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BEND, Ore. — Dexter Burke has a simple answer when asked what draws him to backcountry skiing. “Expensive lift tickets,” he said. For that reason, and certainly many others, backcountry skiing has become increasingly popular over the last few years in Oregon and throughout the West. Burke, born and raised in Bend and a backcountry skier for more than 20 years, hopes his new book, “Oregon Ski Atlas,” will encourage more skiers and snowboarders to venture out on some of the more remote Cascade peaks in Oregon.

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Forest Road 370 gate at Todd Lake opening for vehicle access to Broken Top Trailhead for the season US Forest Service BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District on the Deschutes National Forest said it plans Thursday to unlock the gate at Todd Lake to open Forest Service Road 4600-370 to FSR 4601, which provides driving access to popular Three Sisters Wilderness trailheads, including the Broken Top Trailhead. FSR 370 and the road leading to the gate are very rough roads, FSR 370 with sections through which low clearance vehicles cannot travel. The Forest Service does not maintai...

Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Deschutes County Sheriff's Search and Rescue helps put an injured hiker aboard an Air Link helicopter near Broken Hand on Friday BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Deschutes County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue had a busy Friday night, with three simultaneous rescue missions for an injured hiker near Broken Top, a lost hiker near the South Sister Climbers Trail and a lost motorist east of Bend. Shortly before 6 p.m., a sheriff’s office Special Services deputy was dispatched to assist an injured hiker near Broken Hand, a small peak northeast of Broken Top, said Deputy Sh...

Discovering a Glacier and What It Means for Local Water  In honor of the Water Issue, a local glacial scientist talks about the recent discovery on South Sister Late in the summer of 2020, a team of glacier experts, including Anders Carlson and Aaron Hartz, discovered a new glacier on South Sister in the Oregon Cascades. Finding a new glacier in Norway is no big deal, says Carlson, an Oregonian and the president of Oregon Glaciers Institute—but finding one in the Oregon Cascades is noteworthy. To Carlson, it's a sign of how little time we spend investigating our own backyard.