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Amazon Park to Hendricks

  • Start date: 05/25/2020

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 05/25/2020

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Meet up at Amazon Park parking lot in front of the pool, 8a. Walk to 28th and Hilyard, and head up to top of 28th, then cross Laurelwood Golf course, linking up to Ribbon Trail, turning left, and hike to Hendricks Park. We will come down on Fairmont Blvd, to 21st street, then R on Harris Alley, to 23rd. Then R to Alder, to 26th, R back to Amazon parking lot.
Total mileage: 6ish, with a couple of hills for good measure.

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  • Event Leader: Whitesides Janet

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2020

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Must bring face covering, hand sanitizer, and all 10 essentials.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 6

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 300

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

We headed off from Amazon Park on a beautiful summer morning, taking off jackets in anticipation of our first short climb up 28th. After crossing Laurelwood Golf Course, we headed into the woods to connect with the Ribbon Trail. We were stopped as we approached a recent large clearing, where the trail ended because construction has started on a new housing development. No one was working on the site, but there was a massive earth moving machine which had begun to clear a large section of forest for the new extension of Spring Blvd, from 30th. We were all appalled at the scale of the damage. Another hiker approached, a local architect who filled us in on the progress of development. Leaving the destruction behind, we continued on the Ribbon Trail heading north to Hendricks Park. We descended on Fairmount Heights, which has some good views of west Eugene from the top. Then to 21st and taking a lovely alley back to Alder, then on to starting point. We all headed to the top of one of the parking decks near the Sacred Heart Hospital and watched the fly-over of jets commemorating Memorial Day and health care workers, a few who also came out to watch with the small crowd.

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

  • Number of spots on trip: 10
  • Number of spots available: 4
No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Whitesides, Janet 919-593-5578 N —
2 Signed-Up Rolfe, Jorry 541-206-9501 N —
3 Signed-Up Eastwood, Rebecca 541-556-3150 N —
4 Signed-Up Nagy, Evelyn 541-514-4110 N —
5 Signed-Up Ehli, Kathleen 503-339-5338 N —
6 Signed-Up Hoecker, Nancy 541-217-8453 N —