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Obsidian Limited Entry Area II

  • Start date: 08/30/2013

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 09/01/2013

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

This will be our second trail maintenance activity this season into the Obsidian Limited Entry Area (Obsidian Trail) off of McKenzie Pass. On Friday morning we'll pick up our tools at the ranger station at 9AM before backpacking in 6 miles to our basecamp. Over the course of the weekend we'll be working on a restoration project in the Sunshine Meadows area where we'll be placing check dams to rehabilitate a user trail. We'll be joined by other McKenzie Wilderness Volunteers as well as Forest Service Wilderness Rangers. We'll backpack out on Sunday.

In order to volunteer you must be registered with the forest service as a volunteer in advance of the trip. Please contact the trip leader ahead of time for information on registering (toddwlarsen@gmail.com)

  • Event Leader: Larsen Todd

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trail Maintenance

  • Area Type: Mountain

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 146

  • Season: 2013

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Backpack and camping gear, food for three days, weather dependent clothing, work gloves

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 12

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 1500

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Trail Maintenance

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

I met up with three other volunteers along with two forest service rangers for a quick pre-trip safety meeting at the ranger station early Friday morning. We then started our hike up to sunshine meadow and got over the lava before it was too hot. We encountered quite a few PCT thru-hikers as we worked on building check dams in the sunshine meadow user trail on Friday. As the day wore on, we also saw quite a few groups backpacking into the obsidian area for the holiday weekend.

On Saturday we were joined by a couple more volunteers and another forest service ranger. We were able to make good headway on the trail with this many people! We were also taught how to make water bars since some areas of the trail were going to encounter a lot of water. Sunday consisted of a quick hike up to arrowhead lake before heading back to the trailhead.

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

  • Number of spots on trip: 5
  • Number of spots available: 4
No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Larsen, Todd 509-949-0034 N —