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Turkey Trimming

  • Start date: 11/29/2019

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 11/29/2019

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

This is the 6th Annual Turkey Trimming hike! It's a fairly fast paced loop hike, not a saunter; after all, the goal is to burn off a few of the calories we ingested the previous day! The elevation gains are mostly in short, steep spurts. Each year, I vary the route. This year, it's a distinct seahorse shape! The route: along Amazon parkway (Rexius trail), over a couple of the new pedestrian/bike bridges, up a portion of the Ridgeline trail, 1 block down Willamette and then zigzagging between Donald and Fox Hollow. You might just discover a road/path you have never been on. We will be back in the parking lot 12:30ish...... just in time for lunch. 1 toilet along the way. Much of the route is on paved, low traffic streets, but about 1 mile is on the Rexius Trail and .5 mile on the Ridgeline Trail.

  • Event Leader: Lana Lindstrom

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-683-1409

  • Event Leader Email: lana_lindstrom@hotmail.com

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: Amazon Park, 28th & Hilyard entrance parking lot

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2020

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Rain clothes. Water. Snack. Regular hiking shoes rather than street shoes would probably be in order, especially if it's been raining. Umbrellas are OK.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 8

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 900

  • Non-Member Fees: 2

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

This was the 6th Annual trimming the fat after Thanksgiving hike and it was the coldest by far - about 29 degrees when we started! But all of us were prepared and stayed warm, briskly hiking the trails and back streets in south Eugene; the route this year resembled a seahorse! Along the way, we got to know each other better by playing speed dating Obsidian style. Three were born in Europe, 1 in the nation's capital, and several in California! The places we wanted to vacation were all over the map (literally) - beaches, mountains, cruises and just hanging out in our backyards. And we also learned about the recent bike/pedestrian improvements in the Amazon Corridor: the 3 new bridges across Amazon Creek each cost $200,000 and the entire project will cost $2.7 million when completed next year.