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Spencer Butte

  • Start date: 06/27/2012

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 06/27/2012

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

We will be working to clear the trail and trail sides of overhanging plants and branches. We will hike up the Main Trail to the Junction Meadow in which we will remove limbs that have fallen into the meadow during the snowstorm. There are a few overhanging vine maples along the trail to the summit and we'll prune them back. We'll also hike down the Tie Trail and cut back plants that are overhanging the trail sides.

  • 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: 2012

  • 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.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 2

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 500

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Trail Maintenance

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

We met Christer LaBrecque at the main Spencer Butte parking lot where he dropped off tools and snacks for us. We then hiked up the trail to the Junction Meadow where we split into 2 groups. Todd and Matt & Oliver went up the main trail to cut back a couple of large vine maples from overhanging the trail. The rest of the group worked to scatter branches that had fallen in the meadow out of the meadow and under the trees.

Afterwards we regrouped to head down the Tie Trail again breaking into 2 groups. Jim, Dan, & Clara worked from a little after the meadow clearing the trail sides, predominantly to uphill side of overhanging plants. The rest of the group hiked down the Tie Trail and then began working back cutting overhanging trees and shrubs from along the trail so that as they leaf out they don't come down into the trail corridor.

We got a lot done but there is still more to do. It has been about 5 years since we've done this work along the Tie Trail and there is a lot of plant material to remove from overhanging the trail.

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 Emlen, Clara 541-746-2181 N —
3 Signed-Up Quigley (old reg), Michael 541-221-6833 N —
4 Signed-Up Jacobsen, Janet 541-206-1251 N —
5 Signed-Up Whitfield, Jim 541-937-2364 N —
6 Signed-Up Sanazaro, Susan 505-906-7327 N —
7 Signed-Up Gilmore, Dan 541-510-5498 N —
8 Signed-Up Lizewski, Ed 541-505-0976 N —
9 Signed-Up Naik, Jyoti 239-940-1953 N —
10 Signed-Up Larsen, Todd 509-949-0034 N —
11 Signed-Up Hackett, Jane 541-953-7046 N —
12 Signed-Up Swartz, Jessica — N —
13 Signed-Up Bell, Oliver 503-884-8829 N —