STEVENSON — At 76, author Linda Jo Hunter is hard to catch up with. If she’s not out paddling in the Sea of Cortez (winters in Baja), she’s in the deep woods of Washington (her summer home), trailing a bear on her eBike to discover what it’s eating and when.
At 20 years old, Pete Fromm heard of a job babysitting salmon eggs for seven winter months alone in a tent in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. He leapt at the chance to be a mountain man, even with no experience in the wilds. Thirteen years later, he published a memoir of that winter, “Indian Creek Chronicles.”
What survival skills would you need if you were exploring the untamed wilderness? Kids ages 9 to 12 can learn through the “Finding Yourself in the Gorge” summer camp Aug. 22-25, held at Columbia Gorge Discovery Center from 9 a.m. to noon.
If I have learned anything in all my years of wandering in wilderness, it’s that there is the plan for the day and then there is what actually happens. And while I have come to expect the unexpected, the gift that came from putting fear aside on a hot August night in 2004 still resonates deep in the marrow of my memory.
BEND (AP) — A proposed federal wilderness area encircling Oregon's Painted Hills has won the backing of local leaders, but a lot more needs to happen for it to be created. The Wheeler County Court and the city of Mitchell recently voted to support the Sutton Mountain Wilderness. The federal designation of a wilderness, however, requires an act of Congress and approval by the president.
