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Still Creek Basin contains 8 new alpine trails will provide connectivity to existing terrain, making our trail system on the lower mountain longer, more fun, and more sheltered from the weather. The cumulative linear feet of new trails equals 5.8 miles, and the new Kruser trail is now our longest trail at roughly 1.5 miles. Other new trails include Mustang Sally, JoJaMi, Brother Beau, Waterline, Buzz Cut, and Uncle Jon's Band. This area also offers new opportunities to explore natural terrain features. Chutes, glades, and tree skiing areas abound in the Still Creek Basin!
Still Creek Basin also brings a new opportunity at Timberline for cross country skiing and snowshoeing. The Snowshoe Trail, a brand new trail from Timberline Lodge, through the woods, to the bottom of the new chairlift, provides a new Nordic experience and gives users the option of continuing downhill to the town of Government Camp via a connection with the West Leg Road, or an uphill return to the Lodge on the new Jeff Flood Express. Single ride lift tickets, sold for just $12, are now offered to cross country skiers and snowshoers. Bring your own equipment, or rent from us in the Wy'East Day Lodge.
Timberline just got a whole lot bigger. Opening the Still Creek Basin terrain adds roughly 220 acres of terrain to our lower mountain. That's 58% more lower mountain terrain than we had before! This provides you with lots of freedom to move about the ski area, and with the new Jeff Flood Express chairlift, capacity and ample uphill transportation is not a problem at Timberline. In fact, it is a luxury. A new chairlift, new trails and wide open spaces, means and a lot less crowding on the slopes, and more time skiing and riding. Timberline is your alternative to crowded slopes!
The new Jeff Flood Express chairlift is named for a special, longtime Timberline employee. As Timberline's head snow groomer for many years, "Floodo" took great pride in laying down the corduroy and making sure the slopes were in top form every day. He also was known as a pioneer of shaping freestyle terrain. His innovation and hard work went on to be appreciated by the growing snowboard industry as well as some of the world's top athletes, when Jeff was asked to be on the slope grooming team for both the Winter Olympics and the Winter X Games. At 6,270 feet long (roughly 1.2 miles) the new Doppelmayr quad chairlift named in his honor is now the longest chairlift on Mt. Hood, and yet, this state-of-the-art high speed lift will whisk you from bottom to top in just a little over 6 minutes!
A Wind Powered Chairlift: Maybe Bob Dylan was right. Maybe the answer is indeed "blowing in the wind!" Environmental protection and stewardship of the environment is one of Timberline's core values. We also think energy conservation is patriotic. Demonstrating our concern for global warming and for America's independence from foreign oil, we have partnered with the Bonneville Environmental Foundation to purchase enough renewable energy credits for power from renewable sources (mostly wind) to power the new Jeff Flood Express.
The installation of this lift gives Timberline the most vertical feet of skiing in the U.S. Pacific Northwest: That's right..second only to Canada's Whistler Ski Area, Timberline features some serious vertical feet of skiing. From the top of Palmer to the bottom of the new Jeff Flood Express is an amazing 3620 vertical feet of pure fun!
Grand Opening: While the new Still Creek Basin and Jeff Flood Express will open just as soon as there is enough snow, we are inviting everyone to celebrate its Grand Opening Weekend on December 8th. and 9th. Music, festivities, commemorative give-aways, and a ceremonial ribbon cutting will mark the occasion. Come join in the fun!
