The mountain will be a madhouse today, because the conditions have changed for the better and the goods have been delivered! Swing on in for ski rentals, snowboard rentals, snowshoes rentals, or nordic rentals to take advantage of the new snow! Ambient conditions at Meadows say 25 degrees at the base, and 19degrees at the top of Mt. Hood Express. Winds will beGroom is light powder over packed powder. Off-piste you will find powder with wind drifted deep powder stashes over a packed powder base. The heavier snow we saw is mostly covered up. Expect another 2 to 4 inches of fresh powder by closing. Moderate west winds should decrease later today. Visibility is decent down on the lower slopes with the cloud/fog bank sitting around the top of Vista. Patchy fog will be found in-between.
Timberline parking will be full early, so make sure to plan on parking in Government Camp and taking the shuttle up. Here’s what Meadows has to say about conditions: ” We’ve seen heavy, “Cascade Concrete” at times the past week. We’ve seen stormy conditions that shut down chairs. We’ve seen variable conditions that only Mt. Hood can offer up. Today, we see powder, and the pow is good. Very good!! This is due to a lower temperature (currently running at 20 deg, mid-mountain) and freezing level than we’ve seen the past few days. Some additional accumulation over night, but mostly we see moderate west winds blowing the powder around. As for the weather today, we do expect some snow showers on and off but most of it should fall during the morning. ”
As for rentals for today, we are first come first serve!