The trees are a couple of steps off Lassie’s Trail (see this previous post about hiking Mount Erskine).
Yesterday on the Pacific Circle Highway
1:00 pm on the Pacific Circle Highway just before it was closed to traffic. And just before I turned tail for Salt Spring Island…
A 135 hectare fire 1 kilometre from Lizard Lake (27 kilometres SW of Cowichan Lake) was discovered Wednesday and the highway was closed to traffic. Here’s the BC Wildfire Service link for updated info. This is a suspected human-caused fire. Argh.
Now that’s a Hiking Trail!
Really, really big trees. You have to walk among them to understand why so many people are fans of preserving the remaining first growth forests. These Douglas Fir giants, some over 400 years old survived one of BC’s largest ever forest fires, way back in 1938. It’s astonishing to see a massive Cedar beside one of the old Douglas firs and realize the Cedar has grown since the big fire.
By the way this is one of the trails in the day use area of Elk Falls Provincial Park, just outside Campbell River on Vancouver Island. There’s a view of Moose Falls from this point. There are three falls in the series, Moose, Deer and Elk. (vaguely similar to BC Ferries’ new ferry naming system…)
Stay tuned, more on Elk Falls coming tomorrow.
Wildfire Smoke seen from Mount Erskine Summit
North towards Nanaimo
A tinder dry hike to the Mount Erskine summit reveals the extensive wildfire smoke in the air.
South West toward Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island
* bonus update
Here’s a view of the sun from the ‘clothesline observation platform’ at our house. This is the Sun through some Arbutus branches. I’ve not seen the sky and sun like this. Very smoky up the mountain where we live. Lots of haze down at ocean level, but no smoke smell there tonight.
Forest Treasure
Strange as it seems I was in this forest on business when I stumbled upon this surprise.
Anyone know the make, model, year?
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