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A Taste of New Wilderness Story and Photos by Chris Stockdale VOLUME 69 JUNE 2009 NUMBER 6 A Taste of New Wilderness Story and Photos by Chris Stockdale Inside This Issue A Taste of New Wilderness 1 PRING BASIN AND THE BADLANDS are two Oregon areas recently designated Promoting Obsidians 2 as Wilderness when President Obama signed the 2009 Omnibus Public Lands Ewart Baldwin Obituary 3 S Management Act on March 30. Thanks to the efforts of numerous organiza- Remembering Ewart 3 tions and congressional support of Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, as well as Jan’s Jottings 4 Representative Greg Walden, these spectacular parts of Oregon will now be pre- served for generations to come. Spencer Buttes Compared 5 Conservation 7 Board Notes 8 Even More Ridgeline Trail 9 Trip Reports & Activities 10-15 Upcoming 16 Conservation Special Hike 16 Barb’s Sampler 17 At the Lodge 18 Calendar 19 Classifieds 19 Picture of the Month 20 Dates to Remember June 16 SciEd Tuesday June 26 Nordic Walking Potluck June 27 July Bulletin Deadline July 1 Board Meeting Complete current schedules at: www.obsidians.org or John Day River valley, Spring Basin Register-Guard – Outdoors – Tuesday Just a 4-hour drive away from Eugene, Spring Basin is located above the John Day River near the Clarno Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. The best way to go is via Madras and then heading east to Antelope (the former do- Summer Schedule main of the Rajneesh cult followers). A spectacular part of the journey, once you There is no potluck in July and have left Antelope and have driven a few miles up to the top of a ridge is the incredi- August and no Board meeting ble view of hundreds of hills and deep valleys stretching into the distance. in August. The July/August COMPRISING APPROXIMATELY 8,600 ACRES of rolling hills filled with numerous Bulletin will go in the mail wildflowers in spring, sage brush, native bunchgrass and western junipers, Spring July 8. There is not a separate Basin provides habitat for wildlife such as snakes, bobcats, coyotes, cougar, mule August Bulletin. Any Bulletin deer and elk. It is also a great area for bird watching, as it is frequented by birds such submittals that pertain to Au- as golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, meadowlarks, chukar and bluebirds. gust and early September ac- At the beginning of May, I was fortunate enough to visit and hike in both of these tivities need to arrive by June 27, the July Bulletin deadline. new wilderness areas. My time in the Spring Basin Wilderness was in the company of others from the High Desert Committee of the Oregon Chapter of the Sierra Club. We stayed at the OMSI Hancock Field Station camp where, although accommoda- (Continued on page 6) Obsidians Promoting the Obsidians OBSIDIANS, INC P.O. Box 322, Eugene, OR 97440 Website: www.obsidians.org Board of Directors President - Jim Duncan Vice President - Jim Pierce Secretary - Laurie Funkhouser Treasurer - Stewart Hoeg Wayne Deeter Larry Huff Marshall Kandell Verna Kocken Barb Revere Board meetings are held at 6 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month, except August, at the Obsidian lodge. Committee Chairpersons Byways-By-Bus........................ Liz Reanier Climbs ....................................... Larry Huff Concessions ........................ Kathleen Floyd Conservation ................................ Pat Bitner Entertainment ................ Laurie Funkhouser Extended Trips ......................... Jim Duncan Finance .................................. Stewart Hoeg Lodge Building ...................... Doug Nelson Lodge Grounds ..................... John Jacobsen Librarian/Historian ....... Lenore McManigal Celebrity Award winner Jim Pierce as he appeared on KVAL Membership ............................. Barb Revere Online ................................... Wayne Deeter HIS YEAR'S OBSIDIAN CELEB- bers would sign up to lead a trip. Publications ............................. Barb Revere RITY AWARD goes to our very Publicity .................................. Elle Weaver T In the same insert, the article, “High Safety .......................................Sue Sullivan own Jim Pierce for his star performance Cascades Lava Trails Ooze with Raw Science & Education .............. Joella Ewing in a news story about hiking. He was on Beauty” by Chris Cunningham includes Summer Camp .................. Lana Lindstrom KVAL News on May 11 in a clip titled Summer Trips ............................. Jim Pierce an interview with Dan Christensen. Trail Maintenance ..................... Peter Green Undiscovered Oregon: Brice Creek Dan offers common sense tips for hik- Winter Trips .................... Paul Flashenberg Trail. Wearing his Obsidian shirt and ing on lava flows such as needing to Youth ........................................................... carrying his pack with Obsidian pay attention to temperature, have The patches, Jim guided Laura Rillos to plenty of water, sunglasses, and stay on OB S I D I A N Bulletin Trestle Creek Falls. If you would like the trail. Both Dan and Chris are Ob- © 2009 to watch a replay, there is a link on our sidian members. Published monthly, except August. Articles, website or: story ideas, letters to the editor and other www.kval.com/news/local/44751212.html Elle Weaver, Publicity Chair editorial submissions may be emailed to: [email protected] Jim pulled off another featured per- Although email is preferred, formance when his hike to the North submissions may also be sent to: Fork of the Middle Fork of the Wil- The Obsidian Bulletin lamette River was featured in the Reg- P.O. Box 51424, Eugene, OR 97405 ister Guard’s magazine insert, Discov- For reprint rights, contact above. ery – A Guide to Recreation from the Welcome! Coast to the Cascades, 2009 edition. Deadline for July 2009 Bulletin Jim must have talked a bit about the New Members Saturday, June 27, 2009 Obsidians and the reporter, Nate Traylor, put it all together just right. SOJAK, DARKO (Active) Assembly/Mailing Team The article was very complimentary on 4105 Eddystone Pl., Eugene 97404 For May Bulletin noting the variety of Obsidian activities Assembly & Mail Manager ..... Lou Maenz 525-1124 [email protected] Call Manager ........................ Vera Woolley with a focus on climb school, summer Reinstated Members Assembly Team … Vi Johnson, John & camp, bus trips, and potlucks. Nate’s Lenore McManigal, Barb Revere, Janet comment, “Biking, hiking, skiing, and BARBER, BRIAN (A) & Richard Speelman kayaking: The Obsidians do it all” 1950 Parkside Drive, Eugene, OR Editorial Team could not have been better said. The 97403 Writing & Editorial Staff …. Jean Coberly, color photo of the 15 smiling hikers 684-8743 [email protected] Bea Fontana, Janet & John Jacobsen, sent a welcome invitation to anyone Joanne Ledet, Barb Revere, Beth Roy interested in hiking with us this sum- Copy Editors .... Jean Coberly & Beth Roy Graphics, Design & Desktop Publishing mer. Jim, Summer Trip Chair, would ............. Stewart Hoeg & John Jacobsen smile even more if a few more mem- Page 2 www.obsidians.org The Obsidian Bulletin OBITUARY Ewart Baldwin ~ 1915 - 2009 WART DIED ON MAY 2ND, 2009, two rection of the beds. weeks short of his 94th birthday, from E Ewart wrote many papers and books, the congestive heart failure and complications best known being his Geology of Oregon of aging. (1959), which he used as a textbook in some He was born May 17, 1915 to Augusta of his classes. Not having had enough of a and Charles Baldwin, the third of their four good thing, he taught geology after retire- children. He was born in a log cabin sur- ment from the U of O at Whitman College in rounded by a foot of snow in the foothills of Walla Walla for a year and a half. the Blue Mountains south of Pomeroy in southeastern Washington. He graduated Ewart and Margaret's passion was from high school in Pomeroy and attended travel. They went around the world many Washington State College where he re- times as tourists and also with Ewart work- ceived a BS and MS in geology. He worked ing as a professor on College Campus Afloat in his family's saw mill and as a copper ships. One of the things he loved about geol- miner while attending college in the west. In ogy was taking students on field trips. Ewart 1940, he headed out to Cornell University in corresponded with and heard from former Ithaca, New York, where he worked toward students all through his life. His favorite his PhD in geology. While at Cornell, chance brought him form of travel in later years was taking bus trips throughout together with Margaret Maxwell, an Oregon State graduate, the west with the Obsidians, telling fellow riders about the whom he had met briefly when both attended a church camp history, geography and geology of the scenes outside the bus on the Olympic Peninsula in 1938. They married in October windows. He was a good friend with a talent for connecting, of 1942 and Ewart received his PhD in geology and Margaret listening and remembering. He will be missed. His wife Mar- completed her work toward an MS in Home Economics. garet died in 2002. He is survived by his sons: Don (Verna) They returned to the west where Ewart took a job with the of Springfield and Neil (Rosemary) of Walnut Creek, and his State of Oregon Department of Geology in 1943, mapping grandsons: Alan of San Jose and McKenzie of Springfield. - the Coos Bay area coal resources to aid the war effort. He Register Guard, May 9, 2009. came to the University of Oregon in 1947, teaching a variety Ewart, “Chief Talking Rocks”, joined the Obsidians in of courses related to geology, including paleontology and 1968 and was a life member and president in 1977. He com- stratigraphy, until he retired in 1980. pleted 82 hikes, summitted 8 peaks, attended 8 summer His usual year included teaching three quarters at the U of camps and went on 132 bus trips. “Active on the Bus Trips O followed by a summer working for the United States Geo- Committee since 1972, he is one reason our trips are so spe- logic Survey, mapping the stratigraphy of southwestern Ore- cial,” says Liz Reanier, Bus Committee Chair.
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