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Pisgah Arboretum Flower hike

  • Start date: 04/05/2019

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 04/05/2019

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Look for us by my car a row or two down from the fee box. We will walk the arboretum trails to see fawn lilies and camas blooming. The Jette trail has 100s of fawn lilies in bloom. (Optional to hike to the summit possibly before —Email me at jbjacobsen@comcast.net)

  • Event Leader: Janet Jacobsen

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-206-1251

  • Event Leader Email: jbjacobsen@comcast.net

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: Mt Pisgah, West Trailhead (Main Parking Lot)

  • Rating: Easy

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2019

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required:

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 3

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 300

  • Non-Member Fees: 2

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

It was an Oregon spring day with rain, flowing creeks, a plethora of wildflowers and two umbrellas. Calypso orchids were a quiet surprise waiting for us on the Incense Cedar Trail. On other trails we discovered wood violets, bleeding hearts, pink fawn lilies, trillium and one lone iris. Hillsides on the Jette Trail were blooming with 100s of fawn lilies and camas. The trail is named after George Jette, University of Oregon professor of landscape architecture, who in 1975 developed the arboretum master dream plan. We stopped at the rock dedicated to Rhoda Love, a botanist and the first arboretum employee in 1980.