MT. BACHELOR — Skiers scoured the slopes of Mt. Bachelor on Sunday, looking for an elusive, but empty, beer keg.

The event offered a holiday twist on the traditional Easter egg hunt: The Deschutes Brewery Easter Keg Hunt at Mt. Bachelor. There was no beer – or Easter candy – inside the keg, only the promise that the winner would receive a $120 gift certificate for food and drinks at Deschutes Brewery.

The event’s organizers provided keg hunters with hourly clues via Facebook and Twitter. Drew Jackson, interactive services coordinator at Mt. Bachelor, offered the first clue late Saturday to whet the interest of keg hunters.

“Hunters don’t need to ride the 9,000-foot lift to the top of the mountain.” From there, hourly clues starting at 8 a.m. Sunday became more specific to help participants narrow down the search area, Jackson said.

One clue, for example, helped hunters rule out the Cinder Cone — last year’s location — as a spot for the keg.

Another clue showed a photo of a view of the Three Sisters from the top of a ski lift.

The clue said the keg “doesn’t have this good of a view, though.”

Three clues later, Lance Tamashiro found the keg tucked into a tree stump and almost covered by snow.

Bryan Hilts of Bend — one of several participating skiers — said the event was still enjoyable, even if he didn’t have any luck finding the keg with his family.

“It was fun,” he said. “We got pretty close. We just didn’t find it.”

For the youngsters, Mt. Bachelor had a more traditional hunt — for Easter eggs.