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Resorts: Quality of snow
not affected by quantity
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Northwest have been struggling,"
he said. "It seems everybody but
Bachelor isn't doing well right now."
Near Portland is Mt. Hood Mead
ows, accessible by taking 1-5 North to
1-84 East, then taking Exit 64 to High
way 35. At Mt. Hood Meadows,
guests can participate in skiing,
snowboarding, and cross-country
and Nordic skiing. Twelve miles away
at its sister resort, Cooper Spur, tub
ing and snowshoeing are available.
The closest lodging to both resorts is
Cooper Spur Mountain Resort, which
offers cabins and rooms with hot
tubs. Mt. Hood Meadows Director of
Marketing and Sales Dave Tragethon
described the mountain's terrain as
"varied, unique and exciting."
"It's interesting," he said. "Each
run is unique and playful because of
the volcanoes. That makes it more
fun to ride or ski."
The Mt. Hood resorts'tubing and
Nordic ski centers are closed atthe
moment due to a lack of snow, so
their guests are focusing on skiing
and snowboarding. Tragethon said
although they've received less snow
with low amounts of moisture than
usual, the snow is cold enough for
great skiing. While the cold snow did
n't arrive until a week before Christ
mas (a late startto the resorts' sea
sons) the low temperature since then
has produced "very good" business.
"Our snow is below normal in
quantity, but above normal in quali
ty," Tragethon said.
Mt. Hood Meadows carries the
steepest ticket price out of thefour
resorts—$50 for a full day on a
weekend in January or February. Its
lowest price is $22 for activities be
ginning at3 p.m. on a weekday. Ski
ing and snowboarding lessons,
ranging from 90-minute coaching
sessions to eight-week programs,
are available atthe Epicenter.
"We're well known for family
and learning programs, and for in
troducing kids to the sport,"
Tragethon said.
natchilingerian@dailyemerald.com
Movie: Cheap
thrills don't
redeem film
Continued from page 6
the purpose of giving Keaton a place to
ship the kid off to whenever he's not
needed forthe advancement of
the plot.
What makes this movie recom
mendable is its individual scenesthat
actually work very well as pure horror
filmmaking. These moments work be
cause the filmmakers take the time to
build up to them and don't deactivate
them by adding such superfluous ele
ments as rising symphonic music or
slash 'n' dash editing. With these se
quences the film almost redeems itself,
but subsequently squanders this capi
tal on unexplainable plot developments
and cheap thrills.
So while in the end the film comes
outto nothing more than a cookie
cutter thriller, what little worth remains
makes it at least watchable for a sitting
or two. Unfortunately, it's not possible
to transport the good elements of a bad
movie into a better film.
ryannyburg@dailyemerald.com
Murphey: Shows flaunt worst of American culture
Continued from page 5
This may sound like elitist snobbery
from a self-appointed authority on cul
ture, and that's because it is, but that
doesn't mean the opinion isn't valid.
The fact is, there are gray areas in cul
ture and entertainment, but gray isn't
even visible from the place on the art
versus garbage spectrum where
“Love is in the Heir" and "Trading
Spouses" reside. It's not beautiful; it's
not clever; it's just bad taste, which is
probably the reason why the reality
television trend has spread faster than
a grease fire in an oily rag factory. Af
ter all, nobody appreciates bad taste
more than the United States.
Like some kind of creeping, predato
ry ivy, the "reality" format has spread
from trashy networks such as Fox to ca
ble networks such as Animal Planet and
the Discovery Channel, choking out re
maining strongholds for diverse and
semi-intellectual television. TLC, other
wise known as The Learning Channel,
now airs what seems like 24 hours of
home improvement reality shows. What
are viewers learning? That a part of an
interior designer's job is to be so perky
and hyperactive that it makes "Weird
Al" Yankovic tired?
There was a time when Music Tele
vision, or MTV, actually had more to do
with music than a bunch of stupid peo
ple doing stupid things with stupid
celebrities. Youngsters in need of a cul
ture that would provoke their parents
could turn to Downtown Julie Brown or
JJ Jackson for music that was actually
relevant. Since then, groups such as
Public Enemy, Nirvana and Joan Jett
were first traded in for the likes of P.Did
dy, Puddle of Mudd and Avril Lavigne,
and then even these flaccid and easily
forgotten "artists" were traded in for
"Room Raiders" and "Pimp My Ride."
Along with the return of old fa
vorites, this season brings us new and
more morally apprehensible concepts
such as celebrity fat camp and a girl
trying to pick the father that she's nev
er met in her life out of a group of men,
"The Bachelor"-style.
These shows basically take the
worst of American society and flaunt it
like it's something to be proud of. The
worst part is that we watch it. It seems
like the cancer of reality television is
not going to stop until the democratic
voting system is replaced by "Presi
dential Survivor."
ryanmurphey@dailyemerald.com
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