Mount Hood Meadows will offer four hours of skiing on limited beginner terrain on Saturday.
The ski area will operate its Buttercup chairlift from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday as part of its Pray for Snow season preview event.
This week’s stormy weather has built a 10-inch base at the 5,400-foot elevation level and 27 inches at 6,000 feet.
Crews are harvesting snow to build a swath under Buttercup, plus colder temperatures are allowing for snowmaking, Meadows officials said Thursday.