Calendar

Past Activity

Canceled: Waldo Lake Full Loop

  • Start date: 09/26/2021

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 09/26/2021

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Morning at Waldo Lake will be around 48°F. Day will be mainly sunny except for a few afternoon clouds. High 67F. Winds SW at 10 to 15 mph. Most of the trail around the lake is shaded. We will have some afternoon full exposure sections and great views on and around one of world cleanest lakes.
Please be at Amazon parking lot few minutes early. We will leave promptly at 6:30 AM and drive to the Shadow Bay at Waldo Lake. Don’t forget ten essentials, lunch, on-the-move snacks and 2 liters of hydration. Make sure to have some more water in car for your return home. For this long day - fast paced - long hike wear shoes that are your feet “familiar with”. Please read the updated COVID Protocols.
According to Willamette National Forest website, Waldo Lake trail (Jim Weaver trail) is 19.6 miles long, Hiking Project listed 21.4 miles and AllTrails 19.2 miles. Other sources mentioning 21.8 miles and 20.8 miles.
So, we will see… We’ll have sevreal tracking devices so we can have our mileage ?

If you have any question email darchey@comcast.net

  • Event Leader: Sojak Darko

  • Assistant Leader: Hubata-Vacek Lubos

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Mountain

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

  • Rating: Difficult

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 152

  • Season: 2021

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Ten essentials, “on-the-move snacks”, lunch and 2 liters of hydration. Please have some more water in car for your return home. Solid-sole footwear recommended. Please read the updated COVID Protocols on the Obsidian website.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 22

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 1600

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

Completing Jim Weaver (Waldo Lake Trail) was one of “goals” in my 2021 bucket list.
Waldo Lake is a large, pure, deep blue, natural alpine lake in the Cascade Mountains north of Hwy 58.
Today, with great group of Obsidians friends we finished 22-mile loop averaging 3.4 moving miles per hour.
We started at Shadow Bay and hiked clockwise, sharing the west side trail with two dozen of mountain bikers and handful backpackers. Just before noon, we stopped for a brief lunch at sunny Northwest peninsula with a great view of Oregon’s second deepest lake.
After the lunch we continued all northwest to the source of North Fork Middle Fork Willamette River and then east through the 1996 Charlton fire to the North Waldo Campground.
On the last stretch of trail 3590, between North Shore and Shadow Bay we met only one long distance runner, a couple mountain bikers and one person on electric unicycle.
At the end of the trail Esme and Joel hosted tailgate refreshment picnic.
Thanks to all for a great day!

Members & Guests signed-up & waitlisted

  • Number of spots on trip: 10
  • Number of spots available: 0
No. Status Full name Phone Transportation Needed? Trip Fee # Can Take?
1 Signed-Up Sojak, Darko 541-799-9199 N 1
2 Signed-Up Hubata-Vacek, Lubos 541-913-2837 N 1
3 Signed-Up Ruzicka, Angie 541-521-6840 N 1
4 Signed-Up Gould, Whitney 510-368-8941 N 1
5 Signed-Up Greer, Joel 281-701-0205 N 5
6 Signed-Up Greer, Esme 281-701-0206 N 5
7 Signed-Up Carpenter, Kathie 541-505-2370 N 1
8 Signed-Up Bennett, Brad 541-359-5198 N 5
9 Signed-Up Cooney, Marguerite 541-600-0217 N 1
10 Signed-Up Graham, Mike 979-571-2534 N 1
11 Signed-Up Zhao, Mi 206-369-3644 N 5
12 Signed-Up Orsi, Barbara 541-515-9665 N 1
13 Signed-Up Iredale, Gwyneth 541-505-0055 N 1
14 Signed-Up Scida, Alex 631-739-3322 N 5