Name: Tie Trail Drainage
Start: 2024-10-26T09:00:00-07:00
End: 2024-10-26T12:00:00-07:00

Past Activity

Tie Trail Drainage

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Start date: 10/26/2024
Start time: 9:00 AM
End date: 10/26/2024
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.

Jim Northrop and Jerome Wells,, Spencer Butte Trail M. 10.26.2024

Photo by: Darko Sojak

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: 2024
Permits Required:
Event Status: Passed
Supplies and Equipment Required:
participant prerequisites:
Conditions:
Total Distance: 2
Member Fees: —
Elevation Gain: 500
Non-Member Fees: —
Committee: Stewardship
Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

For this outing our group of stalwart Obsidian volunteers met up at the Main Spencer Butte parking lot. We grabbed tools after discussing the primary tasks for the day trailside brushing and drainage clearing. We carried an assortment of tools including handclippers, a shovel, 2 Terra hoes, 2 McLeods, a garden hoe, and a pitchfork. We bid Clara farewell at the trailhead stairs as we began our hike up and as she began clearing the stairs. Our hike took us up the Main Trail and then down the Tie Trail to nearly the Tie Trail and Ridgeline Trail Junction where we began our work clearing drainages: ditches, culverts, and outflows. We made our way back up the Tie Trail working as we went. Our larger than normal group made great progress and was only slightly aided by a fallen log covering 40 to 50 feet of drainage ditch that we didn't have to clear. We made it into the upper drainages above the open drain if you're familiar with the trail.

Special thanks go to Darko for cutting back brush from the trailsides using only handclippers and Clara for as always doing an immaculate job clearing the trailhead stairs.

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