Welcome to the Meany Lodge Winter Section

Please click any of the links below to go to the section(s) you are interested in. If you are curious about what caused the cancellation of two of our weekends, then click on the storm 2008 image.
Any Suggestions and/or comments about the website, please email Brian or Emilio

• 
  Cat Schedule
• 
  Sport Programs
• 
  Room & Board
• 
  PSIA School
• 
  Winter Stills
• 
  Winter Videos
• 
  Storm 2008
• 
  Storm 2009
• 
  Ski Trip

Come one, come all! Bring your young, your old, your family and your friends and join us at Meany Lodge for this year's winter sport season. You will enjoy many days of alpine and cross-country skiing, snowboarding, great food, great company, relaxation and fun for the family.

With the only grandfathered rope tow in the Pacific Northwest, you travel to the top of the hill and take the plunge in snowboarding, alpine or back country sking. Meany IS the center of lift assisted back country skiing. Here you have access to vast tracks of pristine snow fields, or you can avoid the tow completely and travel through our groomed cross-country area.

For the beginner we have an unique area including a beginner rope tow, lovingly call "Turtle". One can get learn and not be intimidated by fast skier. Around Turtle we have various sloping terrain that you can try and you get proficient on before you tackle the Super Worm or Mach.

For the expert skier or boarder (or those of you who want to become one), the most important words on this webpage are "lift-assisted back-country skiing". Stop for a second and consider the implications

• Without skinning up;
• Without a two hour climb for a fifteen minute run;
• Without spending a night in a snow cave;
• Without a mad early-morning rush to the lifts for the fleeting chance at a run on the freshies;
• Without the cost of a helicopter drop-off;

You can spend your weekend skiing a wide variety of intermediate to expert ungroomed slopes.

Steep open slopes:
Top of "the Lane" is 38 degrees, as steep as you will find inbounds anywhere.

Tree skiing:
"Soffreenia Woods", "Railroad Meadows", "Psychopath", "The Nose " all provide a nice selection of open forested terrain, carefully managed for maximum ski-ability.

Not quite up to the expert stuff:
"South" may be the only true intermediate ungroomed slope in any established ski area, giving powder newbies the chance to experience the magic of skiing the deep stuff under the tutelage of expert instructors who specialize in back-country skiing and boarding.

While our runs are short, the combination of no lift lines and our ridiculously fast tow (called "Mach" - for good reason) makes for as much skiing as you could ever want. Last year one of our top skiers skied 30,000 vertical feet in a single day! So after a week of new snow in the Cascades, come to Meany and spend your weekend carving turn after turn in deep, fresh, unskiied snow and learn why the Meany efficinado's say

"If you can ski Meany, you can ski anywhere."
"Once you have skied Meany, You will never want to ski anywhere else!!"

The lodge and its sports amenities are available during the week between Christmas and New Years Day and every weekend thereafter up through mid-March. We have runs at all levels of experience, up to and including double black diamond. If you don't need any classes, then go for it! But if you need to brush up, check out the Winter Sports Program (January through March). More information on the programs and registration links can be found on the Winter Sports Programs page.

Let's give you an example of a stay at the lodge: you arrive on Saturday morning, via the Tom Cat, find a comfortable bunk and stow your gear, then go hit the slopes. Now that you have worked up an appetite, head back to the lodge for lunch. This will the first time you experience the truly tasty food prepared by our own talented in-house cooking crew. After lunch the Saturday winter sport program begins. After the scheduled program you can enjoy more winter sports activities. When you are totally exhausted, return to the lodge, remove your equipment, come upstairs and enjoy hot drinks and snacks. At the same time you experience the tantelizing aroma of the culinary feast that is being prepared for dinner. During the pre-dinner time you can relax with friends, read, or play board/card games. If you are a risky type you can also try to carry on a philosophical discussion with any one at Meany :-). After all of that; you are ready to enjoy a scrumptious family dinner. After dinner, the evening entertainment begins and every weekend it is something different, from just sitting around, to dancing, to skits. By the time you go to bed you have enjoyed a fabulous day.

Sunday morning starts early, with the famous "Hecox hearty breakfast". Then it's off to the slopes for the Sunday program. After lunch and lodge clean-up, you have one more chance to hit the slopes. Departure, which is usually around 3:30 pm, is a very exciting time, especially for the newbie skiers. If the instructors have given their permission, the newbies can ski down to the flat part of the forest road to wait for the Cat to arrive, then they get to be towed out. If the snow is hard, the cat will be in 3rd gear and going nearly 20 mph. The skiers always have a great time, tossing snowballs at each other, knocking snow off overhanging tree limbs or "riding the waves" on the way out.

The lodge has facilities that would cost a king's ransom at some other ski areas. It accommodates a total of 97 people in female, male and family hostel-style dorms. There are comfortable men's and women's restrooms. But most importantly, there are separate shower facilities with a unending supply of hot water never runs out.

Various overnight and day packages are available. A full listing of prices and registration links can be found on Room & Board page.

The best room/board deal is the Meany Season Pass. For one low price, you get full season room/board access to the lodge and usage of the surrounding ski venues. The low cost for this great deal is:

To purchase a season pass, please click on Meany Season Pass

To sign up for:

room and board, click Lodge Room/Board and from pull down in upper right corner select your weekends.
winter Sports, click programs, then scroll down pick you program and then click on the registration link.

And if Winter skiing is not enough to satisfy your sports appetite, then click on the Spring Skiing trip to find out more about our European skiing extravaganza.

---

If you have suggestions or comments about the website, please email Webmaster
Meany Lodge©, Design by Brian Thompson and Emilio Marasco,