{"id":2465,"date":"2016-01-07T20:45:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T04:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2016-01-07T20:45:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T04:45:26","slug":"the-snow-gods-have-blessed-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/the-snow-gods-have-blessed-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Snow Gods have blessed Oregon"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Jamal Smith \r\nSports editor<\/pre>\n<p>Winter term is officially here, and to the delight of skiers and snowboarders, so is the snow. On Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, snow pounded the valley and Western Oregon University closed its doors.<\/p>\n<p>Although many students might have been upset, skiers and snowboarders rejoiced. Last year, snowfall in the mountains hit record lows. Mt. Hood Ski Bowl had so little snow last year that the resort\u2019s lifts stayed closed the entire season.<\/p>\n<p>This year, however, Ski Bowl already has a base of 68\u201d and all of the resort\u2019s lifts are operational.<br \/>\nBecause Ski Bowl\u2019s elevation is significantly lower than Mt. Hood\u2019s other two resorts, Mt. Hood Meadows and Timberline, Ski Bowl\u2019s snow levels provide a good indication on how much the Snow Gods have blessed Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Monmouth is smack dab in the middle of four ski resorts which provides ski and snowboard enthusiasts multiple viable options for entertainment. Mt. Hood\u2019s three resorts are north east and Mt. Bachelor is to the south. <\/p>\n<p>Mt. Bachelor is a three hour drive from Monmouth, and the mountain has been blasted with powder. With a snow depth of 115\u201d and 243\u201d of total snowfall since Oct. 1, 2015, the mountain has already seen more snow in a few months than all of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Mt. Hood\u2019s three resorts are a little closer in distance to Monmouth than Mt. Bachelor. According to Google Maps, the drive takes a little over two and a half hours, depending on the desired resort.<\/p>\n<p>Mt. Hood Meadows has a base of 79\u201d and Timberline has a base of 89.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Already, in just a few months, snow levels are higher on all four resorts than they were at any point last season, which has diluted skiers and snowboarder\u2019s tears from last year.<\/p>\n<p>Snow has pounded Oregon ski resorts and it is up to you to take advantage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter term is officially here, and to the delight of skiers and snowboarders, so is the snow. On Monday, Jan. 4, 2016, snow pounded the valley and Western Oregon University closed its doors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}