Every day your fellow Mt. Hood Meadows team members are hard at work getting the area ready for our guests. Prior to 9:00am the area is not ready for public. Many hazards exist including but not limited to: Avalanche hazard reduction operations, slope grooming, winch grooming, park grooming, park set up, hill set up and hazard marking, snow machine traffic etc. As a participant in a Meadows Learning Center Early Up Clinic you agree to the following:
On-hill Clinic Conduct
- Follow any instructions from lift and/or mountain staff
- Pass through RFID gates when loading chair
- Adhere to The Responsibility Code at all times
- Take extra caution when loading and unloading lift as operators will be focusing on setup tasks
- No straight running except on near flat terrain
- No horseplay
- Clinic group must stay on designated groomed runs until mountain is open to public; clinic leader will monitor radio traffic and on-hill traffic to determine when deviation from designated runs is permitted
- Participants must stay with the clinic group – no exceptions
Clinic Procedures
- You MUST SIGN UP PRIO to the day of the clinic either on the Instructor Portal or with a supervisor
- Participants MUST BE in uniform
- Clinic group to meet ON SNOW at the Adult Lesson Corral to review protocols
- Clinic group to load Buttercup at approximately 7:55am as one group – NO INDIVIDUAL LATE LOADS WILL BE ALLOWED
- Clinic groups will meet at the top of Buttercup to discuss the focus of each run; ski/ride the entire run & load Buttercup as a group with a chairlift topic
- The clinic will be conducted on groomed terrain only
- If for any reason someone must leave the group they are to return to the base area from Buttercup terrain
- Clinic leader to have a radio in order to communicate with Patrol (Channel 3) and Lift Operations (Channel 1) as needed
- Clinic early load may be cancelled or delayed due to patrol, lift maintenance and lift operations opening procedures