We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am
On Thursday we had a special day long hike to the upper part of the South Texada Provincial Park. The weather was excellent, not too hot, but quite dry and sunny and we were able to do some important trail maintenance on our way up to Cathedral Lake. We also did some branch trimming on the side trail to the viewpoint at Pentstemon Point, but we decided to save the Dome Rock and Mt. Shepherd trail maintenance for another day. For several of the hikers this was their first visit to this exceptionally rugged and beautiful part of Texada.
Last week we hiked along the gas line to the west of Bobs Lake and then around the south side of the lake and up to the top of Mt. Flicker on the east side of the lake. My photo this week is of a small fireweed plant growing beside the road not far from Bobs Lake. It's not often a fireweed plant in flower is seen on Texada as the local deer are so fond of it the seedlings seldom survive long enough to reach flowering size. When tall flowering fireweed plants are seen they are invariably on top of old tree stumps or on cliffs where the deer are unable to browse them.
JD.
A young fireweed in flower beside a road near Bobs Lake.
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