Mt. Hood: July 08' #3

Another view of the Mt. Hood, in the clouds.

We had to go to the bandanna route with the intense sun on the snow. Our faces got sun burnt the first day on the snowboards.

The youngster boardin with the masters, Weez and I. Isaac in the white.

Carving down the mountain in July, yeah!!

The board room at Timberline Mountain Lodge. We stayed in one of the bunk rooms.

The last day in the mountains, Friday. Mountain biking and 4-wheeling on mountain jeep trails and hiking some great hiking trails. We accessed a mountain ridge east of Mt. Hood . We parked the truck on a cliff ledge and mountain biked to some switch-back hiking trails. Weez and I checked out the mountain flowers along the way. The last bike ride was climbing up a jeep trail that followed a cliff band. Then descended back down to the truck. Good times!!

There was still some snow in the deep forest, some we could ride through and some we had to hike-a-bike through.

That was it from Mt. Hood. This was our 3rd trip out here and it is always a thrill. It is the ultimate summer Adventure. With snowboarding, mountain biking, hiking and 4-wheeling on some great mountain terrain, every day was 18 hours of Good Times!!

Mount Hood 08' #2

First lift ride up at 9:00 am, coming out of the clouds.
This was the view from the top, above the clouds.

Boardin into the clouds.

Looking over a rock field into the terrain park.

Mt. Hood goes huge with their summer snowboard terrain park.

After snowboarding all morning, a lunch and a little rest. Mountain biking in the evening.

We did a 22 mile round trip ride on a part of the original Oregon trail. It was through some great, old growth forest double track. Some awesome descending, and what goes down must climb back up.

It was a full day in the mountains. Got back to the truck at dusk.

Mount Hood 08'

Mount Hood Snowboard Limo.

Descending the mountain road down from Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood, 9 miles, down and back up. On Monday.

A Trip From The Past: MT. HOOD, OREGON (summer of 2006)

Gunnar.

Weez

Glacier, Weez, Gunnar

Gunnar checking for crevasses. This was a great trip, hiking up Mt. Hood in the morning with Gunnar the dog. Snowboarding down. Grabbing lunch, then mountain biking or 4-wheeling in the afternoon and evening. This trip was in the month of August, 2006.

Yours Truly

A little snack before the snowboard back down after the hike up.