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Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Historic Elkhorn Mountain cabin open for rental
Anthony Lake
Guard Station
usually serves as
Nordic ski center
By JAYSON JACOBY
Baker City Herald
BAKER CITY — The
COVID-19 pandemic has
made it possible for some
people to spend a couple of
nights this winter in a snow-
bound log cabin high in the
Elkhorn Mountains.
But if you wait long you
might miss your chance.
Reservations for the
historic Anthony Lake Guard
Station, built in the 1930s by a
Civilian Conservation Corps
crew on the north shore of
Anthony Lake, became avail-
able Jan. 1 on the website for
Anthony Lakes Mountain
Resort.
Within a couple of days,
the two-story cabin had been
reserved for almost every
weekend through the ski
season, which ends in early
April. The guard station opens
for renting on Wednesday,
Jan. 13.
The guard station rents
for $350 per night, with a
two-night minimum.
“People are always look-
ing for a place to stay up
here,” said Chelsea Judy,
marketing director for the ski
area about 35 miles northwest
Chelsea Judy/Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort
The historic Anthony Lake Guard Station is open for overnight rentals this winter.
of Baker City.
The resort doesn’t have
overnight lodging except for
a pair of yurts.
And reservations for those
structures are quickly snapped
up, Judy said.
As of Jan. 7, one of the
yurts had been reserved for
all but two days — Jan. 26
and Jan. 27 — and the other
was claimed on every day but
the fi nal day of the season,
April 4.
The guard station, by
contrast, normally is open for
overnight stays only during
the spring, summer and fall.
During the ski season,
though, the structure usually
serves as the Nordic center
for Anthony Lakes, with
cross-country ski and snow-
shoe rentals, trail passes to
groomed routes, lesson regis-
trations, coffee and a warm
fi replace to sit beside.
But not during the
pandemic.
The issue, Judy said, is size.
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The guard station, though
it can accommodate eight
people for overnight stays, has
the typical tidy dimensions of
a log cabin. That, combined
with its single entrance,
makes the cabin unsuitable as
a Nordic center while the ski
area follows social distancing
guidelines, she said.
But resort staff members
had a brainstorming session
during which they decided to
ask the U.S. Forest Service,
which owns the guard station,
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ON TA R IO — U.S.
Rep. Cliff Bentz, the only
Republican in Oregon’s
Congressional delegation,
said on Saturday, Jan. 9,
that he doesn’t think Presi-
dent Donald Trump should
resign or be impeached. He
said he expects the president
to be held accountable “in the
proper way.”
Bentz, just fi nishing his
fi rst week in Congress repre-
senting the 2nd Congres-
sional District, said in an
interview on Jan. 9 with the
Malheur Enterprise that
impeaching Trump wouldn’t
be a “productive exercise.”
House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi has said the House
would move ahead to
impeach Trump if he didn’t
resign. A draft of Articles of
Impeachment said Trump
should be impeached for
inciting an insurrection at the
nation’s Capitol on Wednes-
day, Jan. 6.
Oregon’s U.S. sena-
Last
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tor s, Ron
Wyden and
Jeff Merk-
ley, h ave
both called
for Trump’s
removal
Bentz
from offi ce,
as have U.S.
Reps. Earl Blumenauer,
Suzanne Bonamici and Peter
DeFazio, all Democrats. U.S.
Rep. Kurt Schrader, also a
Democrat, announced on
Jan. 9 that he would support
impeachment. A day earlier,
he publicly apologized for
comparing impeachment to
a lynching during a Congres-
sional call.
That leaves Bentz alone
in the delegation in support-
ing the president’s contin-
ued service in offi ce until the
change of administrations on
Wednesday, Jan. 20.
Bentz said he didn’t
support the call for a resig-
nation because “he’s going to
be gone.”
He opposes impeach-
ment.
“I don’t think that’s the
proper thing to do,” said
Bentz, an attorney from
Ontario. “The proper thing to
do is to have him leave offi ce
under the normal course.”
Bentz said, however, that
he expects Trump is “going
to be held accountable in the
proper way” for his role in
the Jan. 6 insurrection.
He said he has asked for
research on what may be the
options “under the law” to
hold Trump accountable.
Bentz was among 138
Republicans who voted on
Thursday, Jan. 7, to object
to Pennsylvania’s election
results. The vote came just
hours after the invasion of the
Capitol was quelled. Bentz
didn’t support the objection
raised to Arizona’s results.
Bentz represents a heav-
ily Republican district that
covers Eastern Oregon and
large portions of Southern
Oregon. He resigned his seat
in the state Senate to run for
Congress, winning a seat
vacated by the retirement of
Republican Greg Walden of
Hood River.
IN BRIEF
NATIONAL EXTREMES
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
up to eight, goes for $250 per
night.
Another change this winter
is the resort offering catered
dinners, as well as growlers
of beer, for guests at the yurts
and the guard station, Judy
said.
Although the guard station
won’t be the Nordic center this
winter, cross-country skiers
and snowshoers still have a
place to go.
Judy said a 24-foot travel
trailer will serve as the Nordic
center starting Saturday, Jan.
9. The trailer will be set up in
the Elkhorn Crest Trail park-
ing lot, about an eighth of a
mile east of the guard station.
The portable center will
have the usual ski and snow-
shoe rentals, pass sales and
hot coffee, she said.
One benefi t of the tempo-
rary location is additional
parking, Judy said.
The Elkhorn Crest Trail
parking lot, which normally
is not plowed during winter, is
much larger than the parking
area near the guard station,
she said.
The latter area will be
plowed as usual, but it will be
open only to guard station and
yurt guests.
Judy said Anthony Lakes
plans to continue its current
operations, with the lodge
closed except for restrooms.
All visitors are required to
wear face coverings.
Rep. Bentz opposes impeachment but
expects Trump to be held ‘accountable’
By LES ZAITZ
Malheur Enterprise
Not as cool with
showers around
whether it could be opened for
overnight stays this winter.
The agency agreed, Judy
said.
Preparing the guard station
was simple since it was still
set up for overnight stays and
had not yet been changed to
serve as the Nordic center, she
said.
The guard station is a bit
more plush than the ski area’s
yurts, having both running
water and electricity, as well
as a full kitchen.
A new gas fi replace was
installed recently in the log
cabin, Judy said.
Although the guard station
is reserved for weekends, as
of Thursday there were more
than 35 nights available. That
includes two Fridays — Feb.
12 and March 26 — as well
as multiple Sunday nights on
Jan. 24 and 31, Feb. 21 and
March 7 and 14.
Judy said she’s not
surprised the guard station
was reserved on so many
nights despite the two-night
minimum and the relatively
high rate compared with most
regional lodging.
She noted that the charge
is comparable to the yurts,
considering the size and addi-
tional amenities at the guard
station.
One of the yurts, which
sleeps up to fi ve people, rents
for $200 per night, and the
larger yurt, with a capacity
Walla Walla police,
fi refi ghters save man from
suicide at Whitman College
WALLA WALLA, Wash. — A man who
was threatening to hang himself from a
balcony at Whitman College was stopped by
Walla Walla fi refi ghters and police offi cers on
Saturday, Jan. 9, according to a news release.
According to the police department
release, dispatchers were notifi ed around
11 a.m. on Jan. 9 of a man who was suicidal.
Family members of the man told police he
had left their home with the intention to kill
himself.
Police were then notifi ed of a man spotted
on a balcony at the Whitman College with a
rope around his neck.
Offi cers and Walla Walla Fire Department
personnel arrived and began speaking with
the man while another offi cer and a fi refi ghter
went into the building to get closer to him, the
release noted.
At one point, the man reportedly removed
the rope from his neck to adjust it. The offi cer
and the fi refi ghter in the building took advan-
tage of the moment, grabbed the man off the
ledge and tackled him to the fl oor.
The man was taken to a nearby hospital for
evaluation and treatment, the release noted.
Police spokesman Offi cer Gunner Fulmer
said in the release that fi refi ghters and offi cers
of the city have had a great working relation-
ship and “this just shows how good we can
work together for the public.”
— Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
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