Past Activity

Spencer Butte

Start date: 01/30/2010
Start time: 12:00 AM
End date: 01/30/2010
End time: 11:59 PM

Event Leader: Matt Bell
Event Leader Phone: 503-884-8829
Event Leader Email: matthew.v.bell@gmail.com
Assistant Leader:
Event category: Trail Maintenance
Area Type: Urban
Departure Location: See Trip Description
Rating: Moderate
Roundtrip total drive miles:
Season: 2010
Permits Required:
Event Status: Passed
Supplies and Equipment Required:
participant prerequisites:
Conditions:
Total Distance: 3
Member Fees: —
Elevation Gain: 500
Non-Member Fees: —
Committee: Trail Maintenance
Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

An impressive turnout (13 volunteers) greeted a dreary day on Spencer Butte. The days project was to continue working along the main trail just below the treeline to improve the trailbed, make the trail passable for power-wheelbarrows, and plant native plants to help rehabilitate overused unofficial side trails.

The day was very eventful including, a power-wheelbarrow that wouldn't start, a thrown track on the other, and rain on a trail maintenance outing. In the collective memory of Obsidian Trail Maintenance Volunteers it had never actually rained during a trail maintenance outing before, I guess there is a first time for everything.

We accomplished a lot of work packing in all of the supplies and were able to improve another 40 feet of trail which is now ready to be graveled.

Participants: Rick McMonagle, Thomas Veeman, Mariah Thompson, Alex Lockfield, Matthew Lockfield, and Connie Morehouse nonmembers; Janet Jacobsen, Jim Pierce, and Charlene Pierce members; Matthew Bell leader; Christer LaBrecque and Lorna Baldwin EPOS.