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aznpcskier

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yo when is the best time to go to hood. heard u can easily hike up and camp in parking lot. also heard rumors of Windells having a dig to ride program any news on that?
 
hiking is doable from the lot but the park manager checks passes and kicks you out, windells is nearly impossible to dig and ride, and nobody knows how long the snow will be around. wait till later in the season to figure it out
 
best time to go is early july if you are paying or gonna have a pass. you can sleep in the parking lot and hike up to the parks no problem, i would suggest camping at the parking lot, hiking up, and getting in with the MHSSC guys, they are chill as fuck, if you rake for them for like 1o minutes you can ride there whenever
 
I did it all the time when I was in high school, it's not that bad. There is a hiking path that is rock, you don't have to hike in your ski boots on snow.
 
Ok, I dont know shit about Mt. Hood.

So im guessing there is a resort there? And i could just park at the Villeges/Resorts parking lot? Would i get hassled for that? And then just hike up the mountain to where Windells camp sessions? Do i need a lift ticket or anything? Will the windells people get pissed at me? And wat is the MHSSC?
 
they didnt do snowjam this last summer. and i heard HCSC sold the lap lane they bought back to Tline because they didnt have sufficient use for it. which means less windell campers lapping the park all day
 
If your going to hike, make sure you have a good back pack and your in pretty good shape. A couple days of hiking palmer and your going to be beat
 
Agreed - Have a good pack and be in shape, but it is doable. My brother and I are local and hiked the public park every weekend last summer. Early season the park was on the Mile and we hiked in snow on the climber's trail to the top of the mile. After HCSC was over, they moved the park up to the Palmer to occupy that lane - which required a climb up the paved trail to the Silcox Hut and scrambling over rock to get to the mid Palmer. The climb gets longer throughout the summer.

Timberline actually had a park into December - some of the best sessions of the year were on sunny weekends in late November.
 
lol damn, but there is a parking lot? So i could just park there at night and sleep in my car? And hike up in the morning? Would there be any restirctions on what parts of the mountain i could hit up or what rails/boxes/kickers i could hit?
 
You can park in the overnight section of the Timberline parking lot or park and camp at the Airstrip in Govy. The Timberline summer park is legit - usually a three jump line and a bunch of rails and boxes. Hiking the park is technically illegal - at times the park crew will check passes and eject riders without them - usually on weekends when it is really busy. Like I said earlier, though, my brother and I hiked the park every weekend, but we only got ejected once.
 
tickets last year were 52 bucks a day and 899 for the summer seasons pass. you can sleep in the parking lot for up to two weeks, thats how long forest service lets you occupy one area before you have to move on. and thanks to the gypsys the airstrip is almost impossible to camp at.

not to be the debbie downer, but you kinda just gotta go out there and wing it
 
it has gotten worse. last year there were windows being broken out of peoples cars on a regular basis, attempted gang fights with baseball bats, and some jackass lit a minivan on fire for the 4th of july in the street. damn thing burned for a solid 2 hours before any cops showed up.
 
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