Mt. Hood is Oregon's tallest mountain, standing 11,249 feet tall. The Native American tribe called Multnomah calls Mt. Hood Wy'East. Mt. Hood is a volcanic mountain, but it hasn't erupted for nearly 200 years. Some people think it's due for an eruption soon, but that's a pretty hard thing to predict. Mt. Hood has 12 named glaciers, including one called Palmer which skiers can ski on all year. Sometimes the Olympic ski team practices here in the summer so they can ski on real snow.
Mt. Hood is great for all kinds of outdoor recreation. You can go skiing and snowboarding, snowshoeing, and inner-tubing in the winter. Stanley's hoping to go snow tubing this winter. He asked us about 100 times in the car if we could do it...In the summer you can hike or even climb to the summit, camp and do the super fun alpine slide which Rachel got to do last summer when she visited. Stanley's pretty jealous of that - we showed him her picture.
The weather wasn't so great when we were up there this weekend, so Stanley didn't actually even get to see the top of it, but here's a picture for you that I took a few years ago when we went up.
This last picture is just of something interesting that Stanley was checking out. Can you guess what it is?
Scroll down to find out....It's an old bees nest. Did you guess it? Our friends found it in their chimney at the cabin one time! Luckily, Stanley was in no danger because the bees were all gone.
That's it for this week! Hope you have a great week at school! WORK hard and learn lots :)
4 comments:
Did Stanley carve a pumpkin for Halloween?
~Lauren
did Stanley go trick-or-treating and did he dress up?
~Matthew
I think the bees nest looked like a burnt up marshmallow.
~Peyton
sorry it took us so long to write back to the blog! We really enjoy reading about Stanley's adventures!
~Mrs. Work
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