FREE Mt Hood Backcountry Guide.

There are lots of people that could use a road map😉

After living in Manhattan for two years, I find the complaints about Portland and Seattle traffic and other urban overcrowding problems to be hilarious.

Life in the PNW is gloriously uncrowded, polite, cheap and easy.  The Cascades are incredible.  Appreciate them.

Sure, everything is relative, but I choose to make PDX relative to PDX and Hood relative to Hood. Of course both look better to Manhattan and Hunter Mountain, but both look considerably worse to the PDX and Hood of 20 years ago.

The Cascades are incredible and there are so many places to go without a sole to be found for miles if you are willing to put in the work. There is just less and less of that than their use to be on Hood. It's not a complaint. It's fact. Again, it doesn't stress me either way because I either except the fact that I will be sharing terrain with lots of others, choose to go somewhere else or put in the extra distance to get away from the crowds.

It's amazing how many people you leave behind by just moving 30 more minutes up a ridge or crossing one ridge over. Newton is a great example of this in both ways. Drop in at the main line on a Saturday and you are going to be descending on top of people and fighting for fresh turns. Keep on heading up the ridge 30- minutes or cross over to Gnarl and you are likely to have multiple lines to yourself.

PNW skiers might want to let go of thinking they are totally unique and entitled to solitude within a short drive of a city.

Start learning share and behave in a way that allows other people to enjoy our mountains even when there are lots of them.

Thanks for helping me grow up!😋😉

Thanks for the incredible resource for us out-of-towners who occasionally come down to schralp on ol' Wyeast!

Man people on Mt. Hood are whinny. The whole west-northwest side of the mountain is still empty... I'm sorry you can't get solitude within 2.5 hrs travel from your car... Welcome to all touring locations within a 2 hr drive of a major metropolitan. I for one welcome Patrick's abdication from the position of top mt hood backcountry alpha. Perhaps this thread will reveal the new top mt hood backcountry alpha.
Accept the future my friends, weekend virgin slopes on Mt. Hood are gone unless you want to get up early or go camping. It is better to congregate and create community then to bicker about making skiing great again.