Submitted by USFS, Pacific Northwest Region, Deschutes National Forest VOLUNTEER RECRUITMENT EVENT TO BE HELD NEXT WEEK BEND –The Deschutes National Forest in partnership with the non-profit stewardship organization, Discover Your Forest, is hosting a Volunteer Recruitment Event next week. Volunteers are needed to support educational and interpretive programs at Newberry National Volcanic Monument, Mt […]
Mt. Bachelor
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Shiny & New
Mt. Bachelor gets a facelift
Although it’s still early fall and Mt. Bachelor is bare, the opening day of ski season is set for Wednesday, Nov. 25, according to Spencer Weimar, marketing director for Mt. Bachelor Ski Resort. During its 58th season, the resort will host new and classic annual events. Weimar says the first event of the season will […]
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More Downhill
Mt. Bachelor Bike Park’s sophomore year is bigger and badder
At the end of last summer, the crews at the newly-opened Mt. Bachelor downhill bike park heard a lot of different opinions. Some riders told them that Lava Flow Trail, the easiest sloping trail, was too fast. But other riders begged for something a bit more gnarly, and to turn up the challenges. And, in […]
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Nicolas Yopp Retires
After a disappointing crash, he will miss this year’s Deaflympics
It was Friday the 13th after all. Nicolas Yopp was freeriding off Outback Chair at Mt. Bachelor when an unexpected bump threw him just slightly off balance. A skier since as long as he could walk, Yopp is a championship racer and not easily thrown. But he was railing a GS turn at 60 miles […]
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In This Week’s Issue: Shaking Up the Status Quo
It is so easy to romanticize that winters were piled higher with snow when I was a kid, and that winter then was more, well, winter. Sadly, though, the data does back up these perceptions. The world is getting warmer—and, one of my favorite winter activities, skiing, seems to be becoming an endangered activity. For […]
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Growing Like a Downhill Snowball
Sustainability at ski resorts is ever more common, but is it too late?
This is not the winter that the ski industry, nor skiers, in Oregon wants—and, more broadly, many are worried that this year is a sign of winters to come. Mt. Ashland, which was closed all last season, has eeked open for a few days, and snow coverage at Hoodoo has been spotty. Nordic ski areas—notably […]
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What Goes Up
Vertfest celebrates a boom in backcountry skiing
“It’s really a festival of fun,” says Stirling Cobb, the events and sponsorship manager at Mt. Bachelor. He’s talking about Vertfest, one of the few winter carnivals to focus on backcountry skiing, which returns this weekend to Central Oregon for its third consecutive year. “It’s all about the mountain lifestyle where like-minded people can come […]
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Central Oregon’s New Groove
Singletrack trails open at Wanoga for booming “fat bike” culture
The day before Christmas Eve was a typical winter day: Dozens of kids careened down the sledding hills at Wanoga Sno-Park, screaming with excitement while parents snapped pictures. But, starting on New Year’s Day, there will be a new dimension added to the activities at the popular park: Fat bikes will officially be welcomed. Increasingly […]
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Mt. Bachelor to Open Monday
We just received word from Mt. Bachelor that the resort plans to (partially) open on Monday, Nov. 24! That’s only FOUR days away! Weeeeeeeeeee!
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Baby Steps, and Shooting!
How to start a new sport
From the first snap of the football when the game was invented in 1892, it took seven decades before the first Super Bowl was played. Basketball was slightly quicker to mature; invented in 1891, seven years later there was a national championship when the six existing teams battled for the title (won by the Trenton […]