Across Oregon’s mountains, the snow is piling up. Roughly halfway through meteorological winter, after several ski resorts opened early, in many places, the snowpack is having a good year.

Oregon's snowpack jumped to 144% of normal as of Thursday, the best in the western United States, following a series of cold winter storms that blanketed the state's mountains in white.

Oregon is starting the year with more snow ... enough cool air brought a deep layer of white across the Cascade Mountains. Snowpack in the Mount Hood area and Central Cascades is 112% to 133% ...

Even after a relatively dry January, Oregon’s snowpack is still piling up across the state’s mountains and ski resorts. At Mt. Bachelor in Bend, base depth — or the average depth of snow on ...

In the mountains, a drastic decline in snowpack would lead to drought and more severe wildfire seasons. The lack of snow would also have an impact on Oregon’s winter sports industry. Mt.

(KOIN) — This winter brought a mix of extremes to Oregon’s Cascade ... preserve snowpack, and provide great conditions for outdoor recreation in the mountains. The month of March alone brought ...

Right now, conditions are such that Oregon looks well-positioned heading into summer. Cascade snowpack is above average, along with winter precipitation statewide. That's less true in Washington ...

A winter storm currently hitting Washington and Oregon could cause "dangerous ... a variable and weak snowpack and a busy weekend in the mountains could not only "easily trigger" an avalanche ...

"It is a continental-size lake stored in the rocks at the top of the mountains, like a big water tower," study co-author Leif Karlstrom, an earth scientist at the University of Oregon, said in a ...

By Yan Zhuang The authorities on Tuesday recovered the bodies of two backcountry skiers who were killed in an avalanche in the Cascade Mountains in Oregon the day before, officials said.