Explore Oregon Podcast: Winter arrives, plus the glory and pain of Umpqua Hot Springs
In this episode of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness breaks down the incoming blizzard and beginning of winter recreation season, along with a feature on the glory and trouble of Umpqua Hot Springs.
In the first half, Zach talks about the incoming snow, what impact it will have on winter recreation in Oregon and some suggestions for snowy places to travel.
In the second half, Zach talks about a feature he just wrote on the glorious but troubled Umpqua Hot Springs in southern Oregon. Zach talks about how to get to the hot springs in winter — when the hot springs are quieter — and about the abuse that the hot springs and soakers endured around 2015 and '16.
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Zach Urness has been an outdoors reporter in Oregon for 15 years and is host of the Explore Oregon Podcast. To support his work, subscribe to the Statesman Journal. Urness is the author of “Best Hikes with Kids: Oregon” and “Hiking Southern Oregon.” He can be reached at zurness@StatesmanJournal.com or (503) 399-6801. Find him on Twitter at @ZachsORoutdoors.
This article originally appeared on Salem Statesman Journal: Podcast: Winter begins, plus the glory and pain of Umpqua Hot Springs
