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Gillespie Butte

  • Start date: 12/26/2017

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 12/26/2017

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

MEETING PLACE: River Play Discovery Playground at 248 Cheshire. There is a large parking lot. Walk from there on the river path through Valley River Parking lot and city streets up to Gillespie Butte and Cemetery. Return the same way and then hike to the top of Skinner Butte. The trip will take around 3 1/2 hours. If raining, I’ll shorten or reschedule. Perhaps 5th Street Market for lunch.

  • Event Leader: Janet Jacobsen

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-206-1251

  • Event Leader Email: jbjacobsen@comcast.net

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Easy

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2018

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required:

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 8

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 450

  • Non-Member Fees: 2

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

We met at 9:00 at the River Play Discovery Village (2006) where we “discovered” the sandpit bronze fossils and the replicas of Spencer Butte and the columns. We then walked along the Ruth Bascomb Riverbank Trail to the Greenway Bridge (1977) through Valley River Parking lot over Delta Highway to Clinton Road and up Crenshaw to Gillespie Butte and Cemetery (1895). Dave Cooper suggested on the return trip, we make a loop using the Delta Ponds Bridge (2010). Back at Skinner Butte, we ascended the new climber’s trail (December 22, 2017). The last stop was Fifth Street Market (1976) for lunch. It was an interesting four hours to connect and appreciate Eugene's parks and trails.