OUTDOORS & REC B2 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD OVGARD Continued from Page B1 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- SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 2022 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. Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald Sign up for every single CaughtOvgard column at www.patreon.com/Caugh- tOvgard. Read more for free at caughtovgard.com; Follow on Instagram and Fishbrain @lukeovgard;Contact luke. ovgard@gmail.com. Black Mountain rises above the southeast corner of Phillips Reser- voir on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022. SHOELESS Continued from Page B1 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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