Mount Hood: Summit Ski via Palmer Glacier (April 98)
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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
Our party of six met near the day lodge at 8 AM. Three people (the telemarkers) decided to start skiing up right away, while the rest of us (the randonnee skiers) had a different plan. We'd get a leisurely breakfast in the lodge, then catch the first lift up at 9 AM. With any luck, we'd have time to get several lift served runs in before meeting the telemarkers at the top of the Palmer Lift (8500 ft / 2600 m). Here I'm riding the Magic Mile lift up from Timberline Lodge, with the Palmer Lift above angling up and right. The large knob visible just below the summit is Crater Rock, a volcanic plug in the collapsed remnant of the summit crater.
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