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• B SECTION • FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 2021
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Bend’s Mark
Johnson hikes
along Paulina
Creek east of
La Pine.
Walking among
water
wonders
PETER SKENE OGDEN NATIONAL SCENIC TRAIL
Several starting points
exist for hikers, but
we opted for McKay
TRAILS
hree years had
Crossing, located about
passed since I last hiked the
a third of the way up the trail
Peter Skene Ogden National
at a picturesque campground.
Scenic Trail along Paulina Creek It was about a half-hour drive
with my friend Mark Johnson.
from Bend.
Time goes by awfully fast
The Peter Skene Ogden Trail
these days. Still, it had been
was named after a trapper with
long enough to forget the de-
the Hudson’s Bay Company
tails of the numerous water
who made the first recorded
wonders that line the 9.4-mile
trip into Central Oregon in
trail just outside the Newberry
1825, according to the Ore-
National Volcanic Monument
gon Historical Society. Ogden
east of La Pine.
crossed the Crooked River
Paulina Creek flows with
country to the northeast. The
abandon out of Paulina Lake,
city of Ogden, Utah, is also
starting with Paulina Creek
named after him.
Falls and then surging west
Starting out from McKay
downhill to form numerous
Crossing Campground, we fol-
smaller waterfalls and water
lowed a wide trail that took us
features.
through an area that included
Johnson and I set out last Fri- smaller, second-growth pine
day for a half-day hike along
trees. This makes for a poten-
the trail, which runs from Og-
tially hot section of trail, and we
den Group Site at its west end
were getting a bit of a late start.
to Paulina Lake at its east end.
See Water / B12
BY MARK MORICAL
The Bulletin
T
Mark Morical/Bulletin photos
Wildflowers grow near a small waterfall along Paulina Creek.