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48 SNOWEST NOVEMBER 2009 area is, is that it is still fun despite challenging conditions. When it comes to central Oregon, and more specifi- cally the Mt. Bachelor area, you can count on it. Sure, every snowmobiler wants the utopia of sledding—fresh powder and bluebird skies. But we can still manage to have a good time if we have at least one of the two—that would be the snow part. And that there was around Mt. Bachelor with plenty more falling from the sky during the two days we rode. Depending on what part of the area you were in during late February, anywhere from 6-15 inches of snow It's big, it's beautiful and it's in your face. At 9,068 feet, Mt. Bachelor is the centerpiece of snowmobiling in the central part of the Cascade Range. It's almost always somewhere in your range of vision while you snowmobile in central Oregon. Central oreGon has Plenty of both by Lane Lindstrom W We missed it by that much. Central Oregon brags about getting 300 days of sunshine a year. We just happened to snowmobile there during two of the other 65 days of not-so- sunny skies. Had we waited just a couple of days we would have hit the area under glori- ous blue skies and several inches of new snow. Sucks to be us. However, one of the measuring sticks of how good a snowmobiling