BEND, OR -- If you didn’t get enough of the snow, this winter, Mt. Bachelor has a chance for you to revel in it just a little bit longer. Summer operations start Saturday, with mountain biking and scenic lift rides. Then on Sunday, the resort launches JulySki. "We’ve never had the two of those together; the biking and skiing, specifically," says Mt. Bachelor's Stirling Cobb. "Personally, I’m super excited for this, just because to be able to ski and bike at the same mountain on the same day, that’s a pretty unique experience. I’m not too familiar or aware of any other places that are doing something like that."
Cobb tells KBND News, “We were fortunate to have such a great winter, and we’ve done a little bit of snow farming to kind of maintain it in places over the past few months, but this is all natural snow." He says it's indicitive of how much snow fell this winter. "I think this is the ninth time in Mt. Bachelor history that we’ve been open for skiing on July Fourth. So, that just goes to show how much snow we really received.”