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Rosary Lakes

  • Start date: 01/12/2017

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 01/12/2017

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

***PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE TO 9 a.m.*** TRIP WILL GO AS SCHEDULED
Three miles up a gently ascending trail, leisurely lunch, and 3 miles back. If you're new to snowshoe trips, or just want a relaxing trek in the woods, this is about as easy as it gets. Drivers will be provided with a SnoPark pass if they do not already have one.

  • Event Leader: Tom Rundle

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-653-0741

  • Event Leader Email: vivadancero@gmail.com

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Mountain

  • Departure Location: Amazon Park, 28th & Hilyard entrance parking lot

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 162

  • Season: 2017

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Needed: water, snack, lunch, snowshoes, warm layered clothing appropriate for weather. Recommended: trekking poles with snow baskets, extra pairs of gloves & socks, 10 essentials.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 6

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 460

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

We started up the Rosary Lakes trail in dazzling sunshine and a temperature of about 27F, perfect for snow-shoeing. We had two pieces of good luck. The first piece of luck was having virtually no wind. The second piece of luck was that some skiers and snow-shoe trekkers had preceded us. This made trail-breaking in the 12 to 18 inch powder much easier. Even so, it was slow going. We were were often moving along in a narrow trench that was ankle deep to knee deep through snow-shrouded Dug Firs. Nearly everyone helped out with trail breaking. We made it to the lower lake about 2 p.m. and had a quick lunch. We left the lake to make the return trek about 2:25 p.m. so as to have plenty of time to get back to the parking lot before sunset. The round-trip distance was about 6.3 miles with an elevation gain of about 498 feet according to GPS.