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Postponed: Waterfall hike

  • Start date: 04/16/2022

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 04/16/2022

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

The trails will be muddy but the water will be gushing! We'll make visits to Wildwood Falls (right on Lower Brice Creek Rd), Swordfern Loop Trail (2 miles), Parker Falls (1.6 miles), Moon Falls (.5 miles) and Pinard Falls (.5 miles). Spirit Falls (.6 miles) is probably still closed, but I'll keep checking.

The distances are short but some of the trails will be slippery and steep, so it's rated as moderate rather than easy.

  • Event Leader: Carpenter Kathie

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Mountain

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

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 128

  • Season: 2022

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Lunch, water, poles if you use them

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 4.6

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 800

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

What a wild and wonderful day! The trip description promised we'd hike rain or shine, but it didn't say anything about blizzards, graupel or hail. Our caravan of three little Priuses started out a bit after 9:00 from Amazon Park, after we were joined by the contingent of five that had been waiting at South Eugene High School. (Read your emails, people!)

We began with a stop to admire the very beautiful, and deadly, Wildwood Falls along Lower Brice Creek Road. This was meant to be our restroom stop because the website said there was a public restroom. Nope. But luckily there are a lot of trees in this pretty little County Park.

After leaving Wildwood Falls we drove steadily upwards on Forest Road #17. The raindrops seemed to grow bigger and heavier the higher we climbed, until suddenly we realized we were out in the middle of nowhere in a raging snowstorm. Undaunted, we pressed on past the point where the snow started to stick to the road, but with the elevation still gaining and the temperature still dropping, we all agreed that it was time to turn our little Priuses around while we could still do so safely.

We journeyed back down Forest Road #17, making a quick stop for a photo op of Sasquatch at a fabulous outdoor chainsaw art gallery. Then we pulled up at Rujada Campground where we hiked the 2-mile Swordfern Loop and ate our lunches on the banks of Layng Creek.

It was not the day we had planned but it was an adventure nonetheless. As leader I felt lucky to have such an intrepid group of hikers, all with great attitudes and a willingness to adapt and explore. Obsidians rock!

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

  • Number of spots on trip: 12
  • Number of spots available: 0
No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Carpenter, Kathie 541-505-2370 N 1
2 Signed-Up Hawkins, David 541-505-0119 N 1
3 Signed-Up Wasserman, Sara 541-465-9018 N 5
4 Signed-Up Orsi, Barbara 541-515-9665 N 1
5 Signed-Up Iredale, Gwyneth 541-505-0055 N 1
6 Signed-Up Kali, Sariantra 541-221-3282 N 5
7 Signed-Up Fullar, Suzanne 541-654-4493 N 5
8 Signed-Up Krentz, Holger 541-868-7792 N 1
9 Signed-Up Parks, Linda 607-244-4194 N 1
10 Signed-Up Anderson, Laura E 770-367-6580 N 1
11 Signed-Up Gould, Whitney 510-368-8941 N 1
12 Signed-Up Hanson, Vicky 541-683-7107- cell 541-954-5269 N 1
13 Signed-Up Rolfe, Jorry 541-206-9501 N 1
14 Signed-Up Muller, Toni 541-554-2364 N 1
15 Signed-Up Koch, Victoria 541-915-5448 N 5
16 Signed-Up Miller, Maria 541-301-7798 N 5
17 Signed-Up Flashenberg, Paul 541-915-9482 N 5
18 Signed-Up Ozwoeld, Monica 541-915-7140 N 1
19 Signed-Up Christiansen, Lynda 541-912-9952 N 1
20 Signed-Up Orsi, Barbara 541-515-9665 N 1