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The Nugget
Vol. XL No. 31
P OSTAL CUSTOMER
News and Opinion
from Sisters, Oregon
www.NuggetNews.com
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
“Challenge” is real in Hoodoo race
Rider killed
in Highway
20 wreck
By Charlie Kanzig
Correspondent
The Hoodoo Challenge
Run to the Top half-mara-
thon lived up to its name on
Saturday, July 29, as nearly
100 brave souls not only
agreed to run 13.1 miles on
dusty and rocky trails, but
to finish that run with a 1.9-
mile climb up to the top of the
Hoodoo summit.
The second edition of the
Sisters Kiwanis event took a
big jump in registration, and
the hospitable service club’s
efforts did not disappoint the
participants’ despite the rigors
of the course.
“The race was actually
brutal to be honest, but the
organizers did a fantastic job
and took good care of us,”
said one runner. “As far as the
course is concerned, there’s
just no reprieve.”
While plenty tough last
year, Saturday’s race provided
additional challenges. The
2016 race took place in early
Correspondent
For students interested in
learning about geology in the
Oregon Cascades, one solu-
tion is to sign up for a geology
course – at Middle Tennessee
State University (MTSU)!
For the past 20 years, Warner
Cribb, Professor of Geology
and Chair of the Department
of Geological Sciences at
MTSU has been leading
his students on geological
expeditions in the Cascade
mountains.
Much of the course work in
Prof. Cribb’s classes revolves
around vulcanology, and vol-
canoes are in short supply in
Tennessee. So, for aspiring
geologists, it makes sense to
go where the action is; and,
Inside...
See RUN on page 25
See WRECK on page 22
Nick Scalfone of Bend took the win in the Hoodoo Challenge on Saturday.
Sisters a laboratory
for Tenn. geology class
By Craig F. Eisenbeis
won again, but his time was
about five minutes slower.
A motorcyclist was killed
in a crash on Highway 20
west of Sisters last Friday,
July 28.
The wreck occurred near
Black Butte Ranch, the sec-
ond fatal accident on this
stretch of highway this
summer.
Oregon State Police troop-
ers and emergency person-
nel responded to the report
of a passenger vehicle versus
a motorcycle on Highway
20 near milepost 93 west of
Sisters at about 5 p.m.
According to OSP, pre-
liminary information revealed
a 2015 Nissan Altima was
traveling westbound on
Highway 20 when it drifted
across the centerline and
into the path of an eastbound
Kawasaki motorcycle. The
PHOTO BY JEFF OMODT
September. Temperatures
were cooler and it had rained
a bit prior to the event. Hotter
temperature and changes in
for geologists everywhere, the
Pacific Northwest is like a liv-
ing laboratory of geologic and
volcanic wonders.
“The class came to be back
in the 1990s when I took a job
at MTSU after finishing my
doctorate in geology at Ohio
State,” said Cribb. “I wrote
my dissertation on Mt. Hood,
and so wanted a way to intro-
duce MTSU students to the
field study of volcanoes. It
started as a one-week class,
but over the years has grown
to three weeks.”
The course offers students
learning opportunities that
simply cannot be experienced
any other way. Last week,
Cribb’s class hiked to South
Matthieu Lake, in the very
See GEOLOGY on page 31
the course that included more
loose dirt than last year took
their toll. The champion of
the 2016 race, Nick Scalfone,
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Log truck and horse trailer collide
A horse was killed in a
crash involving a log truck
and a pickup pulling a horse
trailer last week.
On Tuesday, July 25,
Cloverdale firefight-
ers responded to a traf-
fic collision that had just
occurred at the intersec-
tion of Cloverdale and
Jordan Roads. Firefighters
found that a loaded log
truck collided with a Dodge
pickup pulling a horse
trailer.
The drivers and sole occu-
pants of the pickup and truck
tractor declined medical
attention, however a horse
in the trailer pulled by the
Dodge truck sustained fatal
injuries.
Firefighters spent approx-
imately two hours at the
scene containing a diesel fuel
spill of approximately 100
gallons and extricating the
PHOTO PROVIDED
A horse was killed in a collision at the intersection of Cloverdale and
Jordan Road.
horse from the badly dam-
aged trailer.
Deschutes County Road
Department and SMAF
Environmental of Prineville
responded to the scene to
perform a complete environ-
mental cleanup of the spilled
fuel.
Firefighters were also
assisted at the scene by staff
of Bend Equine Center.
The Deschutes County
Sheriff ’s Office is inves-
tigating the cause of the
collision.
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