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.