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Tahkenitch Creek Exploratory

  • Start date: 05/21/2017

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 05/21/2017

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

NEW Trip Description: We will see a variety of environments including dunes, inter-dune ponds, beaches, estuaries, and coastal forests. In an earlier post, I contemplated perhaps crossing Tahkenitch Creek. However, there will be no stream crossing because the flow is too deep to be safe. This will reduce the walking distance by about a mile and the elevation gain by about 60 feet. There may be mosquitoes in a few places. Please bring at least a liter of water.

  • Event Leader: Tom Rundle

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-653-0741

  • Event Leader Email: vivadancero@gmail.com

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Coastal

  • Departure Location: Eugene Target, W11th, parking lot closest to W11th

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 148

  • Season: 2017

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Equipment needed: Water, snack, lunch, foot ware for stream crossing, attire appropriate for weather, optional trekking poles or staff, sunscreen, bug spray.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 7

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 840

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

I told the hikers there was no need to bring their stream crossing shoes because we were not crossing Tahkenitch Creek. As it turned out, we encountered about a dozen swamp bogs covering the trail and most of them were knee-deep or higher. We had to cross most of them in both directions, so we did the equivalent of about 20 stream crossings and some of us got very wet. This is a hiking crew I will never forget because everyone waded through bravely and cheerfully without the slightest complaint. However, most of the trail was beautiful with wildflowers and pine forest. We had lunch on a foggy beach, visited Three Mile Lake, returned on the dune trail and waded through the bogs a second time the get back to the trail head.