Dover Trail - Heather's Choice June 2, 2012

Heather who is leaving soon chose a Moresby Island hike as one of her last ones with the group ... so with a couple of other hikers who hadn't done this one before ... off we headed on the 10:00 ferry and drove to Haans Creek pull-out. The weather looked ok with the possibility of a shower but we knew we would be in deep forest ... so no problem.

Walking along the western side of the creek, remains as beautiful as ever as, we hear the creek and see the lush ferns. The bridge over the creek has improved over the years .. no longer nearly a scary as it once was ... thank you to the people maintaining it ... very lucky that the large upended spruce missed taking out the eastern approach.

We chose the western route, so it took us a bit over an hour to get the geo-zone as we were also geocaching. The trail keepers have done a great job flagging the many detours around around the fallen trees. When we had stopped for a snack ... along came a young local ... which was great as her father had been one of the original trail builders. She also gave us a new trail Alliford Bay way ... that is always great news to us!

The dappled sunlight on this trail really highlighted the many massive tress as well as the CMTs, culturally modified trees ... some test holes and bark collecting.

A good hike and we are sorry that Heather is leaving but we do expect to see her back. We also extend thanks to Remi and Mark for putting in this fine trail and to all those who work to keep it well marked and  open. We enjoyed it.