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Business is great at Mt. Bachelor and with the new Cloudchaser lift, Mt. Bachelor has a bright future – if it continues to snow.  The Source Weekly’s Brian Jennings caught up with Mt. Bachelor President John McLeod who talks about how he wound up in Central Oregon from a pristine beach in Australia.
 

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Source Spotlight: Mt. Bachelor President John McLeod

by Brian Jennings, The Source - Bend, Oregon
January 30, 2017

<h1>Source Spotlight: Mt. Bachelor President John McLeod</h1> <p class="byline">by Brian Jennings, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />January 30, 2017</p> <p>Business is great at Mt. Bachelor and with the new Cloudchaser lift, Mt. Bachelor has a bright future - if it continues to snow. &nbsp;The Source Weekly's Brian Jennings caught up with Mt. Bachelor President John McLeod who talks about how he wound up in Central Oregon from a pristine beach in Australia.<br /> &nbsp;<br /> </p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"> <div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://www.youtube.com/embed/nIqSRcIhK9k </div> </figure> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/source-spotlight-mt-bachelor-president-john-mcleod-2779390/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=22716&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/source-spotlight-mt-bachelor-president-john-mcleod-2779390/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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