CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK — How it started, I don’t know.

CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK — Carefree and car-free days return to Crater Lake National Park again Saturday when 25 miles of Rim Drive, the road the loops around the lake, is closed to motor vehicles.

Every 212.35 days, shadows take life, terror grabs the reigns and we’re all expected to act as though living out a day carefully manufactured by H.P. Lovecraft.

It was the final morning of our too-brief four-day camping stay in the Central Oregon Cascades. Each of the three previous days Steve Underwood and I had enjoyed a series of sometimes challenging but always dazzlingly scenic hikes.

CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK — Carefree and car-free days return to Crater Lake National Park again in September when 25 miles of Rim Drive, the road the loops around the lake, is closed to motor vehicles.

The Klamath Basin Audubon Society will host its next program at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10 at Fisher Nicholson Realty, 403 Main St. There will be light refreshments, socializing and book sales followed by a brief business meeting and program, according to a news release.

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Atop a low ridge in the heart of Oregon’s Blue Mountains, Michael McWilliams pushes through brittle branches and scrambles over toppled logs and decay. Bare trunks tower overhead, but the U.S. Forest Service pathologist focuses low. He’s searching for something that lurks underfoot, hidden d…

BONANZA — Winston Churchill once said, “History is told by the victors,” but that’s not entirely true. History is told by the survivors.

Sometimes it’s easy to overlook the enticing beauty that’s close to home.