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Amazon Hdwtrs/Spencer Butte

  • Start date: 02/28/2024

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 02/28/2024

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

NOTE: Flexible departure time from 8:15 to 8:30
Every Wednesday since 2013 we do this hike from the Martin Street Trailhead to the summit of Spencer Butte. Compared to starting at the paved Spencer Butte parking lot, this hike has double the climbing and three times the distance. It is a conditioning hike where everyone is challenging themselves to go at a moderate or fast pace—not like the other hikes on our schedule. If this is your first time on this Obsidian conditioning hike, or hiking to Spencer Butte, you may want to call the leader to discuss the pace. If you should fall too far behind, the leaders reserve the right to have you not summit but wait and return with the group. The regulars on this hike have attained their fitness by showing up consistently and slowly improving. If you have questions, email summertrips@obsidians.org. Come a few minutes early because we leave promptly at the listed time. To get to the trailhead: Take West Amazon to Martin Street. Turn left. Drive past Kinney Park and park Martin Street near the Kiosk sign board across from Canyon Drive Street sign with hiker symbol. Please contact the leader if you have any questions.

  • Event Leader: Miller John

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: Martin St & Canyon Drive, park on Martin St

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2024

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required:

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 6.2

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 1530

  • Non-Member Fees: 2

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

This was one of the more eventful Wednesday conditioning hikes I have been on. For starters I learned it was the 11 year anniversary of the hike:

Amazon HeadwatersRidgeline Trail
Wed, February 27, 2013
Leader: Janet Jacobsen
Hike 6 miles 1000 ft. (Moderate)
Five of us showed up at 9:00 at the Martin Street Trailhead for the first weekly Ridgeline hike. The goal was to hike up the trail for 1 ½ hours and then turn back. Three made it to the top of the Spencer Butte. We were back at Martin Street by 11:45.
Participants:
1 Members: Janet Jacobsen
4 Nonmembers: James Dunnigan, Sandra Kwak, Bruce Ruhnow, Robert York

We had 14 members in total summit during a blustery morning, including Janet Jacobsen! Temp was in the 40's with many spring flowers starting to show through the duff including Trillium and Elf Cup and 3 of us got to watch a very large fir tree randomly fall near a house along the trail. a good day was had by all.

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Miller, John 541-255-6254 N —
2 Signed-Up Stefanovska, Bojana 541-520-4748 N —
3 Signed-Up Marsonette, Vern 541-600-5332 N —
4 Signed-Up Mogart, Eva 541-513-9649 N —
5 Signed-Up Rolfe, Jorry 541-206-9501 N —
6 Signed-Up Matsdorf, Velda 541-556-1238 N 2
7 Signed-Up Jacobsen, Janet 541-206-1251 N —
8 Signed-Up Meacham, Lynn 541-214-8827 N —
9 Signed-Up Yoerger, Karen 5415102832 N —
10 Signed-Up Hoecker, Nancy 541-217-8453 N —
11 Signed-Up Fisher, Hilary 541-514-9380 N —
12 Signed-Up Sinnott, Randy 541-915-0234 N —
13 Signed-Up Iredale, Gwyneth 541-505-0055 N —
14 Signed-Up Aarts, Wim 503-804-8370 N —
15 Signed-Up Hundseder-Aarts, Anna Maria 503-962-9522 N —
16 Signed-Up Smith, Mike 520-488-9569 N —