Recreation

Oregon State Parks will expand same-day online campsite reservations statewide in 2024

SALEM — Last-minute camping is about to get a little easier in Oregon. Starting Jan. 1, 2024, same-day…

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Plunge into warmth at an Eastern Oregon hot spring

Winter begins and our bones labor to reconcile. Fierce cold and cutting drafts separate our clothes from our…

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Base camp: Christmas gifts for outdoors enthusiasts

If you don’t know what to buy the outdoorsman in your life for Christmas, take heart. Outdoorsmen love…

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Out and about: Scarce snow extends hiking season

I have never ice skated across an alpine lake, and not only because I fear compound fractures, hypothermia…

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The natural world: Don’t be a sucker about suckers

My Purple Maribou fly undulates in gentle current, swings across a shallow run dotted with submerged boulders, and…

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Anthony Lakes optimistic about snow-filled forecast

BAKER CITY — After a tantalizing snowstorm that dropped more than a foot of snow in places the…

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Out and about: A simple hunt that rarely is

No hunt should be easier than the annual quest for a Christmas tree. Conifers, you probably have noticed…

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Forest Service cancels food storage ban at Hells Canyon campground

JOSEPH — The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest has rescinded an order prohibiting visitors from storing food at and near…

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Caught Ovgard: Hiking was invented to cover a failed outdoor excursion

Though I’ve mentioned it before, hiking was built on a lie. A harmless lie, to be sure, but…

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Over the Blues: Doctor’s Orders: Hiking the Sinks Trail

My doctor is a contrarian. For my annual physical he prescribes not an array of pills or a…

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