Oregon

While many ski towns and ski resorts are laying low, quietly waiting for another winter, plenty of others are turning the volume all the way up with all sorts of kickass music festivals this summer. These 10 are amongst the very best.

Our short spring corn mission was just enough to make us want more.

Skiing doesn't have to stop in the summer—check out these ski camps for that summer fix.

Find late season pow, or at least some corn, at these resorts that haven’t closed yet.

Slopeside live music, wacky costumes, and tons of beer? Sign us up for these spring festivals.

Mt. Hood’s three ski areas are just a short drive from all those hipsters.

Eric Pollard and his dog find freshies.

Seven camps to make you a better skier.

It's what you don't know about legal marijuana that will get you into trouble on the slopes.

Cat Ski Mt. Bailey delivers the goods, even when you can’t actually see them.

Backcountry freestyler Tim Durtschi shows us around his home mountain.

The ten snowiest resorts in North America at this point in the season. All numbers are as of February 10.

August is when the itch gets the worst. Hot, lazy days lose their shine. The buzz of the air conditioner starts to burn your eardrums. And winter feels SO far away. And it is, but a plane ticket or a long hike could change that. Here’s where you can get your midsummer fix.

Hut-to-hut touring is well known in the world of backcountry skiing. But more and more of these mountain refuges are opening their trail systems to mountain bikers in the summer months. So why not trade in your skins for wheels, and deep powder for single track?

At these resorts the lifts run through the summer to access some of the best high-altitude disc-golf courses in the country.

Need to know where to find singletrack or lift-accessed downhilling? Here's a directory of all the mountain bike parks at ski resorts in the U.S. and Canada.

Mt. Baker, Mt. Bachelor, and Crystal Mountain are enjoying consistently deep days. There's still winter yet.

Check out the winning piece of snoetry.

What does Coolio’s line “Gotta gotta get up to get down” have to do with 2-3 inch-per-hour snowfall rates during the latest western storm?

Mount Hood, Oregon’s biggest summertime ski, snowboarding, skateboarding, and BMX camp, Windells, will see new dry slope airbags and a school credit option at the summer 2010 Windells Camp session. We spoke to camp founder Tim Windell about airbag landings, the Concrete Jungle, and Shaun White.

Mt. Hood, Oregon, is the place to go for summertime ski camps. And they're not just for kids. We've got details on three great summer ski camps—from park-and-pipe to racing to moguls—at Mt. Hood for all ages.

Oregon's Wallowa Avalanche Center opened this fall as the Wallowa Mountains' first-ever avalanche forecaster. If only it'd been open one year ago, it could have saved one man's life.