{"id":38887,"date":"2026-06-15T06:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=38887"},"modified":"2026-06-15T06:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:43:13","slug":"uniquely-ochoco-mts-walton-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goatbells.blog\/?p=38887","title":{"rendered":"Uniquely Ochoco Mts – Walton Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For several nights, my sister, her partner and I camped at Walton Lake <\/a>in the OR Ochoco Mountains. This was my third visit in four years, and their first time. Seasonally, this was the latest I’d been there even though same on the calendar. Snow was complete gone even above 7,000 ft. Large mammals non-existent, except for a one deer at the Lookout Mt TH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walton Lake campground is dark, very dark (no electricity anywhere close); the stars explode over you at night. The campground itself is split in half with the more ‘modern’ sites on one side of the lake and the more primitive (tents mostly) on the other. We stayed the entire time on the ‘tent’ side. Directly opposite the eagles’ nest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These eagle parents behaved oddly. They never sat ‘in the nest’ but one was always perched high above the lake. The first 2 days we didn’t see them hunt – fish or ducks. Then later, they caught a couple fish and just dropped in nest. Every morning their cries came before most birds and then one adult would fly off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n