Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 2004)
ATTENTION! Be your own boss. Business solutions for new and existing entrepreneurs. Call for free consultation 1-866-280-5857 What do I know about me? I'm informed. I'm healthy. I take care of myself. www.pphsso.orjB! FREE Birth control supplies & health services for men & women. *call to see if you qualify. Eugene Danebo Springfield 344-9411 463-9731 744-7121 P Planned Parenthood Health Services of Southwestern Oregon www.wveaiKlolH'ttcr.orjt Need a hand with University related problems? Office of Student Advocacy Free advice and assistance 346-3722 ■ EMU, Room 334 2 OSA is an ASUO program funded by your incidental fee Montrail - Sierra Designs - The North Face • Columbia - Mountain Hardwear ■ Patagonia - Wigwam • Montrail - Black Diamond OUTFITTERS The North Face We SELL SnowPark Permits! We RENT Snow Shoes! INI \r\oor Gear Frr, FREE PARKING Hours: 10-6 Mon-Sat / 12-5 Sun ^ www.mckenzieoutfitters.com k<S> 566 Olive St. Downtown Eugene slL'6 343-2300 tile Is Good - Timberland - Pendelton - Vasque • Eagle Creek • Ex Officio ■ Thor-lo ■ Mountain Hardwear ■ Timberland • Columbia - Patagonia - Wigwam - Prana - is Government Camp turning chic? BY TERRY RICHARD | THE OREGONIAN Mt. Hood's only ski town got a face-lift this summer with newly paved streets and an improved Skibowl GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. — Be prepared to look twice when you pass through Government Camp for your first winter ski or snowboard trip of the season. The sleepy town at the foot of Mount Hood is on the verge of be coming chic. Who would’ve thought? A beehive of activity during the summer has given Government Camp, the village at the 4,000-foot level on Mount Hood’s south side, the start of a much-needed facelift. The construction made the town look more like Portland’s Pearl or South Waterfront districts than a place where village dogs could safely nap in the middle of the street. Oh, the town core still has the same three restaurants it’s had for the past quarter-century. And the only new retail shops are ones that have taken the place of others. But new amenities should follow next year as condos continue to sprout in Mount Hood’s only ski town. For most of this summer, Govern ment Camp was the scene of more construction than at any time since the building of Timberline Lodge in the 1930s. Clackamas County’s 10 year tax increment financing plan for the unincorporated town of 300 year round residents bore fruit this year by helping fuel these improvements: • Collins Lake Resort, an upscale con do development with units priced around $275,000, opened its first units in the center of town late this summer. While privately owned, many of the two-bedroom condos will be available for nightly rental. The first 26 are ready now, 53 more will come on line this winter and 123 more next year. • Mt. Hood Skibowl, stepchild to the classier Mt. Hood Meadows and Tim berline ski areas, has covered the pale blue outside walls of its three day lodges with cedar siding. The new rock-and-brick entry at Skibowl West will have visitors wondering if they have driven to Colorado without stopping at Mount Hood. • The central core of the downtown loop road has newly paved streets, brick paver sidewalks and gutters without curbs. Those improvements may soon be hidden beneath the snow, but visitors will surely notice the $12,000 street lamps and new welcoming signs. One thing they won’t notice is utility wires, which have been placed underground. • Building facades, ash-gray brick side walks and fire-sup pression sprinklers have been partially funded by the coun ty’s urban renewal district, so several building owners took the bait. The famous Cascadian-style rock work, born nearly a century ago at Crater Lake and Mount Rainier national parks, will be readily apparent on facades around town. A good place to notice is Huckleberry Inn, the closest thing to a town gathering spot. • A half-dozen resi dences and smaller condos are under construction on the south side ofU.S. 26, a short way from the central core. There’s even speculation that a central building lot, vacated since a 1969 fire, is ripe for devel opment. As the new con dos fill with overnight guests, mere win ineviiaDiy come a need for more restaurants, re tail stores and entertainment options beyond skiing. That will be the push for next year, town boosters predict. “We’ve seen quite a rush of im provements,” said Lloyd Musser, cu rator of the Mount Hood Cultural Center and Museum. “It used to be MORE ON MT. HOOD SKIBOWL WINTER RESORT Directions: Take 1-5 North to 1-205. Follow North to Clackamas Estscada Exit (Hwy 212). Follow Hwy 212 through Damascus and Boring. Follow signs to Sandy/ Mt. Hood Mwy 26 East. Take 26 to Government Camp. Accommodations Falcon Crest Inn (503)-272-3403 www.falconcrest.com Huckleberry Inn (503)272-3325 www.huckleberry-inn.com Mt. Hood Inn (503)-272-3205 www.mthoodinn.com Mountain Retreats Vacation Home Rentals www.mthretreats.com For more information contact Mt. Hood Skibowl at 1.800.SKIBOWL or visit it website atwww.skibowl.com. that you could walk into the street and pick up chunks of blacktop. Not any more. It won’t look like a dust bowl up here next summer.” The summer season, when Mount Hood is the only place with chairlift siding in North America, has become a boom time at Government Camp. Having two busy seasons, with rela tively short spring and fall shoulder seasons in between, has helped drive the town’s residential market. As a result, an increasing number of drivers are bound to veer off onto Government Camp’s loop road and explore the vil lage’s small core. They will still find Mount Hood’s busiest tubing hill at Summit Ski Area, the twin mountains at Skibowl, one gas station, the brew pub at the village en trance and the three old-time restaurants in the village core. Until this winter, most lodging has been handled by the Mount Hood Inn motel, Huckleberry Inn lodge, Falcon’s Crest Inn bed and breakfast, plus an assortment of va cation rentals and condos available through property managers. In the past, most winter visitors to Mount Hood spent their time downhill skiing at Timberline and Meadows, or cross-country ski ing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling in the surrounding forest. When they headed home to the Portland area, they passed Government Camp with out a second glance. That scenario should change this winter, if only for the curious who want to see how well the brick-paver sidewalks survive their first winter of battle with the state snow plows. Call us at 343-8633 Open Mon-Sat 10-6 3131 West 11th. Ave. Gigabyte 7M400M-RZ Motherboard ' Onboard 32MB VIA KM400 Video ' 20 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive '256 MB DDR Memory ' Microsoft Windows XP Home The “Competitor " HMD Sempron HP2499+ $529.99 Virtual Office Systems wumm/iwn “Ultimate Scorpion” HMD Athlon04 3500+ $1729.99 • Abit A V8 Socket 939 Motherboard •128 MB ATI Radeon 9800 Video •120 GB Seagate SA TA Hard Drive • 1 GB PC3200 Memory • Microsoft Windows XP Home • 17” .27 NEC Monitor AMD Si* Athlon Prices subject to change. Visit us on the web at WWW.VOSCOMPUTERS.COM Go Ducks! VOS Computers of Eugene, LLC Systems are also available at the DO Bookstore. Prices good through 12/3/04.
