Where to ski this summer

Current Ski Areas open this summer in the U.S.

http://unofficialnetworks.com/3-ski-resorts-open-north-america-2-131083/

1. Arapahoe Basin, Colorado

2. Beartooth Basin, Wyoming

3. Timberline Lodge, Oregon

Arapahoe Basin

Have not skied. I have heard that they stay open late in the year sometimes. Often times this depends on how much snow they have.

Beartooth Basin. Looking up towards Chute 2 and White Wall from the bottom of the ski area

Beartooth Basin

Love this place! Skied for 10-days in a row last summer. The ski area has parking on top, below the road is 1,000 vertical feet of excellence. Steep drops, cornices, moguls and a big air park in the bottom. Beautiful mountains nearby, good car skiing in the area. Fantastic summer ski experience! Open May 24th-July 7th this year. Great skiing, great people, lots of fun! Seeing this mountain, skiing what's around there makes me want to relocate to Montana/Wyoming. 

Timberline Lodge October, 2011

Timberline Lodge

The closest ski area to me in the summer. Timberline's terrain in the early part of the summer is underrated. There are some excellent bowl drops and cornices just to the west of the ski area boundary. I enjoyed it very much while at the mountain last weekend. Timberline is also an excellent place to go if you are a racer or park rat. Timberline does an incredible job of grooming during the summer and they keep up with some excellent terrain parks during the summer season. Timberline is open through Labor Day and usually re-opens in mid-October.

Stay Tuned! Mt. Bachelor may be open for a 4th of July weekend ski this year.

Best photos Feb. 1st, 2014-June 1st, 2014. Submission of Unit 7 portfolio. By: Jack Lafeman

One of my favorite recent photos. Notice the lighting effects showing the fresh, untouched snow on the mound up higher.

A recent picture of Mt. Bachelor from the south side in a late spring setting. I felt this one could use a brightness/contrast adjustment.

 First tracks at Willamette Pass this season.

A heavily edited picture. Originally a picture of snow on trees. The black areas are snow and blue sky in the background. The red shows sections of trees that are not snow covered. Used a predator filter for this one and I feel it was highly successful.

Diamond Peak. Perhaps my favorite of Diamond Peak from this year. The main change I made to this one, is that I turned down the brightness a little bit to show that it was taken in the evening.

Woosker on the roof of my shed. Changed the brightness setting and added a small amount of blur to the photo.

Spencer's Butte Eugene, Oregon. Added a pressionist filter to the photo which made the photo less bright, which was an issue with this photo. It also blurred the photo slightly.

The Three Sisters, Oregon this February. I brightened the photo up to try and make some of the rocks less obvious and also to make the snow and mountains not look quite as icy as they actually were that day.

The Three Sisters from a slightly different angle and at a different time of year. I put a softglow filter on this photo which made the rocks stand out slightly more.

The Cirque Bowl at Mt. Bachelor. I added the coffee stain filter to this photo because I feel that it draws your eyes to a certain place on the photo and puts emphasis on certain sections of the photo.