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Spencer Butte

  • Start date: 04/30/2016

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 04/30/2016

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

For this month's outing we will be working to discourage the use and proliferation of illicit trails along the West Trail. We will also have the opportunity to clean the trailhead kiosk and stairs.

  • 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: 2016

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Wear weather and work appropriate clothing and footwear. All necessary tools, equipment, gloves, and even some snacks will be provided by the City's Parks and Open Space staff.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 0.5

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 500

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Trail Maintenance

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

We met up at the main Spencer Butte parking lot for our last Saturday morning outing before we start our summer schedule to work with Dev (Deverton Cochrane) of EPOS to block illicit side trails along the West Trail. We packed shovels, saws, weed wrenches, and buckets, the tools of the trade for the day, up the trail. To disguise and dissuade people from continuing to use the side trails and shortcuts we transplanted ferns, digging them up, carrying them in buckets, and planting them in the trails. Some of our work killed 2 birds with one stone, we used the weed wrenches to pull holly (an invasive species) and pile it in the shortcuts between switchbacks to further deter people and dogs from short-cutting them. For the last side trail, a very well used and well established one, we cut down trees from around a meadow area to pile along the trail. This not only served to block the side trail but helps to maintain some of the remaining open meadow on the butte. Janet and Laurie did an excellent job cleaning the kiosk and steps at the main trailhead making the rest of us feel guilty walking down them in muddy boots.

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 Cooper, David 541-868-5427 N —
3 Signed-Up Rundle, Tom 541-653-0741 N —
4 Signed-Up Lodeesen, David 214-709-0352 N —
5 Signed-Up Chord, Roberta 541-357-2362 N —
6 Signed-Up Smith, Mike 520-488-9569 N —
7 Signed-Up Jacobsen, Janet 541-206-1251 N —
8 Signed-Up Funkhouser, Laurie 541-206-2303 N —
9 Signed-Up Hackett, Jane 541-953-7046 N —
10 Signed-Up Larsen, Todd 509-949-0034 N —
11 Signed-Up Salle, Isabelle +3-162-881-9185 N —
12 Signed-Up Sojak, Darko 541-799-9199 N —
13 Signed-Up Gilmore, Dan 541-510-5498 N —