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Yoran Lake-Lils Lake loop

  • Start date: 08/15/2020

  • Start time: 12:00 AM

  • End date: 08/15/2020

  • End time: 11:59 PM

Description:

Everyone will arrange their own transportation. Please refer to the Obsidians protocols for social distancing on the Obsidians main web page.
We will meet at South Eugene High School at 6:50am. We will meet up again in Oakridge at the Green Water rest area. We will park at a small lot between Shelter Cove Resort and the railroad tracks. No restrooms, no northwest pass needed.
We will hike the Yoran Lake trail to Yoran Lake, take a user trail to Lils Lake where we will have lunch and a swim if you wish. After lunch hike north on the PCT pass Arrowhead and Midnight Lake as we hike back to the cars.

  • Event Leader: Brad Bennett

  • Event Leader Phone: 541-359-5198

  • Event Leader Email: brad_sally@msn.com

  • Assistant Leader:

  • Event category: Trips

  • Area Type: Mountain

  • Departure Location: South Eugene High School, 19th & Patterson

  • Rating: Difficult

  • Roundtrip total drive miles: 140

  • Season: 2020

  • Permits Required:

  • Event Status: Passed

  • Supplies and Equipment Required: Face covering, water, lunch,

  • participant prerequisites:

  • Conditions:

  • Total Distance: 12.7

  • Member Fees: 1

  • Elevation Gain: 1300

  • Non-Member Fees: 5

  • Committee: Trips

  • Junior member fees: —

Trip Report

We started out by meeting at SEHS at 7:50 am. After a short howdy doody were out of there by 8 am, meeting up again at the Oakridge GreenWaters rest area. From there we caravanned to the trailhead. We looked right and then left. Then we safely crossed 2 sets of railroad tracks.
Hiking up the Yoran Lake trail we made our first rest stop at Karen Lake. Moving along we came upon Yoran Lake quickly where we stopped to take pictures with Diamond Peak across the Lake. We hiked the lake shore on our way to bushwhacking our way to Lils Lake. To my surprise we no longer have to bushwhack this section of trail. Someone has cut out the trees on the trail and has done a lot of tread work digging out the trail. Reaching Lils Lake we ate lunch where 7 of us enjoyed a refreshing swim. After drying of we hiked north on the PCT stopping to take a look at Midnight Lake. It was too much for Darian looking at al that wate rso he jumped in for a swim making it a two bagger for him. We continued on completing the 12.5 mile loop back to the car