Mt. Hood Back-Country by Daniel

Elisif, Jason, Nat, Pam and I went up to Mt. Hood on a blue bird day for some back country Tele / snowboarding. After stopping off at the classic doughnut shop (yumm) we were on our way to the mountain. We put our skin / snow shoes on and hiked approximately 2.5 miles up Heather Canyon which is located just east of Mt. Hood Meadows ski resort located on the South East face of Mt. Hood.
We climbed a ridge to gain altitude and we climbed out of the tree line at 6,000 feet when the ridgeline opened up into two giant bowels one on the east face and one on the west face. We ate some lunch and chose the west face for our decent.