Some of them do, anyway. A reader sent this photo of a tree in the Gabriola forest. Have you seen it? (See also: Eyes in the Gabriola forest, Gabriola forest monster, and Cladonia creature.)
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Oh my, the trailmarkers and decorations we find in the Gabriola woods. First there were the antlers on trees. Oh, and the birdhouses, and the odd one-off thing like the monster mask. Now there’s this thing, high enough up a tree that somebody must have used a ladder to mount it. Hmm, same mounting style [...]
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When official trailmarkers (like these plastic diamonds) go up on Gabriola trees, they often seem to vanish soon afterwards. Yet unofficial trailmarkers, like this beer can, (and these beery trailmarkers) seem to remain in place for years – pretty much until a tree falls over and takes the can with it. Perhaps it’s because the [...]
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I’d still love to know the story behind the numbered trees in the Gabriola forest. First I found tree number two, then tree number three. Here’s tree number eight. Go figure!
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I did show you the clothes dryer in the forest, back in 2009. For the last couple of years it’s been adorned with a skull, which rests atop what is probably the lint catcher.
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If you start out at the south end of the Gabriola Commons and you’re heading for the Gabriola Elementary School or the Rollo Centre, there’s a trail just for you. Did y’all already know this? I didn’t. I thought the only way was through the Gabriola Commons’ property. But no, there’s a trail just on [...]
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For a while we’ve noticed that a side-trail has been developing in the woods. It’s clear this thing is getting some traffic, but why, and from whom? It doesn’t seem to go anywhere, just over a log and a short ways into the salal. Puzzling. Yesterday we had some extra time, so snooped around a [...]
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This is from the Bowen Island Undercurrent: Bowen’s newest nature reserve is in danger. Some days ago, members of the Bowen Island Conservancy and a representative of the Islands Trust Fund, the two parties which will manage the new nature reserve for Bowen, noticed that the use of ATVs and other four-by-four vehicles has resulted [...]
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It’s been a while since we walked through the Elder Cedars, but we did go there today. And look: in the massive puddle-becomes-ocean place at the far (from Village) end, there’s this! Is it new? Did GaLTT do it?
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When a tree falls down across the trail, what happens to the tree? If the trail is narrow, obscure, and out-of-the-way, the answer used to be nothing. Any hikers would just step over the log (or climb, if a big log) and that was that. It’s changed since some industrious mountain bikers have arrived on [...]
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Unusual things turn up in the Gabriola forest, as you know if you’ve been following Gabriolan.ca long enough to see the various trailmarker blog posts. I showed you one glass skull, but a generous and talented Gabriola photographer has now sent along (much better) photos of two more glass skulls that have appeared in the [...]
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Gabriola’s first trail licence agreement was signed a couple of weeks ago. Now another trail is about to be licenced! GaLTT says: Less than a week later at their Strategic Planning Workshop, GaLTT announced the imminent signing of our second trail licence (still in the lawyers’ offices!), this time with landowner Sally Robinson. The public [...]
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If you care about trails and trail access on Gabriola, you’ll know about GaLTT. They are the Gabriola Land and Trails Trust, and here’s what they’ve been up to since 2004 (according to their website): We are close to completing our drive for public-access trails from Drumbeg to Descanso, and our work breaking new trails [...]
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Here’s some great news for Gabriola trail users from GaLTT: Tuesday, October 18 at 1pm, GaLTT will sign its first trail licence agreement GaLTT will celebrate the signing of its first trail licence agreement, allowing public access on a trail through privately held forest land off Barrett Road. GaLTT and the Cornish family will sign [...]
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If you hike in the Gabriola woods, you might see a number of faces… but who would expect this one? Yet there it is, just off the trail, waiting to give hikers something to wonder about. I don’t know what it is, but was amused that my camera’s facial recognition software immediately classified this as [...]
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Gabriola’s 707 Acre Community Park will have official trailmarkers soon. People who are in charge of safety-related things on Gabriola say we need them, and the Gabriola Parks and Open Spaces Advisory Committee has come up with trail names to put on the signs. (Flying Shingle article: Parks committee proposes trail names. The Gabriola Sounder [...]
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Back in January, I blogged about Gabriola’s corduroy walkway. If you walked it then and found it tippy, you might be pleased to see that the wood is much more stable now that rock has been added.
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Say you have property on Gabriola, and a neighbourhood trail runs through it. What to do? Perhaps you’d like to let people wander along that trail. Maybe your trail provides access to the beach or forest for neighbours who would have to take huge detours to get to those places if not for your handy [...]
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