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Mt. Pisgah Spring Equinox

  • Start date: 03/20/2023

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 03/20/2023

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

** Meet by the bathrooms by the Pavilion. ** We may decide to have two groups. Celebrate the spring equinox, the first day of spring at 2:24pm while taking a walk on the arboretum trails. In years past we have seen fawn lilies and camus. Optional to take Trail 35 up to the main trail and perhaps take Trail 3 for a longer loop around Swing Hill. “The vernal equinox marks the turning point when daylight begins to overtake the darkness and the North Pole begins to lean toward the sun again. This is the time of year when we begin to experience more life force creative energy within our minds and bodies.”

  • Event Leader: Jacobsen Janet

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: Mt Pisgah, West Trailhead (Main Parking Lot)

  • Rating: Easy

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2023

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required:

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 3

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 500

  • Non-Member Fees: 2

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

We celebrated the Spring Equinox at 2:24 pm at the Rhoda Love bench on the Jetta Trail in the Mt. Pisgah Arboretum. On the other arboretum trails (Riverbank, Hillside, Zig-Zag, Buford, Creek and Incense-cedar) we viewed spring beauty flowers while the trillium and fawn lily needed a few more spring days to bloom. At one junction some took the Creek Trail back to the parking lot while the rest of us went up Trail 35 to the main trail before we returned. Another celebration was the arboretum’s 50th anniversary of when they leased the land back in 1973. By 1984 a one-mile Nature Trail was completed with numbered stations. Obsidians held several trail maintenance activities to help with the clearing of those new trails. Now the 209-acre nature facility offers many trails through diverse Willamette Valley habitats making our two hour walk so interesting.Their Wildflower Show will be May 21. For more history visit the arboretum website: https://mountpisgaharboretum.org/history/

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

  • Number of spots on trip: 16
  • Number of spots available: 0
No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Jacobsen, Janet 541-206-1251 N —
2 Signed-Up Webster, Frank 925-400-3724 N —
3 Signed-Up Webster, Judy 925-353-8476 N —
4 Signed-Up Allen, Jane 541-731-1338 N 2
5 Signed-Up Iredale, Gwyneth 541-505-0055 N —
6 Signed-Up Larsen, Sandra 541-687-2589 N —
7 Signed-Up Nagy, Evelyn 541-514-4110 N —
8 Signed-Up Furst, Denise 541-674-3007 N 2
9 Signed-Up Cooper, David 541-868-5427 N —
10 Signed-Up Cooper, Carla 541-517-6785 N —
11 Signed-Up Baldwin, Mari 541-206-9251 N —
12 Signed-Up Anderson, Heidi 805-798-1842 N —
13 Signed-Up Rorden, Emilia 206-235-4810 N 2
14 Signed-Up Parker, Wayne 541-833-0002 N —
15 Signed-Up Silvestri, Janice 619-554-2412 N —
16 Signed-Up Hollander, Anne 541-338-9036 N —
17 Signed-Up Parker, Leslie 541-343-1414 N —
18 Signed-Up Pflaster, Stephanie 310-613-3650 N 2
19 Signed-Up Hougardy, Mark 541-206-9532 N —
20 Signed-Up Sojak, Darko 541-799-9199 N —
21 Signed-Up Allen, Jane 541-731-1338 N 2
22 Signed-Up Krentz, Holger 541-868-7792 N —