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The sun is shining and the leaves are blowing—but if snow lovers have their way, any day now the flakes will fly in the low country as well as the mountains.

Let this Winter Insider issue be something like a rain dance, inviting the best parts of winter to get here, already.

• Is this the year you finally go off-piste? Here are some guidelines to get you started: Backcountry 101
  
• Where to hit the slopes, Hoodoo or Bachelor?

• Need to find out what’s going on? Here’s our Winter Picks.

• We Heart Hockey! A Source writer joins the “D” league and lives to tell about it.

This article appears in Oct 31 – Nov 7, 2018.

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Winter Insider

by Chris Miller, The Source - Bend, Oregon
October 31, 2018

<h1>Winter Insider</h1> <p class="byline">by Chris Miller, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />October 31, 2018</p> <br /> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full aligncenter aligncenter"><a href="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/winter-insider-cover.webp"><img src="https://www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/winter-insider-cover.webp" alt="" class="wp-image-33832" /></a></figure> <p> The sun is shining and the leaves are blowing—but if snow lovers have their way, any day now the flakes will fly in the low country as well as the mountains.</p> <p><b><i> Let this Winter Insider issue be something like a rain dance, inviting the best parts of winter to get here, already.</i></b> </p> <h3 class="content_h3"> <ul> <li>Is this the year you finally go off-piste? Here are some guidelines to get you started: <a href="/bend/backcountry-101/Content?oid=8222044" target="_blank">Backcountry 101<br /> </a></li> <li><a href="/bend/hoodoo-or-bachelor/Content?oid=8222048" target="_blank">Where to hit the slopes, Hoodoo or Bachelor? </a></li> </ul> </h3> <h3 class="content_h3"><a href="/bend/hoodoo-or-bachelor/Content?oid=8222048" target="_blank"></a> </p> <ul> <a href="/bend/hoodoo-or-bachelor/Content?oid=8222048" target="_blank"> </a> </p> <li><a href="/bend/hoodoo-or-bachelor/Content?oid=8222048" target="_blank">Need to find out what's going on? Here's our </a><a href="/bend/winter-calendar/Content?oid=8222058" target="_blank">Winter Picks</a>.</p> </li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="/bend/beacon-to-the-backcountry/Content?oid=8222053" target="_blank">We Heart Hockey</a>! A Source writer joins the "D" league and lives to tell about it.</li> </ul> </h3> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/special-issues-and-guides/winter-insider-8240548/&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=33823&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/special-issues-and-guides/winter-insider-8240548/&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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