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Spotify launched its
highly popular personal-
ized infographics summa-
rizing individual listeners’
“Year in Music” at the end
of 2016, and I loved the idea.
They named it “Spotify
Wrapped,” and it quickly
became something to look
forward to every year. I
loved the idea so much so
that I created my own per-
sonalized infographics sum-
marizing my “Year in Fish”
or “Fishcal Year,” launching
the graphics in 2017.
This year marks my
fi fth-annual “CaughtOv-
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gard Finfographics,” and
although I may be biased, I
think these are the best yet.
Since there are eight info-
graphics, and they take
up a lot of space, I’ll wind
the column down here. As
always, please feel free to let
me know what you think.
God bless in 2022, and
I hope your year looks
at least as good as these
fi nfographics.
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Black Mountain rises above the southeast corner of Phillips Reser-
voir on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022.
SHOELESS
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ground, creating an
unfortunate and awkward
stance that my aging hips
don’t cotton to at all.
I understand the
obvious question here.
Why didn’t we just
go back and get the
snowshoes?
I have no answer —
not a cogent one, anyway.
All I can off er by way
of explanation is the same
pathetic plea that people
tend to give when they
put themselves in a posi-
tion over which they had
total control.
By the time it got
annoying it just seemed
too onerous to turn
around.
Olivia, who is savvy
enough to not complain
in such a situation, in
fact declared the hike a
success.
She also off ered the
clever, albeit obnoxious
to her parents, suggestion
that since we didn’t wear
snowshoes we got more
exercise.
I couldn’t deny this
claim on purely cardio-
vascular grounds.
But I pointed out that
had we worn snowshoes
we could have gone con-
siderably farther, get-
ting even better views of
the spectacular winter
scenery and ultimately
burning a comparable
number of calories.
On the way back we
To get to Phillips Reser-
voir, drive south from Baker
City on Highway 7, toward
Sumpter. Between Mileposts
35 and 34 (the numbers get
lower the farther from Baker
City), and just at the top of
the grade next to Mason
Dam, turn left onto the
access road for the Mason
Damp boat ramp. There’s
ample parking. The shore-
line trail starts just above the
restroom. There is no fee to
park or to use the trail.
detoured down to the res-
ervoir. It’s a much longer
detour than usual, since
the drought dropped Phil-
lips to its lowest level
since it fi rst fi lled in 1968.
The ice, based on the
remnants of a few ice-
fi shing holes, was several
inches thick.
I thought, as I inevi-
tably do on the rare occa-
sions when I’m standing
on a frozen body of water,
of the scenes in “Grumpy
Old Men” of the tempo-
rary towns of ice fi shing
shanties that spring up
each winter in the frigid
Great Lakes region.
Our ice-fi shing culture
isn’t quite so formal, but
Phillips is a fi ne spot to
pursue the pastime.
As we trudged back
along a well-trodden path
to the parking lot, Lisa
and I agreed that it was a
beautiful place to spend
a couple hours of a Jan-
uary day.
And that we would
never do it again.
Not without snowshoes.
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