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129 new cases
Total COVID-19 cases as of Sunday, Jan. 10:
Deschutes County cases: 4,541 (51 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 27 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 530 (zero new cases)
Crook County deaths: 8 (zero new deaths)
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Hikers return to a scenic Oregon spot after a massive fire
EAGLE CREEK TRAIL
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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.
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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.