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Summit Steps & Trailhead

  • Start date: 08/25/2021

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 08/25/2021

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

This month we will clean the summit steps, trailhead kiosk and pick up litter.

Meet at the main Willamette Trailhead parking lot, the paved lot on Willamette Street.

  • Event Leader: Matt Bell

  • Event Leader Phone: 503-884-8829

  • Event Leader Email: matthew.v.bell@gmail.com

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trail Maintenance

  • Area Type:

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2021

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Please bring your own mask and tools. Some tools may be provided by the City. Be sure to wear weather and work appropriate clothing and footwear.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 2

  • Member Fees: —

  • Elevation Gain: 500

  • Non-Member Fees: —

  • Committee: Trail Maintenance

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Our group of volunteers met up on a cool evening to hike up the butte and clean the summit steps. Most of our group hiked to the top of the butte before working our way back down. The garden hoes and square bladed shovels made short work of loosening and scrapping the grit and rocks from the steps. People's hard work was followed by loud and dusty work of blowing the steps off with a backpack leaf blower. On our way back down we also picked up garbage from along the trail including an unopened Smart Water bottle which wasn't so smart to litter.

Special thanks go to Pat and Helen for cleaning the trailhead kiosk and steps.