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Amazon Hdwtrs/Spencer Butte

  • Start date: 06/10/2020

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 06/10/2020

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

In response to Covid-19 a number of changes have been as we restart hikes on a limited, trial basis. All hikes are limited to a 10 person max, members only, and no fees are being collected. Social distancing will be maintained. Everyone is required to carry a face covering and know how to us it properly. Carry hand sanitizer. More information is available on the website.

If you meet someone going your way, MASK UP, excuse yourself and pass. If someone is coming the other way, MASK UP and if that person doesn't get over, step aside and face the woods. The flowers are great. IF YOU ARE FOLLOWING WITHIN 8 FEET OF ANOTHER PERSON, YOU MUST MASK UP. WHY? You are in their slipstream, people change their pace and suddenly you're too close. PLEASE DO THIS.

WHEN CAN YOU LEAVE THE MASK OFF?
IF YOU CAN SEE UP THE TRAIL AND NOBODY IS COMING YOUR WAY.
YOU ARE MORE THAN 10 FEET BEHIND SOMEBODY YOU ARE FOLLOWING.
AT THE TOP, WHEN YOU ARE EATING AND DRINKING, AND PLEASE DO THAT AWAY FROM OTHERS.

PLEASE DO NOT CONGREGATE WHEN YOU MEET SOMEONE ON THE TRAIL, UNLESS YOU ARE 6' APART. SAME GOES FOR THE TOP.

THERE ARE A WIDE VARIETY OF RESPONSES TO COVID AMONG OBSIDIANS, ALMOST ALL OF WHOM ARE AT UPWARDS OF 8% RISK FOR DEATH IF THEY GET COVID. PLEASE RESPECT THE FEELINGS OF OTHERS. IT IS NOT A JOKE, MASKS ARE A SIGN OF RESPECT AND ARE TO SOME EXTENT PROTECTIVE OF YOURSELF AS WELL. THERE IS EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THIS.

If you don't feel well, please don't come. If you are not willing to follow the guidelines, please do not join the group.

  • Event Leader: Rubenstein Denise

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: Martin St & Canyon Drive, park on Martin St

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2020

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Face Covering, Hand Sanitizer Water, Snacks (no sharing)

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 6.2

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 1530

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Lovely hike and Tommy and Janet spotted our first phantom orchid. They are particular to the PNW and not so easy to spot. They are all white and without chlorophyll, which means it can’t make its own food, so the phantom orchid has to steal all of its nutrients from other plants. There are a variety of different ways that plants do this, but the phantom orchid uses fungi as go-betweens. There’s no direct contact between the orchid and its host plant (in this case, actually, the dead plants rotting on the forest floor). Instead, the tiny fibers of the fungus enter the roots of the host plant and pass nutrients along to them.
Source:Flowers of Marin

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

  • Number of spots on trip: 10
  • Number of spots available: 6
No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Rubenstein, Denise 248-514-5092 N —
2 Signed-Up Jacobsen, Janet 541-206-1251 N —
3 Signed-Up Young, Tommy 941-780-4156 N —
4 Signed-Up Ruzicka, Angie 541-521-6840 N —