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Corrigan Lake Backpack

  • Start date: 08/25/2020

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 08/27/2020

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Corrigan Lake, in the Diamond Peak Wilderness is about 2 miles in from the trailhead. Wednesday we will have an optional day hike of about 7.5 miles to Happy Lake where we will have a leisurely one hour lunch.

This outing is designed as a Senior-Friendly Backpack, and/or is for people who love backpacking and enjoy a less strenuous approach. Hiking pace on hikes will be easy to moderate, with an opportunity to enjoy the sights and backcountry.

Call either Scott or Nikki for information.

Participants will manage their own transportation. Please indicate your transportation preferences. If you want to drive by yourself, please indicate "Have" and 0 for passengers. If you're willing to take another person or more, please indicate the number of people (not counting yourself) you will take.
We will meet at LCC at 9:00am. We will meet up again in Oakridge at the Green Waters park.

Obsidian protocols for social distancing will be observed on the hike. Refer to main website page for information.

  • Event Leader: Frank Nikki

  • Assistant Leader: Hovis Scott

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Mountain

  • Departure Location: Lane Community College, parking lot nearest stoplight

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 140

  • Season: 2020

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Bring Backpack supplies, water, water filter, 2 dinners, 3 lunches, snacks, and sunscreen, along with Covid-19 face covering and hand sanitizer.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 11

  • Member Fees: 2

  • Elevation Gain: 1200

  • Non-Member Fees: 10

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

This was a wonderful trip with perfect weather and a congenial small group. We arrived to our base camp at Corrigan Lake, in the Diamond Peak Wilderness at about 12:30 after a 2 mile trek up some gradual switchbacks. We set up camp and
despite this being designed as an easy to moderate trip, Scott and David hiked further and logged another 7 miles. They explored the Bear Mountain Trail up to the summit, back down to the road and then back up and over to camp, enjoying a bounty of huckleberries along the way.

Happy Lake was our day trip destination the next day, about 7.5 miles RT with up and down elevation change along the ridge. We had a leisurely one hour lunch at Happy Lake with time for a swim, picking huckleberries, and exploring a waterfall on the north side of the lake. On the return trip out from the lake we had about a 1000 feet elevation gain during the mid-day heat.

We were back to Corrigan Lake by 3:30 with time for another swim and relaxing at camp. We thought we might have all three days without seeing other people. There was a family at the Lake and we had fun talking to the preteens who were very excited to be backpacking.

At dawn we were serenaded by howling coyotes.

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

  • Number of spots on trip: 5
  • Number of spots available: 2
No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Frank, Nikki 541-954-3050 N 2
2 Signed-Up Hovis, Scott 541-731-3412 N 2
3 Signed-Up Lodeesen, David 214-709-0352 N 10