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Clear Lake

  • Start date: 07/18/2024

  • Start time: 8:00 AM

Description:

This will be a SLOW HIKE around beautiful Clear Lake, near the headwaters of the McKenzie River. We will take time to smell the flowers and look at the birds. Maybe we will even rent a rowboat for a quick water excursion at the end.

Photo by: Carla Cooper

  • Event Leader: Dorothy vanWinkle

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-485-7416

  • Event Leader Email: dorothyvanwinkle@yahoo.com

  • Assistant Leader: Carla Cooper

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Mountain

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

  • Rating: Easy

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 130

  • Season: 2024

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

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

  • participant prerequisites: Be able to comfortably walk 6 miles and carry adequate supplies.

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 5.5

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 200

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

What perfect weather we had for our slow hike around Clear Lake. The notable flowers were the little pink fragrant roses on the sunny side of the lake and the pipsissewa on the shady side of the lake. The most common bird calls we heard were the bald eagle chitterings and the Swainsons thrush making its ethereal calls. We saw 6 hooded mergansers swimming along the shoreline getting a boost by the gentle swell of the water. We lingered by the boat dock/store where some of us enjoyed a well earned ice cream after a great hike.

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