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Postponed: Trails Day—Spencer Butte

  • Start date: 06/05/2010

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 06/05/2010

  • End time: 11:59 PM

  • Event Leader: Bell Matt

  • 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: 1

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 500

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Trail Maintenance

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

For National Trails Day an impressive turnout of 20 volunteers joined two city staffers to form a "Bucket Brigade" to move gravel up the West Spencer Butte Trail.

We brought gravel up to the lowest section of fencing, the farthest a powered-wheelbarrow can go up the trail. From there the buckets were filled and passed up the trail. Each volunteer took a short section of trail and walked the partially filled buckets to the next person.

Though each bucket of gravel was only partially full, our efforts led to 32 ft. of the trail graveled in about three hours. This was the first time since maybe the mid-90s that any work has been done on the upper stretched of the West trail.

In celebration of the day's achievement most of the group summitted the butte before heading back to the parking lot for snacks.

Participants: Bob Cherney, Anne Blakely, Connie Morehouse, John Willard, Karma Tshering, and Rinzin Wangchuk (nonmembers); Janet Jacobsen, John Jacobsen, Bill McWhorter, John Moser, Dalen Willhite, Chris Molly, Laurie Funkhouser, Dan Christensen, Lana Lindstrom, Pat Soussan, Richard Hughes, Tom Boyd, and Tom O'Brien (members); and Matthew Bell (leader).

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Morehouse, Connie 541-556-3786 N —
2 Signed-Up Blakely, Anne — N —
3 Signed-Up Cherney, Bob — N —
4 Signed-Up Tshering, Karma — N —
5 Signed-Up Wangchuk, Rinzin — N —
6 Signed-Up Willard, John — N —
7 Signed-Up Willhite, Dalen 406-570-4514 N —
8 Signed-Up Lindstrom, Lana 541-683-1409 N —
9 Signed-Up Jacobsen, Janet 541-206-1251 N —
10 Signed-Up McWhorter, Bill 541-345-8099 N —
11 Signed-Up Jacobsen, John 541-914-1132 N —
12 Signed-Up Christensen, Dan 541-343-8941 N —
13 Signed-Up Hughes, Richard 541-579-3098 N —
14 Signed-Up Funkhouser, Laurie 541-206-2303 N —
15 Signed-Up Soussan, Pat 541-653-7997 N —
16 Signed-Up Bell, Matt 503-884-8829 N —
17 Signed-Up Molly, Christopher 541-221-3204 N —
18 Signed-Up Moser, John 541-343-7276 N —
19 Signed-Up O'Brien, Tom 607-435-2324 N —
20 Signed-Up Boyd, Tom 541-345-3946 N —