8/1/2023 0 Comments Corvallis to ona beach![]() Volunteers say the first 35 miles of the trail will open to the public this summer, barring no further obstacles - and the barriers have been high in number, from shifting government regulations to lengthy permit application processes.Īlthough she’s soon moving to Colorado to be with her family, Nervik currently serves as vice president of the C2C Partnership, a collaborative effort between a range of businesses, individuals and organizations with one goal: to make the C2C trail happen. It’s a 65-mile trek over diverse terrain through the Oregon Coast Range along a lush forest hiking path, some of which Nervik helped build. ![]() ![]() Nervik, who is in her late 70s, has hiked the trail in its entirety, although it’s not yet open to the public. The C2C trail started as a lofty dream more than 40 years ago, and for the past decade, a dedicated group of volunteers has led the charge to create the hiking trail, which starts at the Benton County Fairgrounds in Corvallis and ends at Ona Beach, near Newport. Her prediction was right: With fellow volunteers, Nervik has worked for the past 14 years to organize and build the Corvallis to the Sea (C2C) hiking trail. “I said to myself, ‘Now I know what I’m going to do here in Corvallis! I’m going to work on trails.’” “I was walking up in my boots and found that I was sinking into the muck up to the boot tops,” she says. Hikers traverse a portion of the C2C trailĭenise Nervik leans back in her chair and smiles as she recalls hiking Bald Hill in 1993, when she first moved to Corvallis.
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