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Rosary Lake(s)

  • Start date: 02/03/2018

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 02/03/2018

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

This is a low end difficult/high moderate snowshoe mostly on the basis of distance. We will snowshoe in on the PCT from Willamette Pass to Lower Rosary Lake, climbing about 700 feet in just over 3 miles. The ascent is gentle. Depending upon the conditions, we will continue either over or (more likely) around the lake up over a divide to Middle Rosary Lake (if we can), around it and the short distance to the south end of Upper Rosary Lake. Pulpit Rock will be above us, but we won’t be climbing up to Tait’s Loop Trail. Expect adequate snow, probably icy. Return way we came, plan on being back at LCC around 3-4.

  • Event Leader: Mike Smith

  • Event Leader Phone: 520-488-9569

  • Event Leader Email: mssq@comcast.net

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Mountain

  • Departure Location: Lane Community College, parking lot nearest stoplight

  • Rating: Difficult

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 130

  • Season: 2018

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Drivers: bring sno-park pass. Riders, bring a plastic or cloth bag for wet gear. Bring a pad to sit on, sunscreen, chapstick perhaps, liquids, warm layered clothing. Expect it to be in 40s, and there will not be significant precipitation.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 8.5

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 700

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

I led two non-members, good snowshoers and travel companions, into all three Rosary Lakes. The first two miles had a total of about 0.3 mile of bare ground and other places with marginal snow. After that, there was enough snow for snowshoeing--or hiking--as one of the participants tried to do! We saw a lot of water on the ice on Middle Rosary Lake and Pulpit Rock from each of the three lakes, giving a very different view from each. We had lunch at the top of Upper Rosary Lake then looked at possibly doing the loop but decided not to, and came back the way we came. We saw nobody on the way out and only four on the way back. This might be the last snowshoe of the year, but I think as a combination hike/snowshoe, the loop could be done.