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Heather Lift Line at Mount Hood Meadows

Expert · 245 m long with 113 m of vertical, averaging 25° and 32° at its steepest, facing NE.

32°steepest 50 m
25°average pitch
245 mlength
113 mvertical
1716 mtop elevation
NEfaces

Snow and sun

Heather Lift Line is poleward-facing: least winter sun, holds cold powder longest, can stay firm or icy.

Grooming: backcountry. Ungroomed, off-piste character.

How to get to Heather Lift Line

Lifts that reach the top: Shooting Star Express (skiing expert terrain to get there); Cascade Express (skiing expert terrain to get there).

From the base area (about 21 minutes, expert skiing needed):

  1. Ride Hood River Express
  2. Ski Titan (advanced)
  3. Ride Shooting Star Express
  4. Ski Nettie's Run (intermediate)
  5. Ski Shooting Star Ridge (intermediate)
  6. Ski Apollo (advanced)
  7. Ski Columbia (advanced)
  8. Ski Jack's Woods (advanced)
  9. Ski Ho Chi Minh (expert)
  10. Ski Heather Lift Line (expert)

Where it ends

Joins Heater Canyon. Nearest lifts from the bottom: Heather (1 min).

See Heather Lift Line on the 3D mapAll runs at Mount Hood Meadows
Measured from OpenStreetMap geometry and elevation via OpenSkiMap (ODbL). Times are rough. Grades, grooming and openings change day to day — check the resort's own reports.