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Fall Color

  • Start date: 10/16/2012

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 10/16/2012

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Anticipating a glorious Indian summer day with lots of autumn foliage, we travel along the McKenzie River to the Ranger Station for a rest break and coffee. Then on to Sahalie Falls and perhaps another stop or two going from douglas fir to pine country. At Sisters, we lunch (on your own) and shop, leaving about 1:30 or so. Return over the Santiam Pass, stopping at Hackelman Old Growth- one mile loop hike (optional). Then down the S. Santiam River to McDonalds in Sweet Home for ice cream. Home via Mohawk Valley by 6:00 pm.

(Gloomy Gus Says- if Mother Nature, ODOT or forest fires close the central Cascades, an alternate is mid-Willamette Valley or Oregon Coast.)

Cost: members: $36; non-members: $38; Due October 9.
Reservations and checks to: Mary Lee Cheadle

  • Event Leader: Jensen Ray

  • Assistant Leader: Reanier Liz

  • Event category: Bus Trips

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  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

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  • Season: 2012

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

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  • Member Fees: 36

  • Elevation Gain:

  • Non-Member Fees: 38

  • Committee: Bus Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Choosing a suitable date for our traditional Fall Color Trip involves guesswork and hope. This year we did see very good color in the High Cascades, and despite variable rainy weather, we enjoyed the trip.

Our coffee and goodies break was inside the McKenzie Ranger Station, feasting on a delicious birthday cake prepared by Barbara Beard for her ____? birthday.

Then on to spectacular Sahalie Falls, and Fish Lake, where the Santiam Wagon Road Remount Station is being restored. We then traveled over the Santiam summit and immediately enjoyed sunshine. We stayed in Sisters for two hours, shopping and replenishing calories.

Our return was via highway 20, down the South Santiam River, with a brief stop at Hackleman Old Growth, where the trails were in poor condition. We all enjoyed ice cream at McDonald's in Sweet Home and then drove through the Mohawk Valley and McKenzie View Drive to Shopko at 5:15pm. Our driver, Jay Gunsolley was excellent. There were 31 riders, including 10 nonmembers.

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Jensen, Ray 541-345-5366 N 38
2 Signed-Up Reanier, Liz 541-687-1925 N 38
3 Signed-Up Allen, Ethel 541-736-0692 N 38
4 Signed-Up Anderson, Alice 541-338-3135 N 38
5 Signed-Up Arthur, Bill 541-844-5156 N 38
6 Signed-Up Beard, Barbara 541-994-2337 N 36
7 Signed-Up Beard, Paul 541-994-2337 N 36
8 Signed-Up Beard, Paula 541-968-0013 N 36
9 Signed-Up Cheadle, Mary Lee 541-689-1085 N 38
10 Signed-Up Cutsforth, Sharon 541-735-4703 N 36
11 Signed-Up Etter, Rose Mary 541-747-7091 N 38
12 Signed-Up Flanders, Barbara 541-747-9803 N 38
13 Signed-Up Flanders, Dennis 541-747-9803 N 38
14 Signed-Up Jeffries, Patricia 541-683-8403 N 38
15 Signed-Up McManigal, John 541-345-2036 N 38
16 Signed-Up McManigal, Lenore 541-345-2036 N 38
17 Signed-Up Newlove, Natalie 541-465-4909 N 36
18 Signed-Up Payne, Barbara 541-746-1964 N 38
19 Signed-Up Payne, Don 541-452-3617 N 36
20 Signed-Up Snell, Julie 541-681-3110 N 38
21 Signed-Up Speelman, Janet 541-344-3019 N 38
22 Signed-Up Baukol, Mary Ellen 406-868-0711 N 38
23 Signed-Up Dougherty, Dawne 541-995-6120 N 38
24 Signed-Up Hewitt, Fred — N 38
25 Signed-Up Hewitt, Freda — N 38
26 Signed-Up Hislop, Marge 541-688-3611 N 38
27 Signed-Up Kendall, John — N 38
28 Signed-Up Kendall, Val — N 38
29 Signed-Up Lemons, Mary 541-343-3546 N 38
30 Signed-Up Phelps, Judy 541-726-0118 N 38
31 Signed-Up Robertson, Beverly — N 38