rail features. Kelso, Ladd, Nikki and I felt our […]
January Powder Closeout
You can’t ask for weekend weather to line up any better than it did for the closeout of January in the Northwest. Midweek was warm and dumping rain above 9000 feet. By Friday the exiting system was pulling in cold air from the north as well as the next batch of moisture behind it. When […]
Chasing Weekday Powder on Hood
January has brought a continuation of the Northwest El Nino roller coaster weather. Waves of heavy moisture just keep coming but with them comes abnormally fluctuating temperatures. Our base depth on Mt.Hood is over 100 inches now at the base lodge. The mountains are filled in and waiting for cold snaps to align with the […]
New Years 2016 Snowboard Tour Adventure
Nikki and I have spent the past four New Years together now and this was our third in the mountains. Returning from vacation spent with our families, the heavy snows that hit while we were away had started to settling out and the the resort was tracked. We laid eyes on getting out of the […]