Sunrise on Mount Hood Morning Runs on the Lifts Skiing Up the Palmer Glacier Steaming Fumaroles in the Crater The Hogsback of Mount Hood The Summit of Mount Hood View North of the Eliot Glacier Our Group on Summit of Mount Hood Looking Down at Timberline Skiing Above the Bergschrund on Hood Upper Terminal of the Palmer Lift Evening Light on Mount Hood

The rest of the ski down was uneventful. The snow was turning a bit slushy, so I rushed down ahead of the group hoping to catch a few more lift served runs on the firmer groomed slopes. I managed to get in three more runs before my will finally gave out. The new Palmer lift, a high-speed quad, is quite interesting. The upper station (shown here) is inside a building which is nearly buried by over 30 feet (10 m) of snowpack, despite the fact that this was a fairly average snow year. The lift towers (not shown) are pretty cool too, they are massive tripod structures instead of the standard single pole.