Thanks for the comment Noah. I’m sure Mt. Hood Meadows is a great place during the week when conditions are good. Sorry my timing was not better. For a variety of reasons the business idea doesn’t seem to be workable. For now the best solution seems to be to do it manually using Open Snow as the first level sorting tool. More work/time but still worth the effort to get great snow conditions.
I love the idea. As one of those groups of guys sitting around lamenting the lack of powder and a cancelled trip to Jackson Hole that was initially just postponed -- you did a good job describing the challenge of ski travel. That said, even this great idea doesn't account for massive high pressure ridges that mean that NOWHERE gets snow over a multi-week period. Had you picked the first week of February for a ski trip, well, good luck -- unless you happened to be up in the Canadian rockies and even then many areas got little and it then went down to -20 -- so I think the scheme would also have to account for the possibility that maybe you do end up going wherever the grooming is best if there is no powder.
As a Mt. Hood Meadows season pass holder, sorry about your experience here -- we're sadly far to intimately familiar with the challenges of getting slightly too high temperatures and seeing our snow forecasts wash away what snow we had far too many times. We also wish the parking situation was better and that we'd been able to advise you to just park at HRM. Glad you made it up to Baker though, they do consistently have some of the deepest snow anywhere and it's a truly unique ski experience at the very dead end of a long road.
Thanks for the comment Noah. I’m sure Mt. Hood Meadows is a great place during the week when conditions are good. Sorry my timing was not better. For a variety of reasons the business idea doesn’t seem to be workable. For now the best solution seems to be to do it manually using Open Snow as the first level sorting tool. More work/time but still worth the effort to get great snow conditions.
Damnit wrote a long comment that seems to have been deleted -- thanks for the great post though!
I love the idea. As one of those groups of guys sitting around lamenting the lack of powder and a cancelled trip to Jackson Hole that was initially just postponed -- you did a good job describing the challenge of ski travel. That said, even this great idea doesn't account for massive high pressure ridges that mean that NOWHERE gets snow over a multi-week period. Had you picked the first week of February for a ski trip, well, good luck -- unless you happened to be up in the Canadian rockies and even then many areas got little and it then went down to -20 -- so I think the scheme would also have to account for the possibility that maybe you do end up going wherever the grooming is best if there is no powder.
As a Mt. Hood Meadows season pass holder, sorry about your experience here -- we're sadly far to intimately familiar with the challenges of getting slightly too high temperatures and seeing our snow forecasts wash away what snow we had far too many times. We also wish the parking situation was better and that we'd been able to advise you to just park at HRM. Glad you made it up to Baker though, they do consistently have some of the deepest snow anywhere and it's a truly unique ski experience at the very dead end of a long road.