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8 Wednesday, April 4, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon USFS seeks to build snowshoe trail Snowshoers and cross- country skiers enjoy the same experience — getting out into the backcountry in the winter snows. But the two modes of travel are not compatible. Snowshoe tracks mess up the smooth sliding of Nordic skiers. The Sisters Ranger District wants to create a 1.75-mile dedicated, sepa- rate snowshoe trail from the Upper Three Creek Sno-Park to the Jeff View Trail Shelter. By keeping snowshoers and Nordic skiers separate, the recreational experience is expected to be better for both. Actual trail construction would be minimal, but some trail signs and blue diamonds to mark the trail would be added at 75- to 150-foot intervals. The District is seeking public input on the proposed trail, due by April 27. Submit comments to Amy Racki, Jeff View Shelter Snowshoe Trail Project, P.O. Box 249, Sisters, OR 97759; call 541- 549-7730. You can hand- deliver comments to the Sisters Ranger District Office at the corner of Main Avenue and Pine Street. Email to comments-pacificnorthwest- deschutes-sisters@fs.fed. us. Put Jeff View Shelter Snowshoe Trail Project in the subject line. Classifieds are online at NuggetNews.com PHOTO COURTESY ASHLEY OKURA “Buck” jumps across a full moon in Sisters’ newest piece of public art. ‘Buck’ jumps in to Sisters’ art scene By Jim Cornelius Editor in Chief Folks in Sisters are used to seeing deer roaming around town, even crossing Cascade Avenue in a crosswalk. Now there’s one jumping across the moon. A work crew last week installed Dennis McGregor’s mural of “Buck” leaping across the face of a full moon and over the Three Sisters mountains on the face of The Gallimaufry on the corner of Cascade Avenue and Elm Street. Building owner Mike Reed wanted to do a mural with McGregor, and put his niece Ashley Okura in touch with the Sisters artists. “Dennis and myself col- laborated on the content of the image,” Okura told The Nugget. “The artistry was all Dennis, of course.” McGregor said that as they kicked around ideas, the notion of the skyline and the moon seemed natural. “I felt like, since it was high up in the air, that the image should be high up as well,” McGregor said. McGregor observed that the deer will pick up a theme along with the selected art for the Barclay/Highway 20 roundabout. “I think it’s kind of cool that Danae Miller’s round- about art features deer, too,” he said. “So we’ve got a theme going.” If the deer in the mural looks familiar, he should. “The same deer that posed for the Sisters Folk Festival poster a few years ago is the one I used for this one,” McGregor said. “Same guy.”
