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Devil’s Staircase/Dark Grove

  • Start date: 06/27/2021

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 06/27/2021

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

We will make a loop hike through the dense old growth forest of the Devil's Staircase Wilderness that was officially designated in 2019. This the largest area of old-growth forest remaining in the Coast Range, and the trees are enormous. However there are no maintained trail nor trailheads in this area, but we will follow some faint user trails and elk trails along a route the Obsidians hiked twice before, from one informal trailhead to another, with a return by a logging road.
Please be advised that this is a off-trail, bushwhack trip that requires crawling over and under countless logs, through thickets of devil's club, vine maple and nettles, and climbing up and down steep creek banks. Our progress will be slow and we will need to take extra precautions to keep the group together. There are no fine views or sights to see, but we will be immersed in the forest. The final two miles of driving are on a very rough and overgrown road. I will scout the trip in early June and depending upon the road conditions it may be necessary to consolidate the hikers into one or two HCV for the approach. Loop is about 5 very difficult miles with a 900 ft elevation loss, then gain. About half of that 5 miles is on user’s trail or bushwhack, while the other half on old logging roads along the ridges.

  • Event Leader: Sayre Gordon

  • Assistant Leader: Sojak Darko

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Coastal

  • Departure Location: South Eugene High School, 19th & Patterson

  • Rating: Difficult

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 136

  • Season: 2021

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Sturdy hiking boots, heavy long pants and shirt to withstand thorns and nettles. Gloves would be useful. Also lunch, water, and ten essentials.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 5

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 900

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

  • Number of spots on trip: 8
  • Number of spots available: 0
No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Sayre, Gordon 541-515-9450 N 1
2 Signed-Up Sojak, Darko 541-799-9199 N 1
3 Signed-Up Hubata-Vacek, Lubos 541-913-2837 N 1
4 Signed-Up Ruzicka, Angie 541-521-6840 N 1
5 Signed-Up Sinnott, Randy 541-915-0234 N 1
6 Signed-Up Orsi, Barbara 541-515-9665 N 1
7 Signed-Up Thompson, Harold 458-205-1439 N 1
8 Signed-Up Moll, Jessica 510-459-5178 N 5
9 Signed-Up Eyers, Chuck 541-343-9411 N 5
10 Signed-Up Parks, Linda 607-244-4194 N 1
11 Signed-Up Myers, Michael 541-579-4733 N 1
12 Signed-Up Skarda, John 541-902-1450 N 1
13 Signed-Up Skarda, Joan 541-590-0205 N 1
14 Signed-Up Melton, Chris 541-335-9733 N 5