Inches of Snow Bring Winter Stoke to Mt. Bachelor, Oregon

The last bits of summer seemed to bid Central Oregon farewell last week and make way for a chilly, cloudy weekend. The first significant storm of the season rolled into Oregon on Sunday night, bringing a few inches of snow to ski areas across the PNW. 

Much to the delight of skiers in Central Oregon, who are still recovering from the emotional rollercoaster of last winter, Mt. Bachelor picked up the highest snow total, with 3″ falling down to the mountain’s base area as of Monday morning.

A peek at Mt. Bachelor’s webcams shows the storm continuing through Monday afternoon, with flakes accumulating across the mountain. Further north, Timberline also picked up 3″ of snow & wintry mix, and Crystal Mountain, in Washington, got an inch.

While it’s not technically the first snow Mt. Bachelor has seen this season, the storm currently moving through is the first one with continued temperatures cold enough to keep snow on the ground in the forecast. The mountain got a few inches over Labor Day weekend, in time to close out its bike park’s summer season hours with some excellent dirt. 

Over the next five days, Mt. Bachelor is forecasted to get another 8″ of snow before things calm down a bit. Looking further out, more precipitation could be on the way at the tail end of the first week of November. Given the way last season went, even the 8″ in the forecast is pretty exciting to see. It’s also a tiny bit reminiscent of the 2024/25 season, where the faucet turned on in late October and allowed the mountain to open two weeks early, but we won’t get our hopes that high just yet… 

Notably, the next leg of this storm will hit a bit harder further north, with Timberline and Mt. Hood Meadows forecasting 28″ and 22″ over the next five days. In Washington, White Pass, Crystal Mountain, Alpental, and Stevens Pass could all see between 14″ and 18″ of snow this week.

Mt. Bachelor is currently scheduled to open for the 2026/27 season on December 4.

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