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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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. Gabriola Sounder article: [...]
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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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I’m sure the Gabriola RCMP has a lost and found box, but this is the method I prefer: upon finding a lost thing in the woods, the finder hangs it on a tree. Next time you go by, you’ll see your glove, hat, or whatever waiting for you, right where you dropped it.
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This tree came down a while ago in the Gabriola woods, right across a path. It’s on the trail between the twisty antlers and the single antler. I thought I’d mention it here in case the tree-moving trail angels feel like doing something about it. Update, March 22nd: all sorted out! See, now it’s like [...]
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Gabriola’s spiral triskele puzzled a number of us last summer. Who made it, and why? In that blog post I showed you a photo of the triskele, and some of you added information about triskeles in the comments, and guesses about this one. But we were still left wondering about the Gabriola triskele. The mystery [...]
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I’ve been back and forth looking for the cable trailmarker, but it seems to have vanished altogether. Where’d it go? Did you take it? Or is it just that I am seriously disoriented?
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When Gabriola Land and Trails Trust volunteers have work parties, they don’t mess around. Here’s what they did yesterday afternoon: transformed a wickedly muddy section of trail into this. It’s a corduroy road – or, well, a corduroy walkway, anyway.
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This caught my eye, because it’s not typical of Gabriola. It’s a poinsettia leaf, floating in a stream in the middle of the woods. Hmm. How odd. You might remember that I found a poinsettia plant in the Gabriola forest last year, but it was dead when I came across it. I’ve had a feeling [...]
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Do you see the trail there, Gabriola? I don’t either, though we’re looking straight at it. But this is good, right? You wanted extra exercise and extra adventure. Tramping through snow piled on top of salal is just the ticket, and is far more fun than some silly routine at the gym. Extra points if [...]
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This stump in the Gabriola woods has come to life with salal hair and shocking white eyes. (See also: Gabriola’s forest monster and Cladonia creature.)
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