eastern Oregon camping road trip

Some videos of the scenery out in the desert of eastern Oregon:

eastern Oregon video 2

eastern Oregon 3

eastern Oregon road trip

Some photos from my recent 3-day camping road trip out to eastern Oregon:

eastern Oregon photos

Skiing, again

Went skiing yet again on Mt. Hood yesterday, the weekly tradition. As you can see by this photo, the snow is definitely starting to melt, not sure how much longer I'll get to ski up there. Supposedly you can ski on Mt. Hood year round (or at least through most of the summer) because of the glaciers, but I'm not sure if what I've been skiing on is a glacier. I guess I'll find out when I see if it melts.

more skiing videos

Here are a few more videos from cross country skiing again up on Mt. Hood. This time I went up the downhill ski slopes at Timberline Lodge, and got great views both looking down and also of the peak (or at least pretty close to the peak) of the mountain. Mt. Hood is 11,249 feet tall, and where I was at (near the top of one of the ski lifts) was probably around 8,000 feet. I don't think I'll be attempting that last 3,000 feet, it's supposedly kind of difficult!

Mt. Hood video 2

Mt. Hood video 3

Mt. Hood video 4

jumping sequence on Mt. Hood

A series of photos I took jumping in the snow with Mt. Hood in the background. It isn't a proper sequence from the same actual jump, just separate photos that I pieced together...

jumping sequence 2

skiing again on Mt. Hood

More cross country ski photos from today, when I went up to Mt. Hood at Timberline Lodge and ski resort, right on the side of the mountain...

ski photos

ski photos

ski photos

skiing on Mt. Hood

This was actually a week earlier than all the other Mt. Hood photos above...

cross country skiing

Cross country skiing again, at a spot I went to once before, several weeks ago. This time I had a little better luck with the clouds getting out of the way of Mt. Hood:

panorama of Mt. Hood and Timberline Lodge

After skiing, I decided to head up to Timberline Lodge right on Mt. Hood and check out the view. It was pretty awesome in all directions. And since it was higher up in elevation the snow was much better. Next time I want to go cross country I'll think about just heading up here, since it's starting to melt off in the lower places at this point. This might not have been my last skiing of the season after all:

skiing Mt. Hood