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Heceta Head/Beaver Lake

  • Start date: 05/11/2019

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 05/11/2019

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

From Washburne Park we will walk south on the beach to the Hobbit Trail, and from there up over Heceta Head to the lighthouse for lunch. Some may want to take the lighthouse tour and explore this famous historic landmark. After lunch we will hike back over Heceta Head and take the Valley Trail past Beaver Lake to Washburne Park. We will be walking a slow pace and stopping several times to look at some amazing geologic features.

  • Event Leader: Tom Rundle

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-653-0741

  • Event Leader Email: vivadancero@gmail.com

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Coastal

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

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 145

  • Season: 2019

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Water, snack, lunch, water resistant foot ware, attire appropriate for weather including rain gear, 10 essentials. Recommended: sunscreen, and bug spray if desired.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 6

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 800

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

We hiked from Washburne Park along the beach to the Hobbit Trail, stopping along the way to look at some tide pools and local geologic features: then, up over the headland to the light house where we had lunch under pleasantly cloudy skies. Here, we saw a Bald Eagle along with the usual assortment of shore birds. After lunch, we hiked the Valley Trail past Beaver Lake, including the China Creek Loop, pausing to enjoy a series of small ponds and and wild iris along the way. Then we took a slightly longer loop on a trail going under HW 101 and a quarter mile south along the beach back to Washburne.