While thousands of downhill skiers are packed into the groomed slopes on the south and east sides of Mt Hood, we’ll take the whole north side for ourselves on this advanced tour. If you haven’t been to Cooper Spur in the winter before, with the right snow, it is magical and definitely worth the climb.
We’ll start at Cooper Spur, put on skins and climb up almost 2,000 feet to Tilly Jane. We’ll take a lunch break there and then push on up to the open slopes above. Hopefully we’ll make it to the Cooper Spur rock shelter at 6,600 feet. Then we have fun as we demonstrate our downhill skiing prowess on the open slopes then to Ghost Ridge and the Telephone Line trail. Finally, we slog in on the road for the last couple of miles.
For this tour you need to have skins and Telemark or AT skis. This is a non-dog tour. Plan on $20/person for carpooling costs
This is a popular tour and gets filled fairly quickly, to be on this tour you must contact me by e-mail in advance: scott.diamond.mail@gmail.com. Once I have received an e-mail I’ll let you know how full the trip is and provide an info packet.