trip report

Leisure Time: Mt. Hood Jones Team trip

July 23, 2021

A collage of black and white ski photos on film strips.

Photos by Andrew Miller / Video by Greg Weaver, Tyler Malay

Join the Jones crew for a summer shred celebration with some snowboarding, skateboarding, surfing and camping in Oregon.

After almost eight months on the winter grind the Jones crew gathered one last time to celebrate a successful and safe winter. There is no better place on earth to relax and enjoy some summer leisure and board time than Mt Hood, Oregon. From the top of the Palmer glacier, to the endless concrete skateparks and peaky waves of the northern coast, Harry Kearney, Garrett Warnick, Timmy Taussig, Forrest Shearer, Robin Van Gyn, Frank Knab, Marissa Krawczak along with special guests Hagen Kearney and Austen Sweetin joined together for all things shred.

Ski resort with snowy mountains and a chairlift under a blue sky.

June views from the life headed up to shred Palmer Glacier, Mt Hood, Oregon.

Silhouettes of four people on a ski lift against a bright background.

Opening day on the Palmer lift.

Snowboarder performing tricks on a snowy slope against a blue sky.

Looks like Harry Kearney ready for some summer surfing. Here channeling his best John John impression on the Mind Expander.

After three scouting flights we were finally able to scout one of the zones we had identified on the map. Our perspective of the terrain had been a bit off though. The zone we had in mind was actually too steep to ride. What I thought would be perfect spines were actually just huge cliffs!

But to our surprise, the next zone over that I had thought would be too small was actually perfect. The terrain would be plenty big enough once we were standing on top of it. Even when you go in knowing everything you see on the map will be much bigger in reality, you still get tricked every single time.