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This is How Current Glacier Health and the Future of Year-Round Skiing in the Oregon Cascades Looks

South side of Mt. Hood with snow line high above dirt.

A summer skier’s day often starts long before the sun. In the dark, packs are checked, breakfast is hastily consumed, and routes are looked over one more time by headlamp before starting the long ascent to the snow line. Few are around to see dim silhouettes trudge uphill, skis A-framed to their packs and hiking boots kicking up dust as […]
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Morgan Stierman |
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Turns All Year: A Guide for How to Ski Every Month of the Year in North America

Ask any die-hard skier what keeps them up at night in the swelter of July, and odds are they’ll mention three innocent-sounding letters: TAY… Turns All Year. The idea is seductively simple: ski at least once every single month, no matter what the calendar or the weather says. The execution, however, is anything but. It demands early-morning alarms that ring […]
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Clay Malott |
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Employee Skis 12 Straight Months at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, WY

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Below is a blog post from local resort employee, Brandon Garvey, who recently completed 12 consecutive months of lift-accessed backcountry skiing all from Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.  Basking in the afterglow of last year’s record-breaking season, the echoes of 595″ of snow still reverberating, I found myself unwilling to put my snowboard in storage. Why limit the thrill to winter alone […]
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Avatar photo Brent Glogau |
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