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Cage Removal

  • Start date: 10/29/2022

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 10/29/2022

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

For this month's outing our work involves removing tree cages from plantings, cleaning out as well as improving some trailside ditches, blowing off the trail, and possibly a bit of blackberry lopping and invasive grass pulling around the plantings.

Meet at the Willamette and 52nd Trailhead parking lot, the gravel lot on Willamette Street.

  • Event Leader: Bell Matt

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trail Maintenance

  • Area Type:

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2022

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Wear weather and work appropriate clothing and footwear. All necessary tools, equipment, and gloves are provided by the City's Parks and Open Space division.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 1

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 500

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Trail Maintenance

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

For this month's outing, we met up on a beautiful fall morning at the Willamette & 52nd trailhead before hiking up the Ridgeline to the neighborhood connector trail that comes from Owl Road. On the way we met up with Marlon who had a fun outing set up for us, removing cages from around plantings. We removed the changes and cedar posts from around the 26 plantings. We rolled the cages up and loaded them along with the cedar posts into the bed of Marlon's truck. There were so many cages that he needs 2 trips to remove them all. We stopped halfway through our work to enjoy snacks cookies and banana bread! Dan deserves extra thanks for bringing a Leatherman and removing the cage with the most bent twisted wires. Marlon and Naith worked together to cut apart the cage around the Ocean Spray that had grown through it saving us from having to prune it back to remove the cage. After we removed the cages we also dug out the false brome from around the plantings. The false brome has definitely invaded the area.

Special thanks go to Clara for cutting back blackberries from around the Willamette and 52nd and the main Willamette trailheads.

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 Predeek, Dave 541-345-5531 N —
3 Signed-Up Jacobsen, Janet 541-206-1251 N —
4 Signed-Up Cottam, Janell 512-663-2410 N —
5 Signed-Up Soussan, Pat 541-653-7997 N —
6 Signed-Up Emlen, Clara 541-746-2181 N —
7 Signed-Up Gilmore, Dan 541-510-5498 N —
8 Signed-Up Clinger, David 541-206-9533 N —
9 Signed-Up Bell, Fletcher 503-884-8829 N —
10 Signed-Up Bell, Nathaniel 503-884-8829 N —