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Prairie View Loop @ Ikenick SP

  • Start date: 02/04/2023

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 02/04/2023

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

This snowshoe came out of my comment several years ago that “Somebody ought to do something about these trails here.” Both of the Ikenick loop trails were unable to be completed because the diamond markers were no longer present. While Prairie View loop has no view of prairie, is flat and on roads a good deal of the way, it goes through some nice meadows (maybe prairie) pretty woods, by several flowing streams, and is not known by most people as a loop. Ikenick is often bypassed for whiter pastures, but opening this loop was worth the falls, dropped gloves, wrong turns, face plants caused by blackberry vines in summer, that sort of stuff. Those doing it will be among the first to have completed the loop in a long time. This is a solid moderate snowshoe that requires one be able to go a bit over 6 miles on a low elevation track.

  • Event Leader: Smith Mike

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Mountain

  • Departure Location: Behind McDonalds, 57th and Main in Springfield

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 130

  • Season: 2023

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: usual winter clothing, layers, lunch, map or GPS optional (but one is always a good idea), One stop at Rainbow on the way up. No toilets at the SP; pass required.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 6.3

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 300

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Four of us arrived at Ikenick SP at 9 am and snowshoed around the now marked Prairie View Loop, 10 km or 6.3 miles. We saw nobody until the last drop to the parking lot. While the hike does not have great views of mountains, we did see Browder Ridge and Mt. Washington. Tracks were seen coming in the opposite directions, so that the markers the leader has been putting up over the last 2 years are working!

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

  • Number of spots on trip: 12
  • Number of spots available: 4
No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Smith, Mike 520-488-9569 N —
2 Signed-Up Carpenter, Kathie 541-505-2370 N —
3 Signed-Up Ruzicka, Angie 541-521-6840 N —
4 Signed-Up Sojak, Darko 541-799-9199 N —
5 Signed-Up Anderson, Heidi 805-798-1842 N —
6 Signed-Up Cooney, Marguerite 541-600-0217 N —
7 Signed-Up Leng, Jane 541-232-3239 N —
8 Signed-Up Myers, Michael 541-579-4733 N —