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Obsidian Limited Access Area

  • Start date: 08/02/2013

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 08/04/2013

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

This is will be a trail maintenance activity in the Obsidian Limited Entry Area (Obsidian Trail) off of McKenzie Pass. Early Friday morning we’ll meet with the rangers at 7AM at the ranger station before we backpack in 6 miles where we’ll setup our basecamp. Over the course of the weekend we’ll work on a restoration project with the Forest Service. The Forest Service will supply all the tools and provide on the job instruction on what needs to be performed. We'll backpack out on Sunday.

  • Event Leader: Larsen Todd

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trail Maintenance

  • Area Type: Mountain

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 146

  • Season: 2013

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Backpack and camping gear, food for three days, weather dependent clothing, work gloves

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 12

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 1500

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Trail Maintenance

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

We met up with a couple of other forest service volunteers at the ranger station bright and early Friday morning. The previous days thunderstorms had pulled our wilderness ranger onto fire duty, but we were left with the instructions and tools for our project. We hiked into our first meadow project early on Friday and began building check dams over an old trail that cuts through the meadow. After creating over 35 of them, we began a late afternoon hike up to Obsidian Falls for our base camp. Luckily we arrived after the storm clouds had passed on.

On Saturday, we finished up the previous day's meadow with an additional 5 dams before moving on to the next area. At our second project location, we installed almost 100 check dams, we really got the system down! Sunday was spent hiking out, and performing some light maintenance in sunshine meadow as well as obliterating several fire rings.

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

  • Number of spots on trip: 2
  • Number of spots available: 0
No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Larsen, Todd 509-949-0034 N —
2 Signed-Up Grant, Elizabeth 541-514-1176 N —