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Rooster Rock

  • Start date: 04/08/2022

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 04/08/2022

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

This is a steep hike in the Menagerie Wilderness to Rooster Rock but to also explore/scout the short undeveloped trails to the rock formations of the Hen and Egg. Meet at 9:00 at Foster Dam Viewpoint (also called Shea Viewpoint). It is on north side of highway across from the Point Restaurant, 6305 Highway 20. There can be optional carpooling from there to Trout Creek Trailhead where there is limited parking. Janet Jacobsen will facilitate carpooling from Springfield at 8:00 from Weyerhaeuser-McKenzie Natural Area at 42nd St. and 3809 Marcola Road. See the April 2021 Bulletin for information about The Hen.

  • Event Leader: Winther Paul

  • Assistant Leader: Jacobsen Janet

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Mountain

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 110

  • Season: 2022

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Water. Lunch. Snacks. Layered clothing appropriate for weather. Hiking poles will be helpful

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 6.6

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 2300

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

The three hikers from Eugene met me at Foster Lake Viewpoint at 9:00 am where we were greeted by wind and drizzle. At the Menagerie Trailhead conditions were much improved and lasted the rest of the day. The trail starts out gradually and gets steeper the further you go. We kept a moderate but steady pace which put us at the summit before noon. Our plan to visit the Hen and Chicken rock formations was abandoned due to wet conditions though we could see them from the trail. We stopped for a close look at Rooster Rock as two of the group had not been here before. Lunch at the summit area was nice and we even saw some blue sky. The Galileo orchids stole the trailside flower show from the trillium, spring beauty, wood violet, and snow queen. We met no one else on the trail. After such an unexpectedly lovely day, we made it back to our meet-up place by 2:30. Look for this hike again in a couple of months.

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

  • Number of spots on trip: 8
  • Number of spots available: 3
No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Winther, Paul 541-666-9956 N 1
2 Signed-Up Jacobsen, Janet 541-206-1251 N 1
3 Signed-Up Shapiro, Kate 541-999-0091 N 5
4 Signed-Up Orsi, Barbara 541-515-9665 N 1
5 Signed-Up Keim, Frank 775-762-3510 N 5