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More from Iron Horse

February 8th, 2010     Tags:, , ,

One more view along the Iron Horse State Trail. This one is a view of Keechelus Lake looking North.

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Keechelus Lake

February 7th, 2010     Tags:, , ,

The Iron Horse State Trail runs along the Keechelus Lake. Here is the view of the lake while I was skiing South on the trail.

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John Wayne Pioneer Trail

February 6th, 2010     Tags:, , ,

Here is another view of my ski trip along the Iron Horse State Park Trail. The trail is also called the John Wayne Pioneer Trail. It is a 17 mile old railroad bed that you can bike on in the summer. Part of the trail is groomed during the winter.

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Skiing along Iron Horse

February 5th, 2010     Tags:, , ,

During a weekend in January, I headed up to Snoqualmie Pass to do some Nordic Skiing. I stopped at Hyak Sno-park to ski along the Iron Horse State Park Trail.

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Ray Benson Sno-Park

January 28th, 2010     Tags:, , ,

On our way home, stopped at Ray Benson Sno-park for a couple hours of skiing. It was more cloudy than the other dayz as you can see from the photo. Ray Benson Sno-park is at the Santiam Pass near Hoodoo Ski Resort. This is a view along one of the trails I took near the sno-park.

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Swampy Nordic Area

January 24th, 2010     Tags:, , ,

Here is the view at the beginning of the Swampy Lakes Nordic Area. Right now, it is my favorite place to nordic ski.

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The girls are going skiing

January 24th, 2010     Tags:, , , ,

After Trista got back from 2 hours of skiing, she took Kalin out skiing for a short time on the trail. Here they are starting at Swampy Sno-park.

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Nordeen Ski Warming Shelter

January 22nd, 2010     Tags:, , , ,

The second day, I went nordic skiing from the Swampy Sno-park to the Nordeen Shelter. The Nordeen shelter sits atop a small ridge overlooking the tree filled valley below. The shelter was built in 2007 after the old one burned down.

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Learning to ski

January 21st, 2010     Tags:, , , ,

This was the trip that Kalin learned to ski. Here is Kalin on the first day of skiing. She seemed to like to ski and want to practice each time to went to the Sno-park.

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Ski Shelter at Swampy

January 20th, 2010     Tags:, , ,

There are several snow shelters in the Swampy Nordic Ski Area. This is one of them, which is actually right next to the Swampy Sno-park. The photo was taken from the parking lot.

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Skiing at Swampy

January 19th, 2010     Tags:, , ,

During our stay in Bend, we spent most of our time at the Swampy Sno-park. Swampy is a couple of miles East of Mt Bachelor along the cascade highway. It is at about 6000 ft and had about 4 feet of snow on the ground. Here is one of the trails we skied on at Swampy.

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Trista at Pocket Creek

January 16th, 2010     Tags:, , , ,

Here is Trista skiing at Pocket Creek on a snow covered forest road.

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Pocket Creek Skiing

January 15th, 2010     Tags:, , ,

On the third day of your trip, Trista and I went skiing at Pocket Creek Sno-park. Pocket Creek Sno-park is on the East side of Mt Hood just North of Teacup Sno-park, a popular nordic skiing destination on Mt Hood.

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Skiing around Trillium Lake

January 14th, 2010     Tags:, , , ,

Here is Trista skiing around Trillium Lake with Mt Hood in the background

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Mt Hood from Trillium Lake

January 13th, 2010     Tags:, , ,

After watching the sunrise at Timberline Lodge on Mt Hood, we headed down to Trillium Sno-park to go nordic skiing. Here is another view from the South end of Trillium Lake of Mt Hood.

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Mt Hood with full sun

January 12th, 2010     Tags:, , ,

Here is Mt Hood in full early morning sun.

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Mt Hood With Sun

January 11th, 2010     Tags:, , , ,

Here is Mt Hood with some sun.

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Trillium by day

January 10th, 2009     Tags:, , , , ,

Mt Hood from a frozen Lake Trillium

Yesterday, I decided to spend the day skiing and snowshoeing on Mt Hood. My first objective was to explore the Trillium Lake ski trails.

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Christmas at La Pine

January 7th, 2009     Tags:, , , , , , , ,

Old Barn in the sun

For Christmas, we decided to rent a place in the mountains to do some skiing, snowshoeing, and sledding with the kids. We found place in La Pine that was $690 for the week.

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