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Central Oregon Avalanche Center Expands to Forecasting 4 Days a Week This Season

The Central Oregon Avalanche Center (COAC) is looking to expand its operation as more skiers and snowboarders head into the backcountry this season. Mt. Bachelor is requiring parking permits this season and Bend has been seeing a steady increase in population which will cause inexperienced backcountry skiers and snowboarders to head into the Central Oregon backcountry. Currently, the COAC does […]

Avalanche

Dominic Gawel | December 10, 2020

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Skiing the PNW – The Best Months to Ski Oregon and Washington

Skiing in Oregon and Washington can be incredible – volcanoes and glaciers allow for skiing year round, moisture-filled snow sticks to steeper faces, 10,000′ to 14,000′ mountains rise up from sea level making for some seriously long descents, and the area receives hundreds of inches of snow annually. So when is the best time to ski in this area of […]

Conditions Report

Jenah MacGrain | September 5, 2020

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Mount Bachelor, OR Report: STILL Rad Today

Report from January 13, 2020 Visibility was at an all-time low today! However, the snow was sooooooo goooood that you didn’t need to see where you were going if you had enough speed! It was a ‘point and shoot’ kind of day… AGAIN! We headed up the mountain road early this morning and Sierra was nice enough to let us […]

Conditions Report

Chad Walker | January 14, 2020

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Usher in Winter With All Your Friends at 10 Barrel Brewing’s Pray For Snow Parties

Brought to you by 10 Barrel Brewing Even though it’s only October, if you have skiing and snowboarding on the mind, it’s OK. You’re not crazy and you’re not alone. In fact, 10 Barrel Brewing knows just how to help. They’re hosting “Pray for Snow” parties at their brewpubs in Boise, Idaho on 10/26 and Bend, Oregon on 11/9. Grab […]

Industry News

Mike Lavery | October 25, 2019

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Friday Fun: Top 9 Ski Resort Breweries in the United States of America

Having a good brewery in your ski town is key. If you have a good brewery in town, you worship it. If you don’t, you long for one. USA Today put together there list of the best ski resort breweries in the USA and Bend, Oregon’s Dechutes Brewery took top honors. Bend is located adjacent to 9,068-foot Mt. Bachelor ski resort and its 463 inches of average annual snowfall. After a solid powder day, […]

Friday Fun

SnowBrains | September 20, 2019

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Top 5 Ski Towns in North America:

What makes a great ski town? For us its a combination of the skiing, nightlife, and extra recreation. Towns that offer not only great mountains but also endless fun. We put together a list of mountain towns that we think offer the best of everything. North America is lucky enough to be loaded with tons of great mountain towns each […]

Backcountry

Jake Rubnitz | March 8, 2018

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Promising Young Californian Surfer Suffers Life-Threatening Head Injury Whilst Snowboarding

A young up-and-coming Laguna Beach, CA surfer who was moving up the competitive ranks at amateur surf contests is in a medically induced coma after suffering a near-fatal head injury while snowboarding in Oregon, reports ocregister.com. Brayden Belden’s snowboarding accident happened on Feb. 20, and he was airlifted from the mountain to a hospital in nearby Bend. Doctors hurried to stabilize […]

Steven Agar | February 28, 2018

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Bend, Oregon = Highest Brewery per Capita in USA + 463” of Snowfall per Year

“Among cities in beer-crazy Oregon, Bend now has the most craft breweries per capita. Some locals have started calling this ‘Beer City USA.’ More breweries are opening soon.” – Seattle Times Bend, Oregon has 17 breweries, one great ski resort (Mt. Bachelor), & a population of 80,000. That’s a brewery for every 4,205 humans in Bend. According the the Seattle Times quote above, this gives bend the highest micro-brewery per capita in the nation and the title of ‘Beer City USA.’ This makes Bend an extremely attractive place to visit for all of us snow/beer freaks out there. It doesn’t hurt that Mt. Bachelor averages 463” of snow each winter, either… […]