April 22, 2007 - Mt Hood Meadows

Went to Meadows on Sunday to use our free lift tickets courtesy of the Warren Miller flick from earlier in the year.  We arrived to about 6 inches of fresh powder with all the lifts running.  After some initial avy work by the ski patrol, Heather Canyon opened up.  There was some early sun, but it yielded to fog and snow for the remainder of the day.  Upon entering the canyon, one could hear much hooping and hollering in the distance.  The lines were endless, deep and fast.  Ski patrol was sucessful in getting some slopes to slide earlier in the day higher up.  Towards the afternoon it warmed up some, and the slopes were less stable so we headed into the trees of the lower canyon.  We did get to enter Clark Canyon, which has more of the same as Heather, but is more isolated.  Here's a few pictures (though the weather wasn't the best for pics...)