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Obsidian Grounds

  • Start date: 09/24/2019

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 09/24/2019

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

We need to:
• Pressure wash handicap parking area. You would probably want storm boots and pants (the heavy duty, impermeable rain gear) and ear protection to do this.
• The blackberries are encroaching all around the grounds perimeter, so if you want to work on cutting them back dressing in thorn resistant long sleeved shirt and long pants would be good, along with heavy gloves, pruners and/or loppers.
• The gutters on both the Lodge and the storage building need cleaning. This would involve working from a ladder.
• Ivy and poison oak are climbing and taking over some trees and needs to be cut out. This would likely mean contact with the poison oak so knowledge of your sensitivity to it and how to deal with it would be important if you want to take this on.
• We need to clean up the areas that we recently expanded our mowing into to the south and west of the Lodge.

  • Event Leader: John Jacobsen

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-914-1132

  • Event Leader Email: johnwjacobsen@comcast.net

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Lodge Building

  • Area Type:

  • Departure Location: Obsidian Lodge

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2019

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Gloves, your favorite weeding and pruning tools. Note: there is poison oak around the Lodge grounds in a number of areas, so beware.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance:

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain:

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Lodge Building

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Thanks to Doug Nelson for pressure washing the handicap parking area. Thanks to Dave Cooper for cleaning the gutters on both the Lodge and the storage building. Thanks to Brad Bennett and Dave Cooper for attacking the blackberries encroaching on the Lodge ground's perimeter. Thanks to Brenda Kameenui for mowing the grass (and weeds). The leader took the opportunity to finish up work on the new wooden railings on the deck and front stairs.