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Man dies in fall

  • By Neita Cecil The Dalles Chronicle
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A 28-year-old man from Battleground, Wash., fell perhaps 90 feet to his death Saturday at the Rowena Crest viewpoint, after climbing over a concrete barrier and onto a rock ledge to get a better picture, an official said.

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ODOT rockfall work at Rowena wraps up Jan. 22

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The Dalles — Construction crews returned to the scene of a big rockfall along U.S. Highway 30 near Rowena Crest last week. They installed a steel screen to prevent the kind of rock slide that happened last spring, putting motorists at risk and forcing a closure of the highway. The work wrapped up Monday, Jan. 22.