Name: Fox Hollow Trail Maintenance
Start: 2025-02-22T09:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-02-22T12:00:00-08:00

Past Activity

Fox Hollow Trail Maintenance

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Start date: 02/22/2025
Start time: 9:00 AM
End date: 02/22/2025
End time: 12:00 PM

Description:

We don't have a project yet. But, we're certain we'll be doing some trail maintenance.

Meet at the main Spencer Butte Trailhead parking lot, the paved lot on Willamette.

Oliver cutting blackberries to retrieve discarded cans and bottles.

Photo by: Janet Jacobsen

Event Leader: Matt Bell
Event Leader Phone: 503-884-8829
Event Leader Email: matthew.v.bell@gmail.com
Assistant Leader:
Event category: Stewardship
Area Type: Urban
Departure Location: See Trip Description
Rating: Moderate
Roundtrip total drive miles:
Season: 2025
Permits Required:
Event Status: Passed
Supplies and Equipment Required:
participant prerequisites: Wear weather and work appropriate clothing and footwear. All necessary tools, equipment, and gloves are provided by the City's Parks and Open Space division.
Conditions:
Total Distance: 2
Member Fees: —
Elevation Gain: 500
Non-Member Fees: —
Committee: Stewardship
Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

For this month\'s outing we found out at the last minute that we were to work in Amazon Headwaters Park on the upper and lower Ridgeline trails clearing drainages. So we switched the meeting location to the Fox Hollow Trailhead parking lot. While we waited Oliver and Dan helped Janet get some bottles and cans out of the blackberries around the parking lot. We first hiked in on the lower trail down to the fiberglass boardwalk on the Dillard Connector Trail stopping along the way to clear the ditch and double culverts at the trail junction with the Pipe Dream mountain biking trail. We let the City know that the outflows require some chainsaw work. At the fiberglass boardwalk Dan dug under it to create a path for the water the Bell boys tackled digging down through a high point for the remaining water to flow beside instead of on the boardwalk. Janet, Pat, and the Bell boys then searched for a non-existent additional ditch and culvert on the Dillard Connector Trail. We hiked up to the upper trail and began clearing drainages and culverts and were only thwarted by one culvert being too small for our garden hoe to fit inside owing to it being a pvc pipe instead of the standard corrugated pipe. After finishing up we hiked back to the trailhead for snacks and juice. <br />
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Special thanks go to Janet for bringing delicious snacks and Clara for cleaning the Main Trailhead steps.

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