This time 2 hikes were offered.
Crown Isle – Air Base Excursion was led by Dawn Moore, who reports:
In contrast to Bill’s climb-to-see-the-views hike, Dawn led a few group members on a neighbourhood meander through town streets and woody areas between the Crown Isle Subdivision and CFB Comox. The 7.5+/-km route was meant to take 2 hours, but our enthusiasm got the better of us and we were back within around 75 minutes. Oh well...the fast pace gave us the workout we were looking for. It was great to be chatting with friends once more and we found lots to comment on, including the different art projects scattered by forest trails along the way.
Crown Isle – Air Base Excursion was led by Dawn Moore, who reports:
In contrast to Bill’s climb-to-see-the-views hike, Dawn led a few group members on a neighbourhood meander through town streets and woody areas between the Crown Isle Subdivision and CFB Comox. The 7.5+/-km route was meant to take 2 hours, but our enthusiasm got the better of us and we were back within around 75 minutes. Oh well...the fast pace gave us the workout we were looking for. It was great to be chatting with friends once more and we found lots to comment on, including the different art projects scattered by forest trails along the way.
High Above Ramparts was led by Bill Boham:
This was a new route for the Hiking Group. We started from the Mt Washington Road near the Ramparts chain up area. We used logging roads to climb up to an elevation approximately even with mid way up the alpine chair lifts, a climb of almost 500 meters. The hike and the views were breathtaking in every sense of the word. As we started out most of the landscape below us was shrouded by low clouds. Gradually the clouds retreated. At various points along our route we could see up Discovery Passage well north of Campbell River, across to Desolation Sound, down the Straight of Georgia and back to the Glacier and Mt Albert Edward. We were well rewarded for your efforts.
Photos by the Steves (Ray and Hill)