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The boat launch on the east shore of Anthony Lake won’t have much
use for boats for a while, as more than 5 feet of snow still covered
the ground on May 8, 2022.
enjoying the cool patch as
we might do on a torrid
August afternoon, yet we
were standing atop snow-
drifts that surely topped six
feet in places.
We continued east,
roughly following the
summer trail but feeling
no pressure to do so, as a
person does when there is
an actual path to conform
to.
This is perhaps my
favorite part of snow-
shoeing. The drifts render
irrelevant almost all the
obstacles that could stymie
a summer hiker — the
fallen logs and rocks and
boggy patches that can
create a labyrinth of things
capable of infl icting all
manner of orthopedic
injuries.
It is refreshing to plot
your own route through
the forest, which at high
SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2022
elevations is rather sparse
anyway, the trees slender
but for the occasional hoary
old Engelmann spruce.
We found the spot where
a sign marks the junction of
the Elkhorn Crest Trail and
the path that branches off to
Anthony Lake.
What we didn’t fi nd was
the sign itself.
I recognized the tell-
tale hump in the snow, but
although we spent several
minutes hacking ineff ectu-
ally at the snow we never
did uncover it. The sign
has long been a bellwether
for me, a tangible symbol
of how close summer is to
assuming its brief ascen-
dancy in this land where ice
and snow reign.
That evening back at
home a storm swept in,
heavy with snow, and for
a few hours it might well
have been January. Only the
bright green new leaves of
the willows, clotted tempo-
rarily with white, betrayed
the illusion.
Lisa Britton/Baker City Herald
Snowshoeing through the forest near Anthony Lake on May 8, 2022.
I thought of where we
had walked just a few hours
earlier, wondered whether
the fl akes were falling there
too, fi lling in our prints and
restoring to that place the
visage of winter that is its
true face.
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