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RIBICH
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Western Oregon did not
qualify as a team, so only
5ibich and his coach will Ày
to Missouri on Wednesday.
SKI
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Cross country skiing is
different than backcountry
skiing, though, and Hustafa
warns that wood and debris
are either not fully covered
or, worse, just barely covered
and therefore a hazard.
The roads are pretty scary
right now, too.
“The roads are packed,
rutted and extremely slick,”
Hustafa said. “It’s challeng-
ing driving.”
Snow plowing will not be-
gin until after the second elk
riÀe season closes.
The Eagle Cap Nordic
Club does not have groomed
trails. It’s break-your-own
trail, but maps of trails are
available and the trail itself is
marked with blue plastic dia-
monds along the route.
Nordic trails are all on
“very safe terrain,” Hus-
tafa said. “However, the
backcountry is by its nature
in avalanche country,” he
warned. “You have to edu-
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The pair will have a few days
to settle in before the meet,
but don’t call it a vacation.
“It’ll be just like a busi-
ness trip, I guess,” Ribich
said. “I’ll just test the water
and see what national compe-
tition has to offer.”
There will be at least a
few Ribich fans cheering him
on. His mother, Enterprise
assistant coach Jenny Rein-
heardt, will take a separate
Àight to the event. $nd a few
of Ribich’s roommates, fel-
low WOU runners, will make
the 29-hour drive to Joplin
for the event.
$nd he knows that plenty
of people in Wallowa Coun-
ty will be pulling for him as
well.
“I just want to thank the
community back home that
always supports me and
cheers me on from afar,” he
said.
cate yourself, pay attention
to the $valanche Center and
pay attention to weather and
snow-pack conditions.”
Kip Rand, who used to
work for Wallowa $lpine
Huts, already has begun re-
porting for the Wallowa $va-
lanche Center. Reports can be
accessed at http://wallowaav-
alanchecenter.org.
people off the mountain and
transferred to a higher level
of care as needed.
Some members with back-
country experience also are
tapped by Wallowa County
Search and Rescue to help
with winter missions.
The tools the ski patrol
uses (snowmobile, back-
boards, four toboggans and
¿rst aid) are funded through
the Frostbite Film Festival,
usually held in early Feb-
ruary, which also funds the
Wallowa Mountain $va-
lanche Center, the Eagle Cap
Nordic Club, the Enterprise
Ice Rink and Eagle Cap Ski
Club.
“We also receive private
donations,” $rentsen said.
“Last year Devco Industries
of Enterprise donated enough
money to buy a new tobog-
gan. “
credit hour each — or partic-
ipants can enroll as non-ad-
mits, meaning they do not
have to take the class for cred-
it or be graded.
Individuals completing the
avalanche fundamentals class
will also receive a Level 1 cer-
ti¿cate from the $merican In-
stitute for $valanche Research
and Education ($I$RE). This
two-credit course is designed
for students with an interest
in developing the skills and
knowledge necessary to travel
and lead groups safely through
avalanche prone terrain with
an emphasis on hazard eval-
uation, terrain management
and rescue techniques.
The class meets from 4-6
p.m. every other Tuesday at
EOU and will also hold ¿eld
days on two Saturdays in Jan-
uary and February.
For more detailed course
descriptions go to www.eou.
edu/outdoor/out-courses.
FERGUSON RIDGE
SKI PATROL
The Patrol has 15 mem-
bers this year, according to
Patrol President, Paul $rent-
sen. $ll members are volun-
teers.
The group is getting ready
for its Outdoor Emergency
Care Technician refresher
course to be held at Joseph
Charter School on Dec. 6.
“There will be close to 40
people from Oregon, Idaho
and Washington ski patrol
groups taking the course,”
$rentsen said. But if anyone
wants to join the patrol and
doesn’t have the training,
give him a call and he’ll see
what he can set up later this
year.
“We’re always looking
for new members,” $rentsen
said.
$long that line, $rentsen
was thrilled to reveal that
ski patroller and new $g/
))$ teacher at Joseph Char-
ter School) Toby Koehn is
working on the idea of cre-
ating an elective class in the
high school for students to
become junior ski patrollers.
The ski patrol’s main du-
ties are to monitor Fergi ev-
ery day it’s open, identify
and repair hazards and get
WINTER COURSES
OFFERED AT EOU
Eastern Oregon Univer-
sity’s Outdoor $dventure
Program offerings contin-
ue this winter with courses
in beginning and advanced
snowboarding and skiing, ski/
snowboard instructor training,
indoor gym climbing, ava-
lanche fundamentals, winter
camping and backcountry
travel.
Requiring little to no expe-
rience, the courses are an op-
portunity for individuals to try
a new outdoor sport, develop
technical skill sets and take
advantage of the winter recre-
ational activities available in
eastern Oregon.
The courses can be tak-
en for credit — most are one
COUG$RS
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ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
Athlete of the Week for this week
is Wallowa Cougars football offen-
sive and defensive lineman Wyatt
Prince. The 6-foot-2-inch 208
pounder played a stellar game in
the Cougars’ 42-36 quarterfinals
loss to Perrydale.
Coach Matt Brockamp lauded the
play of the freshman guard and
nose guard saying, “He made some
great blocks, some key blocks, at
guard, that really helped us with
the running game. He also played
nose guard pretty tough,”
he said.
Bockamp also noted that Prince
separated his shoulder in
pre-game warmups and had it popped back in before game
time. With the aid of a brace, Prince played the entire game.
Prince is the son of Heath and Angie Prince of Wallowa.
It wasn’t to be. The clock
ran out with Wallowa at mid-
¿eld.
The Cougars racked up 129
yards passing with quarterback
Koby Frye connecting on 5 of
14 passes. Noah $llen rushed
for 90 yards on 13 carries, while
Gus Ramsden rushed for 80
yards and two TDs on just three
carries. Cole Hafer led Wallowa
receivers with two catches for
44 yards.
Defensively, Ramsden led
Courtesy of ODFW
Hunter charged
in wolf shooting
Man had notified
authorities;
both charges
misdemeanors
By Eric Mortenson
EO Media Group
$ Baker City man who
told state police and wild-
life of¿cials that he’d shot a
wolf while hunting coyotes
on private property has been
charged with killing an endan-
gered species.
Brennon D. Witty, 25, also
was charged with hunting
with a center¿re riÀe without a
big game tag, Harney County
District $ttorney Tim Colah-
an said Monday. Both charges
are Class $ misdemeanors,
each punishable by up to a
year in jail and a 6,250 ¿ne.
Witty will be arraigned Dec. 2
in Grant County Justice Court
in Canyon City.
The shooting happened in
Grant County; the neighbor-
ing Harney County district
attorney handled it as a cour-
tesy because his Grant Coun-
ty counterpart was acquainted
with the hunter’s family and
wanted to avoid the appearance
of a conÀict of interest.
The incident happened Oct.
6, when Witty voluntarily noti-
WITH THESE KIDS WE’VE CHANGED THE
CULTURE OF WALLOWA FOOTBALL.
the Cougars with nine tackles
and nine assists, followed by
Noah $llen with seven tackles
and three assists.
Despite the loss, Wallowa
coach Matt Brockamp focused
on the positive.
“The kids played hard, and
I’m proud of them,” Brockamp
said. “We played physical and
tackled well, but you can’t lose
players like Corey Hafer and
Chandler (Burns) without it af-
fecting you. Even so, we made it
Coach Brockamp
to the quarter¿nals two years in
a row and we’re league champi-
ons two years in a row.”
The team’s turnaround from
its 0-8 2013 season was a point
of pride for Brockamp.
“With these kids we’ve
changed the culture of Wallowa
football, and that’s the job we set
out to do,” he said.
The Cougars ended the
2015 season with a 7-3 record
and 4-0 league record. The Pi-
rates improved to 10-0.
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¿ed the Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife and Oregon
State Police that he’d shot a
wolf while hunting coyotes on
private property south of Prairie
City. Police recovered a wolf’s
remains on the property.
Oregon’s action to remove
wolves from the state endan-
gered species list has no ap-
parent bearing on the case.
Wolves were listed under the
state Endangered Species $ct
at the time of the shooting; the
ODFW Commission on Nov.
9 removed wolves from the
state list. Regardless, they re-
mained on the federal endan-
gered species list in the west-
ern two-thirds of the state.
The wolf was identi¿ed as
OR-22, a male that has worn a
GPS tracking collar since Oc-
tober 2013 and dispersed from
the Umatilla Pack in Febru-
ary 2015. He was in Malheur
County for awhile, then trav-
eled into Grant County.
Wildlife biologists don’t
believe he had a mate of
pups. Young or sub-dominant
wolves often leave their home
packs to establish their own
territory and ¿nd mates.
OR-22 was the third Ore-
gon wolf known to have died
since $ugust, when the Sled
Springs pair in Northeast Or-
egon were found dead of un-
known cause. The state now
has a minimum of 82 wolves.
FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS
Class 1A
4XDUWHUÀQDOV1RY
No. 1 Adrian 53, No. 8 Powers 8
No. 4 Crane 50, No. 5 Hosanna
Christian 6
No. 6 Perrydale 42, No. 3
Wallowa 36
No. 7 Dufur 74, No. 2 Yoncalla
72
6HPLÀQDOV1RY
No. 1 Adrian vs. No. 4 Crane,
3 p.m. at Hermiston
No. 6 Perrydale vs. No. 7 Dufur,
noon at Hillsboro
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Oregon forest on Jan. 26. The lone wolf spent several weeks
in Malheur County before heading from Grant County. It was
shot south of Prairie City by a man hunting coyotes.
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DEC. 5
The annual Ski, Snow-
board & Ice Skate Swap is
scheduled for 10 a.m. to 1
p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5 at Odd
Fellows Hall in Enterprise.
Skis, boots, poles, snow-
boards, ski/snowboard cloth-
ing, ice skates and hockey
gear will be available. To sell
gear, drop it off Dec. 5 from 8
to 10 a.m. at the Odd Fellows
Hall. If unsold, pick it up be-
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up will be donated to Soropti-
mist Thrift Shop. The swap is
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of proceeds going to Eagle
Cap Ski Club and Wallowa
Valley Community Ice Rink.
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