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Canceled: Lookout Creek

  • Start date: 08/11/2019

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 08/11/2019

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Lookout Creek Old Growth Trail located in the H J Andrews Experimental Forest with trees 450 years of age. This trail is hiked out and back. With some of the going steeply up and down. This area has several on going research projects. I have not hiked this trail before, so I consider this hike exploratory. I will have a few pages of history on the area for those who would like to know more.

  • Event Leader: Jane Hackett

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-953-7046

  • Event Leader Email: hackett1575@comcast.net

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type:

  • Departure Location: Behind McDonalds, 57th and Main in Springfield

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 90

  • Season: 2019

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Water and lunch. Dress for weather

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 5

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 1100

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Amazing hike. This area probably is the best representation of what the Cascade range looked like before logging. The huge trees and lush understory with no evidence of any logging was startling. I think it helped it had rained earlier so while your pants are getting soaked I felt like I was in a tropical forest. The trail is rough and from the time you drop down into the canyon and cross the first bridge at the beginning you are gaining over a thousand feet of elevation in short steep pitches. We stopped short of the second trailhead at the second creek crossing due to the bridge that looked more like a wet slide then a bridge. We all thought this would be a great fall color hike because of the abundance of vine maple. Also a spring wildflower hike because of the numerous rhododendron. The only time I have ever thought Oregon Grape was beautiful. Big bunches of blue grapes laying close to the ground offering its contrast to the green. I recommend rain pants and poles if you go.