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Beverly Beach

  • Start date: 07/09/2019

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 07/09/2019

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Beverly Beach has fascinating geological strata with gobs of fossils.  We will hike a couple miles on the beach.  There are offshore islands that seem to amplify the wave action.  after the beach walk ... and lunch ... we will walk the nature trail around the campground.  There are a couple dozen nurse logs and stumps with giant Sitka spruces and hemlock trees.  There are five kinds of ferns and skunk cabbages too.  The Visitor Center has good displays including a skull from a gray whale.  I expect everyone to remove some ivy from the campground trail.  After the outing, I expect most folks will drive the extra five miles to Cape Foulweather?

  • Event Leader: Jim Pierce

  • Event Leader Phone: 206-902-7326

  • Event Leader Email: jimpierce1948@comcast.net

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Coastal

  • Departure Location: South Eugene High School, 19th & Patterson

  • Rating: Easy

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 220

  • Season: 2019

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: lunch, snacks, good walking shoes, and beach wear for wind and rain that the beach likes to have. Drivers will need an Oregon State Park pass.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 3

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 50

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

On the Beverly Beach walk we saw lots of fascinating fossils and geological strata. The very low tide exposed rocks and tide pools and molted crab shells by the hundreds. After lunch our forest walk passed through mini-forests of skunk cabbage and five ferns with dozens of silted trees from nurse logs/stumps. We even heard a few Pacific wrens calling. The promised rains began as we finished up inside the visitor center. What a wonderful day! Thanks to Kay for corralling the group at SEHS.