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A2 THE BULLETIN • MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2021 The Bulletin How to reach us LOCAL, STATE & REGION DESCHUTES COUNTY CIRCULATION Didn’t receive your paper? Start or stop subscription? 541-385-5800 6 a.m.-noon Tuesday-Friday 7 a.m.-noon Saturday-Sunday and holidays 130 (Dec. 4) What is COVID-19? It’s an infection caused by a new coronavirus. Coronaviruses are a group of viruses that can cause a range of symptoms. Some usually cause mild illness. Some, like this one, can cause more severe symptoms and can be fatal. Symptoms include fever, coughing and shortness of breath. 120 108 new cases (Jan. 1) 110 90 new cases 100 (Nov. 27) 7 ways to help limit its spread: 1. Wash hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. 2. Avoid touching your face. 3. Avoid close contact with sick people. 4. Stay home. 5. In public, stay 6 feet from others and wear a cloth face covering or mask. 6. Cover a cough or sneeze with a tissue or cough into your elbow. 7. 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Box 6020 Bend, OR 97708 Phone ......................................... 541-617-7829 BACK ON THE Hikers return to a scenic Oregon spot after a massive fire EAGLE CREEK TRAIL A BY JAMIE HALE The Oregonian break in the weather afforded an opportu- nity to get outside last week, and for many, that meant a long-awaited return to Eagle Creek. The Eagle Creek Trail, long con- sidered one of the best hiking trails in Oregon, reopened on New Year’s Day more than three years after closing due to the devastating Eagle Creek Fire. In the week since, crowds have flocked to the hiking trail for a glimpse at the majestic waterfalls and moss-covered cliffs that made the area famous in the first place. On Thursday, crowds flocked to the hiking area, taking advantage of a break in the rain to get out- side. All parking areas around the trailhead filled before 9 a.m., and foot traffic along the trail remained steady throughout the morning and afternoon. The crowds and limited parking compound the challenges of hiking the Eagle Creek Trail, a treacherous trail that requires peo- ple to take precautions both before and during their excursion. Anyone who has hiked through the Columbia River Gorge since the Eagle Creek Fire will be unsurprised by the scene at Eagle Creek. The wildfire burned in a mosaic pattern, with some areas badly burned while others seem untouched. The forest around Eagle is no- ticeably thinner than it was before the fire, with less brush beneath the trees and many dead, black- ened trunks that will eventually fall, thinning out the forest even more. While there’s more severe damage on the hills across the creek, much of the forest alongside the trail has fared well. There are still healthy patches of ferns, and green moss still coats the drizzling cliffs. Aside from a few big logjams and one massive landslide below Punch Bowl Falls, Eagle Creek itself still Jamie Hale/The Oregonian Hikers return to the Eagle Creek Trail in the Columbia River Gorge, more than three years after the trail closed due to the Eagle Creek Fire. flows magnificently — especially following the winter rain. Rain remains an environmental challenge facing the Eagle Creek Trail, often causing landslides and rockslides. Stream crossings can be another problem during the rainy season, some of which require tricky crossings across logs and slippery rocks. U.S. Forest Service officials ask that people avoid burn areas like the Eagle Creek Trail following heavy rains or winter storms. Hikers should also show up prepared with essen- tials and proper clothing, like rain jackets and waterproof hiking boots. Face masks are also required when people are unable to keep at least 6 feet from those not in their household, to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Given the extremely narrow trail and crowded condi- tions, it’s impossible to maintain that distance while passing other hik- ers. On Thursday, almost all hikers wore face coverings, pulling them up while passing others or keeping them on the whole time. Making the Eagle Creek Trail safe to reopen was a significant achieve- ment for officials in the Columbia Gorge, following several years of collaboration between the U.S. For- est Service and the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, with work done by the Pacific Crest Trail Association, Trailkeepers of Ore- gon, Washington Trails Association and Friends of the Columbia Gorge, forest officials said, allowing hikers to once again access one of Oregon’s oldest and most storied hiking trails. The Eagle Creek Trail was con- structed with the Eagle Creek Camp- ground, the first developed camp- ground on public lands in the United States, which opened to the public in 1916. Crews built the trail by blasting the basalt cliffs over Eagle Creek near its confluence with the Columbia River, offering easy public access to one of the most scenic waterfall cor- ridors in the Pacific Northwest. On Sept. 2, 2017, the trail gained fame as the ignition point of the Ea- gle Creek Fire. A teenager started the fire after tossing a firecracker into a canyon off the trail, igniting a blaze that burned more than 48,000 acres in the Columbia River Gorge, torching forests around popular hiking areas on the Oregon side of the river. Hundreds of people were evacuated, and 176 hikers required rescue as the blaze quickly spread. CORRECTIONS The Bulletin’s primary concern is that all stories are accurate. If you know of an error in a story, call us at 541-383-0367. 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They may not be reproduced without explicit prior approval. ý Lottery results can now be found on the second page of Sports. ‘I tucked away my press IDs’ The Capitol siege as told from a former Oregon journalist’s viewpoint “I realized, ‘They won’t be able to keep them out,’” he said. As a part of an insurrection, a mob of When he returned to the House people pushed past police to breach the chambers for the last time, he could U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday, as hear protesters had entered the build- lawmakers were in the process ing. It was a “high-stress” situa- of certifying Joe Biden’s victory tion, he said. over President Donald Trump. “You would hear snippets of Legislators were escorted to information over police radio,” safety, and although they even- he said. “Reports kept coming tually proceeded with the vote, in, and they were getting more the siege left at least five dead. and more alarming — calls for At least one former Oregon backup, updates that things Lockwood resident was at the Capitol on were getting out of control, re- Wednesday not as a protester ports that tear gas had been or a lawmaker, but as a journalist. deployed.” Frank E. Lockwood, a Hermiston Soon, Capitol Police down below High School graduate who covered were using heavy furniture to barricade sports for the East Oregonian during the doors into the chamber as protest- high school in the 1980s, is the Wash- ers smashed the windows around the ington, D.C., correspondent for the doors. Lockwood and others looking Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He said down on the scene from above had not Wednesday he was rotating between been able to be evacuated at the same listening to speeches in the House and time as lawmakers on the floor, but Senate, and each time he walked past eventually they were evacuated as well. the windows facing outside the build- Knowing that some of the crowd was ing, he could see an unruly crowd caught on film physically assaulting growing larger. members of the media in the past year, BY ANTONIO SIERRA AND JADE MCDOWELL East Oregonian including in videos of the Wednesday riot that later emerged, Lockwood said he was concerned for his safety if the crowd breached the undisclosed loca- tion they were evacuated to. “I took off my tie. I took off my suit jacket. I tucked away my press IDs, I figured I would be more likely to blend in that way,” he said. He said he was grateful for many he encountered during the experience, in- cluding the Capitol Police and congres- sional staffers who led people to safety, and a lawmaker who offered him a spare mask when he realized he had lost his while donning one of the gas masks everyone was instructed to pull from under their seat in the chamber. When the building was eventually cleared and Congress returned to work, Lockwood did too. When he finished covering the certification of the elec- tion results and left, it was 3:45 a.m. Thursday, and he realized, due to the curfew imposed by the mayor, that it wasn’t possible for him to catch a taxi or Uber. So he waited until the sub- way reopened and returned home after 6 a.m. to be greeted by his very con- cerned dog. Lockwood got his first interest in politics as a 13-year-old in Hermiston, when he had a long conversation with prominent Hermiston resident Joe Burns about the results of the 1980 elec- tion, when Ronald Reagan beat Pres- ident Jimmy Carter. His father, Frank Lockwood Sr., is a former Hermiston Herald reporter, and Lockwood Jr. wrote sports stories for the East Orego- nian during his high school years for his first taste of journalism. “I helped cover the game when Hermiston beat Pendleton (at football) for the first time in living memory,” he said. Since graduating and leaving Herm- iston, he said his experiences as a jour- nalist in Washington, D.C., have often felt surreal, including attendance at inaugurations, State of the Union ad- dresses, and an interview with Trump in the Oval Office. Second only to his experience being in D.C. on Sept. 11, 2001, he said Jan. 6, 2021, will always be a particularly memorable day.