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Canceled: Gold Lake

  • Start date: 01/22/2017

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 01/22/2017

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

The trip is listed as moderate but it is a good beginning of the season trip for snowshoeing whether you have used snowshoes or not. We will drive up Hyw 58 to Gold Lake snow park cross the highway and start our trip into Gold Lake Shelter 2.5 miles down a road. If you have snow shoes great, if you do not you can rent them at Bergs on 13th Street in Eugene. I use my hiking boots with gaiters and my hiking poles with baskets. If you have never used snow shoes before, pay attention when you rent them to any instructions. When you take them home try them on several times so you are very familiar with how they work. When it is cold and your hands are freezing you will appreciate the time spent in your living room mastering the skill.
CHANGE IN MEETING TIME AT LANE 9:00AM

  • Event Leader: Jane Hackett

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-953-7046

  • Event Leader Email: hackett1575@comcast.net

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Mountain

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

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 140

  • Season: 2017

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Backpack w/all 10 essentials. Water, lunch, rain gear, sun glasses or goggles. Dress in layers, snow shoeing uses energy and you want to control sweating. No cotton clothing.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 5

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 300

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Gorgeous day, 32 degrees and sunny. Leaving an hour later then planned met the road conditions were very good. According to weather checked at 7:30 it was snowing and 28. We had no trouble getting to the end of the road. If you did not know where the shelter was you could have skied past it. Dave and Darko went down and checked it out. It was in good shape, but so surrounded in snow that know one has been in it. The rest of use where taking lunch in the sun on the bridge. We ran into a couple of Nordic patrol folks digging steps down to the bathroom. They also dug steps from Hwy 58 up a 6 foot wall of snow so that we could do our trip. It seemed like such a nice day I decided to add an exploratory trip to Lower Marilyn Lake. This added a little over a mile to the trip but took us off the road and into the trees. I was surprised that the lake was not completely frozen over, the puddle in the middle was enough to warn you off. We were back to the cars by 2pm and home before dark.