From Bend and 2 other places. Read from the airport weather stations between you and the summit and the cloud layers at the summit.
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Reading the airports along the sightline.
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Bachelor sits west-southwest of Bend (bearing about 254°). Sunrise is the safer bet all year: the sun comes up behind you and lights the face you see. Sunset works in summer, when the sun goes down well to the right of the peak, but near the winter solstice it sets within about 15° of the summit bearing, almost behind it, so you are looking into the glare instead of the color.
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Each region reads its own weather stations. Twenty miles can be the difference between fog and a clear view.
19 miles to the summit.
33 miles to the summit.
14 miles to the summit.
Which months and which hours the mountain is most often visible from Bend.
US 97 through Bend and Century Drive toward the ski area, with ODOT cameras and reports within 25 miles of Mount Bachelor.
We read the cloud ceilings at the airports between Bend and the summit, the cloud layers at the summit from the MET Norway model, and whether that cloud sits below 9,068 ft. No crowd reports.
Cloud forecasts get less reliable the further out they go. Days four and five are drawn in six-hour steps for that reason, and the forecast stops at five.
Different weather stations, different sky. The same morning can be fog in one and clear in the other, twenty miles apart. Each region page reads its own stations.
Wildfire smoke and haze can hide the mountain on a day the cloud numbers say clear. When the numbers are unsure, the page says so.
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