My third summit of hood and my second time skiing off the true summit. I think I’m done with this route for good haha.

The usual view of Hood from Timberline. I originally intended to ski the Meadows side but it was closed for construction the one day I showed up.

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Southern OR volcanos in the distance, nothing much around here

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Hood looking pretty sad without snow on the rocks

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Devil’s Kitchen in a sorry state

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Stinky fumarole

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Yep the Pearly Gates are definitely out

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The chutes are an underrated steep one in my opinion

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Views of the WA volcanos, man you can’t even see Rainier without squinting very hard. Barely any views to the north either.

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One more looking south at the OR volcanos (Broken Top, Three Sisters, Jefferson)

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Very booted out trail on spring snow, which made “skiing” off the summit and across the ridge pretty precarious

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Onto the good stuff. The first turn is always the hardest!

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Notes

• This was probably ~7 miles and ~5400 feet of vertical gain in a little under 3 ½ hours.