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Past Activity

Spencer Butte

  • Start date: 08/28/2013

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 08/28/2013

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

We will work to improve the Main Trail and upper Tie Trail by cleaning drainage, brush-out the trail side and illicit trails, and cutting back blackberries.

  • Event Leader: Bell Matt

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trail Maintenance

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2013

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Weather and work appropriate footwear and clothing. All tools, equipment, gloves, and even some snacks will be provided by the City Parks and Open Spaces Division.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 2

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 500

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Trail Maintenance

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Our group met up at the main parking lot and got tools to get ready to improve the Main Trail and the upper section of the Tie Trail.

We hiked up the main trail checking culverts and clearing drainage ditches and we did the same at the top of the Tie Trail. We'd packed in a couple of machetes to help us cut back the clump of blackberries near the top of the Tie Trail. In addition to hacking back blackberries we cut back over growing plants from along the sides of the trails. We also began picking up garbage along the way, a task we continued doing all the way to the summit eventually collecting a half garbage can full.

In the newer section of switchbacks we added a lot of branches to re-block one of the switchbacks that people continue to cut and remove the branches we add. Hopefully, what we added will take a while to be removed.

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Bell, Matt 503-884-8829 N —
2 Signed-Up Chord, Roberta 541-357-2362 N —
3 Signed-Up Estes, Autumn 541-357-2362 N —
4 Signed-Up Larsen, Todd 509-949-0034 N —
5 Signed-Up Soussan, Pat 541-653-7997 N —
6 Signed-Up Gilmore, Dan 541-510-5498 N —
7 Signed-Up Jacobsen, Janet 541-206-1251 N —
8 Signed-Up Predeek, Dave 541-345-5531 N —
9 Signed-Up Whang, Roy 949-540-8769 N —
10 Signed-Up Whitfield, Jim 541-937-2364 N —
11 Signed-Up Funkhouser, Laurie 541-206-2303 N —
12 Signed-Up Dunlap, Larry 541-337-0785 N —