2015 Summer Roadtrip: Day 20–Friday—7/3: Sam skiing Mt. Hood, Andrea, Sarah, Ryan snowball fights, hiking, snowman making at Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood (They filmed part of The Shining movie here).

We went to the Mt. Hood ski area at Timberline lodge today. When we first pulled into the Timberline Lodge parking lot, Sam remembered that a few of the scenes of the movie The Shining were filmed here. We rented skis, boots and poles for Sam and then all 4 of us took the chairlift up Mt. Hood. At the top of that chair, Andrea, Ryan and Sarah hiked up a bit higher to a large snow chute and played in the snow, built snowmen, and had several fierce snowball fights!

It was great—especially with the gorgeous view of the over 11,000 ft peak of Mt. Hood towering above. Sam took the next chairlift up and skied in shorts and a t-shirt and fleece gloves. It was great to be snow skiing on July 3^rd. The snow, though a bit slushy, was pretty good. All the runs were upper intermediate and advanced. Twice, Sam skied down very narrow chutes of snow with serious rock obstacles to get to Andrea, Ryan and Sarah. Both times, he “rooster tail” sprayed them with snow by doing a quick ski stop as they were pelting him simultaneously with snowballs. It was so fun. It was a great half day playing and skiing in the snow at Mt. Hood. After that, we had an ice cream in a cute ski town on the way back to our RV park. Once there, we rode bikes and watched the next Harry Potter movie. After grilling Portobello mushrooms and Korean BBQ for dinner, we rode bikes over to the volleyball court and played both badminton and then volleyball with another family. It was a fun adventurous day—especially the snowball fights and skiing in July!!!