16 Wednesday, July 24, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon ADVENTURES! IN SISTERS COUN Puzzles make for adventure in Bend If you’re looking for an adventure that challenges your problem-solving skills and creates fun and camaraderie among your friends, family, and colleagues, enter Bend Escape Room. Bend Escape Room provides an interac- tive puzzle adventure suitable for just about everyone. It’s a physical adventure game where participants are placed into a room and have to use teamwork along with ele- ments of the room to solve a series of puz- zles, find clues, and escape the room within a set time limit. Each room is themed and has a unique storyline that engages the players through their environment. Find a lost girl; free yourself from a pirate ship and find lost treasure; track down a missing girl before a bomb goes off… adventure calls! Bend Escape Room takes you out of the day-to-day and offers new experiences. It’s a great activity to celebrate birthdays or anniversaries, and many companies use adventures to build their teams. Bend Escape Room will soon move to a new location and add four new rooms — all full of adventure. Learn more at www. bendescaperoom.com or call 541-382-0770. Annual PCT migration is underway in Sister By Stuart Ehr Correspondent One of the great annual migrations is passing by (and through) Sisters for the next sev- eral months. Unless you know what to look for you might miss it. Known around the world and popularized by the book and film “Wild,” the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) challenges back- packers from all 50 states and countries from around the globe to attempt a northbound (com- monly known as NOBO within the community) hike from the Mexican border all the way to Canada — a distance of 2,667 miles, and complete it before the snow becomes impassible on the PCT in the Northern Cascades of Washington state. A smaller percentage of hik- ers set off southbound (SOBO) from the Canadian border, simi- larly, hoping to clear the Sierra- Nevada mountain range before the white stuff falls. This year nearly 6,000 thru- hiking permits were issued, a truly remarkable record! However, even on a good year, only one in four who attempt a thru-hike on the PCT will fin- ish. On a bad year, such as 2017, when heavy snowmelt followed by raging wildfires fires closed sections of the PCT for weeks at a time, only 17 persevered and finished.