The winter that's ending won't go down as the best season in Mount Ashland's 45-year history, but it was far from the worst.

Gene Landsmann died just over a year ago, but he will be remembered this weekend in ski races at Mount Ashland and Mount Shasta.

What's good for skiers and snowboarders isn't necessarily good for the folks who manage their winter playgrounds.

A bunch of dummies competed on the slopes of Mount Ashland Saturday, and it got ugly for some of them. The Dummy Downhill Race pitted crash dummies, created by Southern Oregon University students, against the mountain and each other. Contest rules dictated that dummies could not weigh more than 125 pounds, they had to be mounted on one snowboard or two skis, and they couldn't be constructed with glass, sharp metal objects or explosives.

You can expect snow on the Southern Oregon University campus Monday — at least on the grass near Stevenson Union.

Powder hounds have had little to howl about this winter, but storms at midweek raised hopes that the second half of the ski season will be something to shout about.

Mica Cardillo learned to appreciate winter on Mount Ashland. Now he's giving a whole new generation of kids an introduction to snow sports.

Skiing and snowboarding have never been big high-school sports in Southern Oregon, but that doesn't mean there aren't kids who want to compete.

Mount Ashland had the dubious distinction this week of having the thinnest snow pack among Oregon ski areas.

The coffee maker is already gurgling when Rick Saul climbs out of bed a few minutes before 5 a.m.