WW presents “Distant Voices,” a daily video interview for the era of social distancing. Our reporters are asking Portlanders what they’re doing during quarantine. On a cold October morning in the Elkhorn Mountains, Renee Patrick woke up to a problem. Patrick had already been hiking in Eastern Oregon for weeks, pioneering the new, 566-mile Blue Mountains Trail. She was expecting temperatures to drop below freezing as she slept. But when she woke up and went to get water from nearby Black Lake, she found something she had never seen in her 10,000-plus miles of thru-hiking experience: The entire lake had frozen solid overnight