Lyndsay Levy and her husband Denny Schuler and two children had just
finished their stay at their cabin on Lolo Pass.

It was the day after Valentine’s Day and they stopped at the Barlow Trail
Roadhouse for dinner before continuing their trek back to their Portland home.
Denny and Jake, 14, pulled out of the roadhouse and Lyndsay and Hannah,
12, were supposed to be right behind.

“I got in the car when my daughter screamed ‘There’s ice all over the back,’”
Lyndsay told The Mountain Times. “It wasn’t snowing or anything and I
looked, and said ‘No, that’s glass.’ It was everywhere.”

This incident was just one of a recent rash of car break-ins at local restaurants
that have reached epidemic proportions.

Since the Christmas holiday, The Skyway, The Shack, Zigzag Mountain Store
and the Brightwood Tavern have had a looter, or looters, hit cars in their
parking lots around the dinner hour.

The Barlow Trail Roadhouse incident was captured by an outdoor surveillance
camera (see above), in a streaming video that showed a woman wearing a
hooded sweatshirt, smoking a cigarette, walking with purpose across the
parking lot carrying items from Levy’s Volvo wagon.

Levy was able to identify the items being toted by the suspect.

“She took a lot of stuff, as we had brought along clothes, toiletries, jackets
and luggage up to the cabin,” Levy said. “Most importantly, there was the
kids’ school work, IPods and backpacks.”

Levy found some solace in that most of the clothes won’t do the woman much
good.

“I saw the video of her, and she won’t be able to use a lot of the clothes
because they were mostly the kids’ clothes,” she said. “So for some of it, at

least, she just got a plain old can of stupid.”

But there was plenty of annoyance to go along with that.

“We’re out about $1,000 as insurance doesn’t cover it,” she said. “Plus, we
had to call teachers and explain the missing homework of our children. No one
can feel good after being robbed. It pisses me off. Sometimes I get tired of
being robbed on the Mountain.”

The Levy’s and Schuler’s cabin on Lolo Pass was burglarized last year.
Tracie Anderson and Tom Baker, co-owners of The Skyway, suffered three
parking lot break-ins that occurred over the Christmas holidays, with another
one coming in late January.

They began foot patrol security immediately, Anderson said, and have
recently ordered an outdoor surveillance system.

“We’re conducting sweeps around the parking lot, especially during the dinner
hour because that’s when they all seem to be happening,” Anderson said.

“Whoever they are, they need to know we’re not messing around anymore.”

The incidents were reported to the Clackamas Sheriff’s Office, and according
to Anderson, they are beefing up patrols.