April 19, 2008 – Bend, OR – Today BigBus swerved south from Hood River to Bend after a great week at the Syncline Winery with family Mantone. Gudrun arrived from LA yesterday to travel in our circus for a while. So now there are five.
This post is about a spring skiing jaunt to Mt. Hood last Tuesday where instead of spring skiing we received a serious mountain blizzard. I guess this is normal April behavior for Mt. Hood, so the skiing portion of the program quickly gave way to Hot Chocolate drinking inside Timberline Lodge. Being inside Timberline this time of year is akin to walking into a snow cave. Most of the lodge is drifted over with snow so many 2nd and 3rd story windows are buried under same. See photos above, take note of the Quonset Hut entrance they employ to keep snow from entombing the entire building.
