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Heceta Head Geology

  • Start date: 05/18/2017

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 05/18/2017

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Trip Description: From Washburne Park we will walk south on the beach to the Hobbit Trail, and from there up over Heceta Head to the lighthouse for lunch. Some may want to take the lighthouse tour and explore this famous historic landmark. After lunch we will hike back over Heceta Head and take the Valley River Trail past Beaver Lake to Washburne Park. We will walk at a moderate pace stopping several times for water and snacks. We will need one vehicle for each four hikers to make this happen.

  • Event Leader: Tom Rundle

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-653-0741

  • Event Leader Email: vivadancero@gmail.com

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Coastal

  • Departure Location: Eugene Target, W11th, parking lot closest to W11th

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 145

  • Season: 2017

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Equipment needed: Water, snack, lunch, foot ware for shallow stream crossing, attire for wind, rain and sun, optional sunscreen, trekking poles and bug spray if desired.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 6

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 800

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

We walked the Hobbit Beach south and looked at some colorful creatures in the tide pools. We continued on to the head land basalt towers and looked at several geologic structures including joints, faults, anticline folds, shear zones, cross-bedded sandstones, paleosols and landslide deposits. Then up the Hobbit trail and over the hill to the Heceta Head lighthouse where we took a tour. We had to avoid about a dozen major mud bogs on the trail. After lunch, back down to the Hobbit trail and north on the beach to Washburn Park. On the way back we encountered a dead sea lion being dissected by vultures. Mostly sunny weather except for a few sprinkles at the light house.