Activities Calendar

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Activity: Meeting

Leader: Carla Cooper

Bring your laptop or small device and join us at the Lodge for one-on-one help changing your password and logging in to the new site for the first time. Drop in 5:30–7:30 pm.

Main Trailhead Beautification

Activity: Work Party

Leader: Matt Bell

We will be cleaning and beautifying the main Spencer Butte trailhead. Tasks will include sweeping, kiosk cleaning, leaf blowing, string trimming, and painting.

Santiam Wagon Road/House Rock

Activity: Hike

Leader: David Cooper

The historic Santiam Wagon was designed to lead settlers and their livestock eastward to the pasture lands of Central Oregon and to markets in eastern Oregon and Idaho. It became a major east-west byway through Cascades. This year the Trips Committee intends to have hikes all along this route.

Wilderness First Aid

Leader: Maryanne Reiter

This is a National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) Wilderness First Aid class.

National Trails Day

Activity: Work Party

Leader: Matt Bell

For National Trails Day we will work to brush the trail sides of the Ridgeline Trail in preparation for the City's seasonal crew to come through with string trimmers.

Meet at the Willamette & 52nd Trailhead parking lot, the gravel lot on Willamette.

Buford Park & Mt. Pisgah

Activity: Work Party

Leader: Darko Sojak

Obsidians volunteer day with Friends of Buford Park & Mt. Pisgah. Work party in native plant nursery: weeding, seed harvest, caring for plots of native plants and other nursery/gardening-type tasks....

Canceled North Fork of the Willamette

Activity: Hike

Leader: Jane Hackett

We will do 2 lower sections of trail. This requires a shuttle. The trail stay close to the river. There should be good wildflowers this time of year. Back in town by mid afternoon…

Blanton Ridge to Spencer Butte

Activity: Hike

Leader: Tommy Young

We will start on time at 6:45 am. Please arrive 10 minutes before the start time. This hike to the top of Spencer Butte takes the less traveled route from Blanton Road. We'll cross Blanton Ridge before continuing on from the 52nd and Willamette trailhead. And then to the Spencer Butte summit.

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