5 miles of hiking • 750' elevation gain •
Rode the bike out to Powell Butte this morning for a volunteer orientation about bird surveying at Powell Butte. Was shown the sites on where I would be surveying. Heard a pileated woodpecker in the stands of old trees on the SE slopes of the butte. Then, the family met me and we went out and did another loop. In the sun it was t-shirt weather...in January! I never knew one could see Mt. Jefferson from the summit! I'll be coming out to Powell Butte once a week for the next two months for the surveying starting in February.
