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 The Mountain: Three Finger Jack 7,844', Oregon Cascades 13.1 miles, 3,995' vert March 8, 2025 Julian tearing up the Southeast Bowl.  Three Finger Jack occupies a lower niche in the Cascade Crest,  along with neighbor and fellow shorty Mt. Washington ,  compared to her taller siblings Mt. Hood and Mt. Jefferson to the north and the Three Sisters to the south. Erosion has had plenty of time to wear this extinct stratovolcano down, leaving the comparatively solid rock of the central magma plug towering above glacier-carved cirques. While it lacks the 4,000 ft fall-line descents that would make it a premier Oregon objective, it nonetheless provides plenty to explore in terms of ski terrain, as Julian and I would discover one sunny March day.  February had ended with wet precip and sadness on top of our beautiful powder, but that meant March started out with a lovely corn cycle. That, combined with the rapidly lengthening days, had Julian and I thinking about a lon...