We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am.
Last week we drove up to the High Road and parked near the start of the hydro line going to the towers at the top. Taking the more gradual route up through the forest we took the right turn just before reaching the hydro line right of way and started on the George Lechner Memorial Trail. Part way up the steepest section of the zig-zag trail we saw a couple of clusters of the young flower spikes of the leafless Candystick, Allotropa virgata. This not particularly common saprophytic plant depends on dead and dying organic material in the soil for nutriants and has no leaves with chlorophyll like most other flowering plants. We sat for lunch at the viewpoint close to the BC Hydro compound at the base of their massive tower.
JD.
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