Golden Rose Ski Classic
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Timberline Lodge Ski Area, showing the Magic Mile and Palmer chairlifts with Silcox Hut at right center
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| Location | Mount Hood, Clackamas County, Oregon, US |
| Nearest city | Government Camp 5 miles (8 km) south, Portland 60 miles (100 km) west |
| Coordinates | 45°20′N 121°43′W / 45.33°N 121.71°WCoordinates: 45°20′N 121°43′W / 45.33°N 121.71°W |
| Vertical | 3,620 ft (1,103 m) |
| Top elevation | 8,540 ft (2,603 m) |
| Base elevation | 4,850 ft (1,478 m) |
| Skiable area | 1,430 acres (579 ha) |
| Runs | 35 |
| Longest run | 3.12 mi (5 km) |
| Lift system | 7 chairlifts, 1 rope tow, 1 magic carpet |
| Lift capacity | 8,100 persons per hour |
| Terrain parks | Yes |
| Snowfall | yearly snowfall: 45 ft (14 m) average pack: 15 ft (4.6 m) |
| Night skiing | Yes, 3 chairlifts |
| Website | Timberline Lodge |
Timberline Lodge ski area is the ski and snowboarding area of Timberline Lodge, a National Historic Landmark in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is one of a few ski areas in the United States with most of the skiable terrain below the main lodge. It is located on the south face of Mount Hood, about 60 miles (95 km) east of Portland, accessible via the Mount Hood Scenic Byway.
The lodge was constructed between 1936 and 1938 as a Works Progress Administration project during the Great Depression. That year, Timberline opened as Oregon's first destination ski resort with a portable rope tow. The next year, the Magic Mile chairlift opened, as well as Silcox Hut, which sits about one thousand vertical feet (300 m) and a mile (1.6 km) above the main lodge, and was the original unloading and warming hut.
Summer skiing and summer race camps began at Timberline in 1956. Before the Palmer chairlift was constructed in 1983 (which provides access above the 7,000-foot (2,100 m) level), the conditions at Timberline allowed skiing from the Mile November through July or August. With the Palmer, a skiable surface is available year round. Timberline is the only ski area in the states with lift accessed skiing and snowboarding all twelve months of the year. Ski and snowboard camps draw thousands of people to the slopes during the months of June, July and August.
The Magic Mile chairlift was the longest chairlift in the world, and the second chairlift, of those built to be a chairlift when it opened in 1939. Financial troubles operating the Lodge and World War II closed it for several years during the 1940s and 1950s. The ski area has successfully operated since 1956.
The original Palmer chairlift opened for 1978 summer ski season. It was a fixed double chair in basically the same location as the present chair, with the base station near Silcox Hut.
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