It was a spur of the moment decision.
Bill Van Moorhem, Gary Vequist and I debated what to do next — leave the snow-covered parking area and drive off in search...
KLAMATH FALLS — After spending more than three decades involved in Klamath Tribes matters, including the past nine years as chairman of the Klamath Tribes Counc...
What’s in a name?
The usually reliable book “Oregon Geographic Names” reports Telephone Flat, located in the Fremont-Winema National Forest between Klamath Fa...
Laying siege to the Castle was literally and physically an uphill battle.
Our siege wasn’t in the style of Medieval warfare or a dastardly Russian invasion. In...
Most days Jason Hardrath is a physical education teacher at Bonanza Elementary School, a small community in Klamath County.
But when he’s not teaching, the 33-y...
KLAMATH FALLS — It’s a very small park, but one rich with history.
When it was created in 1994 atop Old Fort Road four miles from downtown Klamath Falls, the or...
Heavy spring snows have stalled road opening efforts at Crater Lake National Park.
Marsha McCabe, the park’s information officer, said that as of Thursday the p...
It was one of the driest of the dry winters.
Even though heavy snow fell Monday at Crater Lake National Park, snow records are being set at the park this season...
Not every outing goes as planned.
Our goal was Hayden Mountain, a 5,134-foot hill — it’s not really a classic “peak” — off Highway 66 about 39 miles east of Ash...
If visitors to Crater Lake National Park see smoke in coming weeks and months, it’s likely because the park is conducting prescribed burns.
Park officials said ...
KLAMATH FALLS — It’s not just the fish and the farmers who are thirsty.
A towering giant sequoia tree — its water-starved core, limbs and branches obviously dea...
It wasn’t part of the original plan, but when the road to the Bad Lands became, surprisingly, too snowy, we made a U-turn and wondered where to go next.
The Bad...
The downhill ski and snowboard season is coming to an end, but plans are already being made for the winter of 2022-23.
The Mt. Ashland Ski Area will close for t...
Mention the Klamath Hills to most people, including those who’ve lived in or near the Klamath Basin for decades, then wait for the quizzical look. And, after a ...
Public comments are being requested by the National Park Service on a project to update the Oregon Caves National Monument & Preserve Fire Management Plan.
Acco...
National Park Service Director Charles ”Chuck” Sams III visited Crater Lake National Park this past week.
Sams, the Park Service’s first Native American directo...
It’s almost time.
Dale Baker is counting the days when, from a remote desert location on the border of Mexico and New Mexico, he’ll begin heading north for a fi...
The day was sunny and surprisingly spring-like warm. Even better, the snow was the stuff of fluff — powdery and light, just perfect for cross-country skiing.
We...
When Tatsuo Ryusei Inouye was taken at gunpoint from his barracks at the World War II Tule Lake Segregation Center, he didn’t know why or for how long he’d be h...
LAVA BEDS NATIONAL MONUMENT — Alvan Gillem’s time as the U.S. Army’s commanding officer during the Modoc War was regarded as a failure. But ironically, one of t...
