6/7/2023 0 Comments Quick tunes mt ashland![]() Offered twice a week, Mount Ashland shares 40 acres of terrain with those wanting to experience the magic of skiing after dark. Though the runs are quick hits, they offer outstanding views and leashed dogs are welcome.įor perhaps the dreamiest descent, check out night skiing. Off the ridges of Grouse Gap many aspects are discernible offering freshies. Be sure to wear a headlamp and reflective clothing to be easily sited by the early morning or late evening snow cat crew. ![]() If the easily accessible side country terrain in the bowl isn’t remote enough for you, uphill traffic is allowed from the parking lot along the arete on the south side of the mountain. Once at the summit, skiers can decide on an array of descents from the ridgeline connecting black diamonds on the cirque and its adjacent chutes, blues headed back to the lodge or something off-piste in a maze of moguls in the woods. Hidden in the shadows, you could spy a coyote, bobcat, chipmunk or Pacific fisher, while chickadees, towhees, hummingbirds, and woodpeckers may make appearances above the tree line. Lighting your way like fluorescent medieval wall sconces, bright lime green Usnia and Wolf lichen adorn the evergreens. ![]() Below your ascending lift chair, white fir, Shasta red fir, and Pondarosa pine line the trails and constitute spicy forested ski lines though, in the midst of winter each will be cloaked in a blanket of snow. Popping onto Ariel, the summit lift, the upshot of a clear day is that the grand flanks of Mount Shasta, Mount Mcloughlin, and other peaks are visible during the ride up and from the top. The entire hill has the feel of an amphitheater with get back names like Aisle one and two, Betwixt, and a scenic showing of alpine biodiversity from each lift ride. Ashland’s trails share names with Elizabethan Era characters like Juliet, Romeo, Brutus, and Tempest. Check out the town for dining, lodging, and a world-renowned bustling arts scene.įollowing in the ski tracks of the famed Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mt. Ashland is no more than a half-hour drive (23 miles) from the hamlet of Ashland, home to Southern Oregon University and the annual, one-of-a-kind cult-classic Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Ashland averages 265 inches of snow per year. An intrusive pluton later carved by glaciers, the mass known as Mount Ashland is composed of diorite, granodiorite in addition to granite-a rocky alpine recipe not unlike that of Yosemite, though at an elevation and on a parallel where it captures far more seasonal snowfall. In the formerly magma, now granitic, igneous heart of Rogue-River Siskiyou National Forest, the Siskiyou Range is a subrange of the Klamath Mountains which cross state lines running from northwestern California into southwestern Oregon. Most terrain is on the intermediate to advanced side and surprisingly technical and challenging. Ashland offers a lot for being community owned. Beginner to expert, this charming winter playground welcomes skiers and snowboarders from near and far with four lifts and over 240 acres of varied terrain including a summit bowl with five chutes, 23 distinct trails, forest glens to ski the trees, and 1,150 feet of vertical drop from peak to parking lot. With a summit at 7,533 feet, Mount Ashland is the highest point, and many say the crown Elizabethan jewel, of the Siskiyou Mountain Range. Rogue Valley locals have been quenching their thirst for powder on Mount Ashland’s steep and deep slopes since the ski area first opened in 1964.
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