Thursday February 21top

Snow Camping Skill Builder

The Mazamas wanna show you how to properly freeze your ass off (i.e., sans the frostbite) and get pleasure from doing so. During this combined lecture and weekend field session (Feb. 23-24), cold-blooded campers get schooled in snow-camping essentials like gear/site selection, pitching a poleless tent, cooking/caching food, avalanche awareness, building snow caves and kitchens, and, most importantly, building latrine areas for waste disposal so you won’t ever have to sleep in the same tent with your buddy’s frozen poop again! Mazama Mountaineering Center, 527 SE 43rd Ave., 227-2345. 7 pm. Call 227-2345 to register. $50-$75. Easy-Moderate.

Wild Winters & Wild Creatures Film Night

Considering the recent opening of Timberline Lodge’s 220-acre Still Creek Basin, not to mention the proposals to develop land at both Cooper Spur and Mount Adams, tonight's screening of Resorting to Madness: Taking Back Our Mountain Communities (a 50-minute film about the impacts ski resorts have on mountain communities and their environment) could not hold more relevance. The other films shown during Crag Law Center's film night include Nine Winters Old-ski photographer Dave Heath’s take on snowiness in action, the short Underwater Cave Kayaking in Papua New Guinea and the animated short Climber. Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd., 281-4215. 6:45 pm. $7. Easy.

Saturday February 23top

The Salmon’s Hidden Problem

“Fundamentally, the salmon’s decline has been the consequence of a vision based on flawed assumptions and unchallenged myths.” Intrigued? Jim Lichatowich, author of Salmon Without Rivers: A History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis (from which this quote is pulled), gives a presentation explaining the reasoning behind this claim. As Oregon’s former chief of fisheries research and assistant chief of fisheries, Lichatowich has been tackling Pacific salmon issues for 37 years. The only way this event could be more fishy is if they serve salmon cakes for dinner. Rainier’s Old Hall, 103 C St., Rainier., 556-4204. 6:30 (dinner), 7:50 pm (presentation). Presentation is free (dinner is $15 per person). Easy.

Tubbs Romp to Stomp Out Breast Cancer

While the amount's nothing to snowshoe home about, Oregon managed to raise $640 for the cure last year despite our event getting canceled on account of the glacial outburst fiasco. However, New Jersey, whose event was canceled due to “unseasonable temperatures,” still managed to raise $80 more than us. But hey, we were too focused on the cleanup, right? Well, this year redemption is ours—or should be ours—considering all the snow that’s been piling up on Mount Hood thus far (that, and who can argue with supporting cancer research?). Shoers choose between a 3K or 5K walk or a 3K fun race. A limited supply of snowshoe demos and rentals are available to early birds who just can’t wait to prove who really is the Garden State. White River West Sno-Park, Mount Hood., n/a. 9 am. $25-$30. For directions, visit tubbsromptostomp.com. Easy.