Skiing during an extreme heat wave at Mount Hood It might seem like a long time ago now ... Located in one of the most ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Mt. Hood currently has a peak snowpack of 63 inches or 5.25 feet, the second-deepest snowpack in the state, data recorded by the USDA Natural Resources Conservation ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Northwest Avalanche Center has issued an avalanche warning for Mount Hood, the west slopes of the Washington Cascades and the Stevens and Snoqualmie passes until 6 p ...

Many of the glaciers and snowfields on Mount Hood are named after explorers and mountaineers, including Newton Clark, Elijah “Lige” Coalman, Henry Coe, Thomas Eliot, Rodney Glisan and Joel Palmer.

On clear days, you can see snowy Mount Hood, the highest mountain in Oregon (at 11,239 feet), from Portland. Mount Hood is the region's prime skiing area, with numerous powdery downhill and cross ...

Snowpack in the Mount Hood area and Central Cascades is 112% to 133% of normal, while it's even snowier in the southern and eastern parts of the state. The snow arrived early in the mountains this ...