Skiing, snowshoeing, and adventure in the Northwest and beyond
Skiing, snowshoeing, and adventure in the Northwest and beyond
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As we do every year, we’ll be putting up the annual firewood supply and preparing the cabins for the upcoming winter season. Bring clothing appropriate to expected weather conditions, sturdy work boots, gloves, water and a willingness to help prepare the cabins for winter use. We’ll also need splitting mauls and chain saws. Bring a […]
Tilly Jane Wood Haul Read More »
We have several trips this upcoming ski season and plan on improving the trails that we will be skiing on there. For more info and to volunteer contact: Ken Wenzel 503.297.2958 skiwenzel@hotmail.com.
Walton Lake, Ochoco Mountains Trail Tending Read More »
PDX Hiking 365; program download Fall is here and winter is on its way! It may seem like hiking season is over, but in fact there are many great hikes out there—the trick is, just knowing where to go. Join us for a presentation on the best hikes of fall in winter with Matt Reeder,
Help with ONC outreach! We need people to help at an informational table at REI on three Saturdays in November, Nov. 10th and 24th at the downtown Portland REI and Nov. 17th at the Tualatin REI. ONC-PDX has made arrangements with REI in Portland to help build our membership. Can you help out? Shifts are
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Help with ONC outreach! We need people to help at an informational table at REI on three Saturdays in November, Nov. 10th and 24th at the downtown Portland REI and Nov. 17th at the Tualatin REI. ONC-PDX has made arrangements with REI in Portland to help build our membership. Can you help out? Shifts are
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Trip Rating: Easy to Intermediate Ski Basecamp: Sunriver, OR When it’s time to start skiing or finish hiking—as the case may be—ONC does it in Sunriver. This year, we’ll include a snow dance as well! Eight of us will stay in a comfortable house in this resort community 20 miles south of Bend, where we
Thanksgiving Triathlon 2018—Ski, Hike, Turkey Dinner! Read More »
Help with ONC outreach! We need people to help at an informational table at REI on three Saturdays in November, Nov. 10th and 24th at the downtown Portland REI and Nov. 17th at the Tualatin REI. ONC-PDX has made arrangements with REI in Portland to help build our membership. Can you help out? Shifts are
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Let’s ski up West Leg Road, the original road that led to Timberline Lodge. The trail starts near Government Camp at about 4,000 ft. and goes up gaining altitude and hopefully more snow. This makes it a good trail to do early in the season. If we go all the way to Timberline, it is
West Leg Road, Mt Hood Read More »
Ski 4-7 miles round trip on easy to moderate terrain along the Bennett Ridge Trail. Bring lunch. Meet at McMenamin’s Edgefield, west parking lot for an 8:30 a.m. carpool departure. Take I-84 to Exit 16 (Wood Village,) right turn to first stoplight, then left on Halsey for about half a mile, then right into McMenimin’s.
Bennett Pass, Mt. Hood Read More »
Northwest Glaciers Glacier studies in the western US, exclusive of Alaska, dates to the early 1870s, when they were first ‘discovered’ by science. But the discovery was somewhat ‘controversial.’ In the following decades a gold rush of other glacier ‘discoveries’ spread across the West. After the turn of the century much of the glacier research