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Lebanon trails & Bakery Run

  • Start date: 12/10/2022

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 12/10/2022

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

The city of Lebanon, along with community volunteers, have created more than 50 miles of trails in the last few years. Let's check it out!

We'll begin our day on Main Street, where we will pick up sweet and savory treats at Hazella's Scandinavian Bakery and Sugar Vibes. We'll take them to the North Shore trailhead, hike its 1.23 miles length, and on the way back, stop at Cheadle Lake to tour the 1-mile Island Loop Trail. Then we'll drive to McDowell Creek Falls Park for the lovely 1.8 mile waterfall loop.

The Lebanon trails are well-maintained and accessible. The McDowell Creek Falls trail is steep and slippery in places.

  • Event Leader: Carpenter Kathie

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Mountain

  • Departure Location: Amazon Park, 28th & Hilyard entrance parking lot

  • Rating: Easy

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 90

  • Season: 2023

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Layers for the weather, sturdy shoes and possibly poles, snacks if you don't plan to shop at the bakeries. Cash if you want to leave a little something in the tip jar at the bakeries.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 5.6

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 230

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

For many of us, this was the first time we had explored Lebanon (or in a couple of cases, even been there at all) and we agreed that the Lebanon downtown renaissance is progressing nicely. We started our day at Hazella Bake Shop (the name is the English version of Dutch gezillig "cosy") which lived up to its name and has a wonderful selection of sweet and savory pastries. Among our faves were the cardamom custard buns, ginger almond cake, leek and parmesan braid, lingonberry danish and blackberry hand pie. After a stop at Sugar Vibes, we ambled for 4 miles back and forth and around the North Shore Trail and Island Loop Trail. Build Lebanon Trails, the volunteer org that is developing an extensive system of trails for the commiunity, is also restoring habitat in the area. Birds we saw: Canada goose (of course), coot/mudhen, egret, heron, a heron rookery, cormorant and eagles on the way there. Also some very pretty ducks that we couldn't identify. As the habitat is restored, this should be a fantastic spot for viewing local and migratory birds.

We then took the back roads to McDowell Creek Falls Park for the 1.6 mile waterfall loop, which was green and lush. Although I had promised everyone that we would get rain, we had perfect weather and the rain didn't start until we were nearly back in Eugene. It was a nice day, and after all our exploring we were still back in Eugene early in the afternoon.

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

  • Number of spots on trip: 12
  • Number of spots available: 0
No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Carpenter, Kathie 541-505-2370 N —
2 Signed-Up Marsonette, Vern 541-600-5332 N —
3 Signed-Up Gould, Whitney 510-368-8941 N —
4 Signed-Up Nagy, Evelyn 541-514-4110 N —
5 Signed-Up Sigrist, Sandra 916-612-5517 N —
6 Signed-Up Krentz, Holger 541-868-7792 N —
7 Signed-Up Whitfield, Nancy 541-520-0450 N —
8 Signed-Up Ashmore, Charles 530-394-7880 N —
9 Signed-Up Cooper, David 541-868-5427 N —
10 Signed-Up Cooper, Carla 541-517-6785 N —
11 Signed-Up Jacobsen, Janet 541-206-1251 N —
12 Signed-Up Hawkins, David 541-505-0119 N —
13 Signed-Up Orsi, Barbara 541-515-9665 N —