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| Spring Skiing in January |
In case you haven't noticed, it has not snowed very much in Oregon this winter. Currently we're sitting at around 53% of average in the Willamette Basin. The Deschutes Basin is even worse at 49% of average. So, turn your pajamas inside out, do your snow dance, give away your powder skis...whatever it takes. We need snow.
With warm temps and sunny skies turning last weekend's storm to mush/suncrust/dirt, it seemed skiing anything steep was out of the cards this weekend. So, Jake, Matt, and I headed out to the Maiden Peak Hut on Willamette Pass. We knew there wouldn't be much skiable terrain on the hike, but the goal was to get the hell out of Dodge more than anything. Disclaimer: If you ski with me, the likelihood that a standard ski trip will become somewhat of an adventure is high... Things never seem to go quite as planned.
