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U of O Campus Walk

  • Start date: 03/22/2021

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 03/22/2021

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Meeting place: Steps of Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.

We'll walk at a leisurely pace around basically a wide perimeter of campus, including the new Knight Science Campus across Franklin. Spring is here; let's see how the landscape differs from the last season.

Approximate duration: 2 hours.

  • Event Leader: Joanna Alexander

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-513-9624

  • Event Leader Email: joalexgypsy@gmail.com

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Urban

  • Departure Location: See Trip Description

  • Rating: Easy

  • Roundtrip total drive miles:

  • Season: 2021

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Face covering, weather appropriate clothing in layers, water Obsidian COVID protocols will be followed. See website home page.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 2.5

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain:

  • Non-Member Fees: 2

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

This second day of spring, the forecast showers held off until after the walk, making for a delightful setting to amble about campus. Introductions included a little story about our relationship with trees; one of us marveled at the fact that she was born just steps away from our meeting place, while another said being an Army brat, she was the complete opposite; one played beneath a tree in her childhood while another climbed one; still another likes to walk around and look at landscaped gardens and trees and name them. We saw fabulous saucer magnolia trees in bloom and other trees in bud. We lingered in the old part of campus looking at its old trees, including the amazing Bigleaf maple, extraordinarily festooned with licorice fern. We stopped to look at Jeff Bartow's sculpture in front of Kalapuya Ilihi "From the Mad River to the Little Salmon River or the Responsibility of Raising a Child". A stop at Starbucks across from Hiron's satisfied natural and social needs after we'd visited the Arts Complex and the Knight Science Center trees. Everyone seemed to enjoy the morning quite a bit.