Spencer Butte, Early October, 2009

After Laura broke her arm, I drove down to Eugene to help out with the doctor's visit.  They put her arm in a cast, and told her she was good to go.  We thought it'd be nice to go for a hike, so we went to a city park with a 2,052' summit- Spencer Butte.  Laura's holding her poor arm:

The summit had lots of people on it, enjoying the views and scrambling around on the exposed bedrock.

There are great distant  views of Eugene down below.  Autzen Stadium is on the upper right side of town:

Here's a view facing south, into the final nooks and crannies of the Willamette Valley.  South of here much further and it's only mountains, till the Rogue and Umpqua Rivers' valleys.  

Here's another view of the summit near sunset:

Finally, heading back down to the car, we had nice views of evening light on the doug firs and oaks:

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