Closing your eyes makes it less scary during the slide down the hill at Clark Creek Park on Saturday Jan. 13, 2024 (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter) (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)
Salem received a dusting of snow Saturday with temperatures lingering around 19 degrees. Despite ongoing freezing rain, some local ventured to neighborhood parks to enjoy sledding.
An intrepid driver slowly navigates an icy street in Salem on Saturday Jan. 13, 2024 (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)A sledder sizes up the run at a Clark Creek Park on Saturday Jan. 13, 2024 (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)Dual purpose dog walking and tobogganing on Saturday Jan. 13, 2024 (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)An Oregon junco, a native bird to the Willamette Valley, puffs up and toughs it out scratching through snow for birdseed at a local feeder on January 13, 2024 (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)Intrepid Salemites sled at Clark Creek Park on Saturday Jan. 13, 2024 (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)The view looking down the sled run at Clark Creek Park on Saturday Jan. 13, 2024 (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)A boogie board serves as an excellent stand in for a sled on January 13, 2024 (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)Deserted streets at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024 attest to most Salemites staying home (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)Slow and cautious was the driving rule on Saturday, Jan. 13 in Salem (Laura Tesler/Special to Salem Reporter)Snow on the Willamette University campus on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024 (Abbey McDonald/Salem Reporter)Snow surrounds the Oregon Capitol the afternoon of Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024 (Abbey McDonald/Salem Reporter)Snow and ice surround a storm drain on Northeast 17th Street during a winter storm on Saturday, Jan. 13 (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter)Snow on the Willamette University campus on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024 (Abbey McDonald/Salem Reporter)A train passes through central Salem during a winter storm the afternoon of Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024 (Abbey McDonald/Salem Reporter)
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Laura Tesler has lived in Salem, Oregon for 20 years and is originally from Flint, MI. Laura has been an underwater photographer for 15 years, and is an avid scuba diver. Topside, she has been taking photographs since age 12, and currently works on assignment for the Salem Reporter, and full time purchasing land for fish and wildlife habitat in the Willamette Valley. Laura attended Oregon State University, and has traveled extensively all over the world and the United States.
