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Rooster Rock

  • Start date: 04/28/2019

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 04/28/2019

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Update: Plan your route to departure place to avoid the Eugene Marathon. Departs from: Springfield, Winco Parking lot, I-105/Mohawk. 1920 Olympic Street, Springfield. This gives us easy access to get on I-105, take Mohawk exit to Marcola, Mohawk Valley and to Sweet Home.It is another 21 miles on Highway 20 to the Trout Creek Trailhead and the Menagerie Wilderness (established1984). UPDATE: East of Sweet Home, we will meet Paul at a Rest area—also a bathroom stop— across from Point Restaurant, 6305 Highway 20. From Sweet Home it is 21 miles to the trailhead. It is a wilderness so the limit is 12. It will be a moderate steady pace for the uphill hike. It would be like hiking Mt. Pisgah twice with few stops. From the junction with the old climbers' trail, it climbs 750' in the last half mile. From the top, there is a view east and we should see Hen Rock, Turkey Monster, and Chicken Rock hidden in the rugged terrain. Rooster Rock, was once a lookout. I’ll probably substitute if heavy rain is predicted.

  • Event Leader: Janet Jacobsen

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-206-1251

  • Event Leader Email: jbjacobsen@comcast.net

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Mountain

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 120

  • Season: 2019

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: lunch, appropriate layered clothing,

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 6.6

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 2300

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

The Trout Creek Trail to Rooster Rock 21 miles east of Sweet Home. is in the Menagerie Wilderness established in 1984. There were hundreds of calpyso orchids and two dozen fallen logs across the trail to distract us from the relentless elevation gain. After a two hour uphill trudge, the rocky pinnacle where a small fire lookout observation hut once perched is a welcome sight. We did not take advantage of the climbing rope hanging from the pinnacle. It was perfect weather to lounge on the nearby rocky area for lunch and view the snow-capped mountains. One had to peak through the trees to see Rabbit Ears' twin 260-foot pillars. It was Diana’s third trip and we happily signed her membership application.