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Canceled: Amanda Trail

  • Start date: 04/08/2018

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 04/08/2018

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

This is a reschedule from the Feb trip canceled due to weather so those participants signed up earlier. Depending on weather, trail conditions, and size of group, we will hike from Yachats on the Amanda Coast trail past the Amanda Statue and through the forest including a steep section near the top before we reach the Cape Perpetua Whispering Trail Rock Shelter (possibly lunch if not windy). Then it is down the other side to the Visitor Center. This will require leaving a car at the Visitors Center for the car shuttle. From the Visitor Center, drivers and passengers could opt to extend their visit to include Ya'Xaik, the mile loop trail in Yachats across from Smelt Sands State Park and/or visit the Devil’s Churn, tide pools, and Cook’s Trail Cape Perpetua. The drive from Eugene to Yachats would be approx. 1 ½ hours. This is a follow up to the Eugene Library’s presentations in Feb on the Amanda Trail.

  • Event Leader: Janet Jacobsen

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-206-1251

  • Event Leader Email: jbjacobsen@comcast.net

  • Assistant Leader: David Cooper

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Coastal

  • Departure Location: Eugene Target, W11th, parking lot closest to W11th

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 172

  • Season: 2018

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: What to bring: Lunch, appropriate rain gear, hiking pole (optional) for slippery trail. Parking pass for Visitors Center

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 7.6

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 1600

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Our first stop on the Amanda Trail was the statue in memory of Amanda, a woman of the Coos Tribe who was forcibly marched to the Alsea Sub-agency camp in the 1860s. After a steep climb, the skunk cabbage yellow flags on parade in the boggy area of North Cape Creek were a restful sight. From there it was up and down on a slippery trail to the Cape Perpetua Whispering Trail Rock Shelter, the highest point on the Oregon Coast. Escaping the wind in the shelter, we had a quick lunch break. We then retraced our steps at a fast pace anticipating a second lunch stop. Somehow I managed to persuade everyone we needed to do the short Ya’Xaik Trail and Gerdemann Botanic Preserve on the other side of Yachats before our late lunch at the Luna Sea Fish House. We had the downstairs dining area to ourselves— a pleasant way to end our exhausting five hour Yachats expedition that was double the mileage and elevation in my trip description. We did see all five historic site signs commemorating the history of the First Nation People. The "Yachats' Early Residents" sign with an illustration of the Ya'Xaiks playing a game called "Shinny" reminded Holger Krentz that he learned how to play the game with old hockey sticks in elementary school in Canada when he was ten years old. He still has the badge when his team won the championship.