Mt. Bachelor and Bend

Mt. Bachelor and the city of Bend was our second Oregon ski stop.  Bachelor is a volcano topping out just over 9,000 feet and there is a chair that goes essentially all the way to the summit.  Skiing lift-served laps off the top of a volcano is a very unique experience.  I've hiked a few volcanoes in the Northwest and it almost felt like cheating to ride a chairlift to the top.  Glorious, glorious cheating.

On our first ski day the Summit Chair opened for the first time after the storm that we had caught at Mt. Hood.  That meant another powder surge for us!  Here's the view after a short hike to the summit top.

If you're a skier, you're probably drooling at this photo.

And this one, looking back at the top.

We had lunch and reviewed where we've been.  Since you can literally ski any direction off the top, the resort is huge and sort of intimidating.  Getting lost?  Yeah, that'll happen.

The top gets tons of wind so in places the skiing was awesome, in places it was horrifying.  I had found that the East side the mountain was holding great snow and we skied it together after lunch.

We had just finished skiing from the top waaaaaaay in the distance in this photo.

Can you feel the leg burn yet?

Our second day in Bend was a rest day and after three days of hard skiing, we NEEDED it.  We went wine tasting and eventually out to a local brewery called 10 Barrel.  Bend is know for its breweries and it didn't disappoint.

We enjoyed another great skiing day at Bachelor with more summit laps and believe-it-or-not the discovery of packed powder on the Northwest and Outback chair we had neglected the first day.  Here's a view off the West side with the "Sisters" in the distance.

Bachelor/Bend was a really great stop and we hope to be back if we land in the Northwest.  We left town excited to catch up with Jason and Kaitlyn and family in Tahoe!