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| Jake hiking into the NW Bowl of Mt. Washington |
I’ll be honest: every time I wake up at 4:00am to go ski something, I ask myself “why am I doing this?” Usually I’m waking up in the back of my car, or cowboy camped at a dusty trailhead. I’m under slept, under hydrated, and cold. It would be just as easy to roll over, and go back to bed. For some reason, I never do.
Well, this morning I woke up at 4:00am in the back of my car, and I asked myself the usual question. I was camped near the Mt. Washington trailhead with my long-time ski partner Jake. I was under-slept and under-hydrated. But at least I wasn’t cold. That’s because it's June and Oregon is in the middle of the closest thing we get to a heat wave (it was 92 in the valley today). I’m guessing the NW bowl has about another week before its no longer worth skiing (assuming the heat remains the same).
We were on the trail by around 5:00am.
