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Yachats to Walport

  • Start date: 04/30/2017

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 04/30/2017

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

We will stop at Smelt Sands State Park just north of the Adobe Motel to regroup for the car shuttle to Patterson State Park. I estimate that we would start hiking around 10:15.
We will eat lunch at Tillicum Beach State Park around 11:30. Depending on weather, we should be at Patterson State Park around 1:30 or 2:00. Bathrooms at all of the parks.
Low tide is at 10:59 am (-1.06) and high tide is at 5:25 pm. There are more than several stream crossings. I recommend tennis shoes/wool socks that you don’t mind getting wet. Don’t wear rubber boots that could give you blisters.
Please indicate if you can drive. I'd like to have four passengers in each car going to the coast - 12 people. . Rachelle is will meet us at Florence and help with car shuttle so that means there can be 13 can participate.

  • Event Leader: Janet Jacobsen

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-206-1251

  • Event Leader Email: jbjacobsen@comcast.net

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Coastal

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

  • Rating: Moderate

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 176

  • Season: 2017

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: sun protection, rain protection, appropriate clothing for weather, shoes for stream crossings. Water and Lunch.

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 7

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain:

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

After days of rain, we were thrilled with our sunny beach walk on the 804 Trail. We were greeted by thousands of mole crabs hunkering together or digging in the undulating sand depressions (inverted snow moguls) filled with water. The sandpipers were cheerful diners of this tasty morsel. We paid tribute to Obsidian member, Charlotte Mills who died on Earth Day and was an instrumental member of the "Friends of the 804 Trail,” spearheading court battles for public ownership of the historic coast trail. For future reference, we left Target at 8:00 and arrived at Smelt Sands State Park at 9:45 to organize the shuttle to Patterson State Park. We started our beach walk around 10:30 and were at Tillicum State Park at 11:30 for lunch.