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Appeal Tribune | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2021 | 1B OUTDOORS Straight to the source Follow North Santiam River into Mount Jefferson Wilderness for views, good fishing If you go Santiam Lake In a nutshell: Scenic alpine lake in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness Zach Urness Salem Statesman Journal | USA TODAY NETWORK As one of Oregon’s most important rivers, it seems fitting that the North Santiam River should have its headwaters in a dramatic location. h If you follow the source of Salem’s drinking water all the way upstream past Stayton, up through the Santiam Canyon and into the Mount Jefferson Wilderness, you’ll eventually reach a pool of clear water nestled below Three Fingered Jack. h Santiam Lake is a worthy source for the emerald river, both in terms of scenery and as a great place to pilgrimage with a backpack for a night or two, especially with a fishing rod. h It’s a 10- to 11-mile hike of moderate difficulty to Santiam Lake that can begin from two different trailheads — Duffy Lake or the Santiam Pass PCT trailhead. Both routes have their charms, but it’s a shorter drive and easier to get an overnight permit from the Duffy Lake Trail- head, so that’s where I began in late August. See SANTIAM LAKE, Page 2B Permits needed: Central Cascades Wilderness overnight permit for Duffy Lake Trailhead or PCT Santiam Trailhead bought via Recreation.gov. You need a day-use permits if traveling from Duffy TH, but not Santiam TH. Hike distance: 10 to 11 miles from both trailheads Difficulty: Moderate to strenuous, depending on fitness, but it’s not an especially steep hike. Elevation gain: 1,200 feet from Duffy Trailhead, 800 feet from Santiam PCT Trailhead Directions: Navigate to Duffy Lake or Santiam PCT Trailhead on Google Maps or other devices, as both are easily accessible and don’t require much navigation. A hike or backpacking trip to Santiam Lake in the Mount Jefferson Wilderness features old-growth forest, wildflower meadows and mountain lakes. PHOTO BY ZACH URNESS/STATESMAN JOURNAL; ILLUSTRATION BY MICAELA ENCINAS/USA TODAY NETWORK, GETTY IMAGES Read closely and you can learn where to go ‘fry fishing’ Fishing Henry Miller Guest columnist From the been-there, typed-that memory hole, the Aug. 26 fishing section of the Weekly Recreation Re- port from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife had the following classic typo: ALTON BAKER CANOE CANAL: Scheduled to be stoked this week with 743 trout. It’s a double entendre, of sorts. Anglers probably were stoked. The trout? Those were stocked. It could have been worse. Mr. Dizzy Fingers on more than one occasion has referred to fishing for “trot,” sometimes by “fry fish- ing.” A gaffe in another story was that there had been several reports of “good fishing at Golf Lake.” Presum- ably for trot? Had I have been paying attention to my serial mis- demeanors on that particular word, it should have been Gold Lake. In none of these cases will spell check bail you out. Although that particular feature also tends to be a bit xenophobic and Anglocentric. Case in point, not recognizing the word “entendre” above, a perfectly respectable French word that means, well, meaning. Instead, auto-check suggested substituting, among The Alton Baker Canoe Canal in Eugene/Springfield, where the anglers are stoked, and the trout have been stocked. HENRY MILLER/SPECIAL TO THE STATESMAN JOURNAL others, “dendrite,” a “short, branching extension of a nerve cell” according to the dictionary. Pardon the pun; spell-check has a lot of nerve. I digress. Where were we? Ah, yes. The dreaded typo. There are several that are legendary among journal- ists because of the crunch of deadlines and the reams of copy that are cranked out. One of the more frequent, humiliating and poten- tially Freudian (discuss amongst yourselves) is pubic. I can sense that the copy editor who is proof-read- ing this right now is nodding. There have been countless stories, and only slightly less frequently headlines, about hearings or meetings being “open to the pubic,” “pubic golf courses” and See MILLER, Page 2B