Name: Beach clean-up
Start: 2023-09-23T00:00:00-07:00
End: 2023-09-23T23:59:59-07:00

Past Activity

Beach clean-up

Start date: 09/23/2023
Start time: 12:00 AM
End date: 09/23/2023
End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Please don’t be late! We will leave promptly at 8:30 AM. From Target W11, Eugene we will carpool to Baker Beach trailhead, ten miles north of Florence.
As a part of 2023 National Public Lands Day celebration, Obsidians will participate in cleaning grassy sand dunes between Baker Beach trailhead and Berry Creek. If you plan to meet the group at the trailhead; Please be at Baker Beach Trailhead parking lot around 9:50AM. Trailhead GPS coordinates are 44.0874, -124.1178. Trash bags, gloves and short orientation will be provided to you on the site. Our work will be done by 1PM.

Event Leader: Darko Sojak
Event Leader Phone: 541-799-9199
Event Leader Email: darchey@comcast.net
Assistant Leader:
Event category: Trail Maintenance
Area Type: Coastal
Departure Location: Eugene Target, W11th, parking lot closest to W11th
Rating: Easy
Roundtrip total drive miles: 128
Season: 2023
Permits Required:
Event Status: Passed
Supplies and Equipment Required: Your trusty garden gloves are much better than gloves leader can provide. Food, hydration and weather protection.
participant prerequisites:
Conditions:
Total Distance: 3
Member Fees: —
Elevation Gain: 100
Non-Member Fees: —
Committee: Trail Maintenance
Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

We met at the Baker Beach trailhead. Cloudy, low 60's F and no wind was ideal. Our group of thirteen headed west and then crossed north into the unusually dry cranberry bog between the Baker beach trail and Berry creek. Cheerful and capable, our group combed a wide scrubby ravine littered with thousands of driftwood logs. We encountered several areas with hard to penetrate invasive and very prickly Gorse bushes. A few hours later, back in the parking lot, our bags weighed a total of 95 lbs. mixed debris. The first autumn rain sprinkled our departure.
Thank you volunteers!