• Fish Lake snow depth as of Monday, Jan. 23: 8' 6"
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Trail groomed on Monday and plans for grooming Jan. 25
NOW OPEN: Stephanie's Bakery Featuring Freshly-Baked Goodies for Breakfast
and
Homemade Soups and Salads for Lunch
Open Tuesday-Saturday 7:30 AM to 2:30 PM
Main & Record Streets, Halfway 541-742-7437
Experience Oregon's Wilder Side with the recreation specialists of Eastern Oregon. Step back to a less hurried time in Baker County's Pandhandle, which stretches from Hells Canyon (deepest gorge in North America) to the old gold minning town of Cornucopia in the beautiful Eagle Cap Wilderness Area of the Wallowa Mountains, to the the havens of Richland and Halfway.
The area is filled with lots of adventure opportunities, including:
camping
hiking
cross-country skiing
bicycling
water sports
float trips
hunting
snowmobiling
fishing
white-water rafting
mountain climbing
A lake hike, a lodge, a ghost town: Adventures in Cornucopia, Oregon
By Abby Haight
Oregon's unusually late snowfall has been a bane to backpackers, who have found normally open trails still buried in snow and have had to delay, again and again, favorite high-elevation trips.
But if the snowfall behaved more predictably, we wouldn't have sunned on warm granite steps at Pine Lakes in the Wallowa Mountains wilderness, nor met Bill and Peggy Barnett, with their open-arms hospitality and to-die-for bread pudding.
On the advice of a furnace installer -- he swore the Pine Lakes were the prettiest view in the Wallowas and the Cornucopia Lodge served the best dinner -- we drove 6 1/2 hours from Portland to the lodge, just outside Halfway near the Oregon-Idaho border.
