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Tie Trail Brushing & Raking

  • Start date: 02/03/2024

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 02/03/2024

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Join us as we continue to remove storm debris from the Ridgeline Trail System. For this outing we will be focusing on the Tie Trail, one of the heaviest hit areas of the system.

We will work from 9 to noon.

Meet at the Fox Hollow Trailhead parking lot, the gravel lot across Fox Hollow from the Cascade Raptor Center.

  • Event Leader: Bell Matt

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trail Maintenance

  • Area Type:

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2024

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Wear weather and work appropriate clothing and footwear. All necessary tools, equipment, and gloves are provided by the City's Parks and Open Space division.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 4

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 500

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Trail Maintenance

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Eleven Obsidians and one prospective member met at the Fox Hollow Trailhead parking lot and enjoyed the sun on a brisk morning. We discussed safety and our tasks for the day focusing on the proper way to carry tools and emphasizing making pruning cuts. We set off from the trailhead hiking up the Tie Trail to begin our work for the day raking and cutting back storm debris from the trail. The bulk of our work occurred up the trail from the large 52-inch log as multiple trees had fallen together leaving 6 to 8 inches of debris that we scooped, pitched, and raked off the trail widening it to City standard. We were surprised to find that the debris had been insulating ice since the ice storm. We also removed 3 hangers from the trail corridor. While we made great progress the Tie Trail will need another outing due to the amount of storm debris. The Tie Trail was the hardest hit section of the trail we've been on so far.

Special thanks go to Janet for bringing persimmon bread that made for a great mid-outing snack.

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Bell, Matt 503-884-8829 N —
2 Signed-Up Pearce, Kelley 541-556-3651 N —
3 Signed-Up Davis, Steve 832-527-1756 N —
4 Signed-Up Meacham, Lynn 541-214-8827 N —
5 Signed-Up Jacobsen, Janet 541-206-1251 N —
6 Signed-Up Yoerger, Karen 541-510-2832 N —
7 Signed-Up Soussan, Pat 541-653-7997 N —
8 Signed-Up Cuevas, Lorraine 509-904-5222 N —
9 Signed-Up Cooney, Marguerite 541-600-0217 N —
10 Signed-Up Sotomayor, Gretchen 401-575-8167 N —
11 Signed-Up Northrop, Jim 5413433426 N —
12 Signed-Up Johnson, Steven 541-520-2470 N —
13 Signed-Up Predeek, Dave 541-345-5531 N —