PNW Ski Huts

If my "nemesis" the gloriously incompetent NPS can give you a ticket for building a snow kicker at Chinook Pass, you'd probably get life in prison for building an igloo.

Please pardon the thread drift.
This really happened?
I must have missed that TR...
Carry on.

This really happened?
I must have missed that TR...

Thread drift, but yes last spring a TAYer was not ticketed but was told by a NPS Ranger that building a kicker at Chinook pass was not allowed! Search the TR's for last spring and you will find it.

Now back to huts, this is an interesting thread.

You can always dig into the Rangers cabins

There are 2 outfitters working in the Wallowa mountains.

Wing Ridge

Wallowa Alpine Huts

These guys have huts in or near the Wilderness.

I think that igloo idea is pretty darn creative, but I just don't think an igloo could make it through a 3-day pinapple express with 9,000+ FL and inches upon inches of wind-driven rain. Sadly, it's practically guaranteed that we'll have a few of those every year.

However, I think something like that could be super cool in between warming events.

There are 2 outfitters working in the Wallowa mountains.

Wing Ridge

Wallowa Alpine Huts

These guys have huts in or near the Wilderness

I've been to the Wallowa Alpine Huts and the name is a misnomer as they are actually yurts that they put up in the winter months. Very cool set up.
I think the Wing Ridge Hut is a very old miner's or hunters cabin that was grandfathered in but I could be wrong on that one.