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Amazon Headwaters Causeway Cleaning #1

  • Start date: 12/15/2015

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 12/15/2015

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

We will work to clean the long wooden causeway of debris so that it lasts longer. This is the last wooden structure left to clean on this trail.

  • Event Leader: Bell Matt

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trail Maintenance

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2015

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Wear weather and work appropriate clothing and footwear. All necessary tools, equipment, gloves, and even some snacks will be provided by the City's Parks and Open Space staff.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 0.5

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 100

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Trail Maintenance

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Our group of 5 volunteers met at the Fox Hollow Trailhead on an atypical day for an Obsidian trail maintenance outing to attempt to finish cleaning the long wooden causeway on the Amazon Headwaters Trail. With our weeders in hand and our backs stooped we scraped, stabbed, whacked, and gouged the duff, dirt, and rocks out of the gaps between the boards on the long causeway. We also used brooms and square-bladed shovels to remove moss and put the finishing touches on a job well done. Quite astoundingly, we were able to get all 139 gaps cleaned! (139 is my estimate; for the actual total, please ask Mike Smith.)

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 Cooper, David 541-868-5427 N —
3 Signed-Up Smith, Mike 520-488-9569 N —
4 Signed-Up Dunlap, Larry 541-337-0785 N —
5 Signed-Up Lockfeld, Alex 541-686-0662 N —