never been riding up north really, I am going to a car meet sometime in May this year in Bend OR, so I plan to bring the bike with because one of my dads business associates lives up there and he said he would show me come cool places to run ... I have snowboarded at Timberline and Mt hood ski bowl back in Dec 2000, lots of fun, it was amazing to see the reasonable prices you guys have compared to the Lake Tahoe area resorts here.