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Got back on Saturday night from a week long hike on the West Coast Trail here in British Columbia. Have to take the Ferry to the Island and then it's a 3 hour drive to the trail head. For those of you who haven't heard of it, it's the hardest trail in Canada and one of the toughest in all of North America. It's 77km's in length and we did North to South which is hard side to easier side. We did 41 of the 77km's in the last 3 days including 12km's in 2 hours on the last day
Mostly, this trail is compose of a few things.
Inland hiking: Hiking in the mountains away from the beach. This includes mud up to your knees (Gators are the best invention ever), climbing 40' high ladders and scaling incredibly huge logs with 15'+ drops underneath them. You have to use cable cars and in some cases ropes to cross broken bridges and other obstacles....and don't forget Bears, Cougars and Wolves
Beach hiking: Hiking along the beach...sounds easy right? Wrong...you're sinking in sand, stone and walking on algae covered bedrock for the most part. In fact, half of day 2 was spent traversing over a beach of boulders each half the size of your car that were wet from rain...throw in massive amounts of stray tree trunks (thrown up by storms) and you have a very dangerous day to be sure. You have to KNOW the tide schedules to beach hike or you'll get stranded, forced inland or worse, swept away and killed (it's happened lots of times). You (in some cases) have to jump surge channels which is down right frightning!
I should also mention that it rained pretty much everyday we were gone so that just makes this trail several times more gruling...compound that with the fact that it just opened and the maintenance crews were only half finished and you can start to imagine what it was like..lol.
One of the coolest things was that ALL of our campsites were on the beach. The only thing that was a little nerve racking was not knowing how far the tide would creep up on you so most of us would stay awake until high tide just to be sure. There was only one night we had to move some tents from the water...hehe.
Anyway...here are some pics that we have so far. There were 11 in our group.
First of all..my damn pack is an 80L excursion pack...when I weighed it, it came to 65lbs!!! This thing never really got any lighter as you wind up subbing out food for wet clothes..lol
my buddy Nam. His g.f had our camera for a few days so he wound up in a lot of shots..lol
log bridge
my g.f trudging through mud.
You can see that some ladders go in sections...climb 10' - 15' then hit a platform, then the next 15' ladder..hehe
my friend Nam on a log crossing
suspension bridge
tide from the campsite
I know this pic is HUGE but it gives a good idea of how massive some of the logs are that were thrown up on shore by the storms....insane.
Beach Hiking
Sea Lions....taken by sticking my camera into Nam's telescope..lol
One of the last wooden lighthouses in Canada
my friend Cam
My friend Peter. Nothing like making camp in the driftwood..hehe
The only nice day we had and thankfully we had a waterfall next to our site...so we all took turns jumping in. After a 17km day this makes you feel incredible
Nam bowing to the Sea Gods..lol
This is a Surge Channel...wanna jump?
While some of us went Inland...Heather and Pete chose to walk the bedrock...slow moving.
view from camp (night 3)
warming up and TRYING to dry clothes.
It's somewhat customary to find a buoy on the beach, carv it up and leave it at your last campsite to mark the completion of the trail. So I did one up for Jenny and I on the last night..
The hike concluded with a 3 hour bus ride back to the trailhead on a damn Logging Road...holy shit that was a rough ride..lol.
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Great pics, except for the one where your friend is bowing for the sea gods, that looked a little questionable and I'm sure someone might call you out for it.
Hope you had fun, I'm actually planning a hike for some of North GA's mountains in Oct.
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nice stuff mike...looks fun...too bad ontario is lame and the only hiking i will be doing is to my car after work and the only obstacles i face are the homeless begging for money....
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How safe was the trail though? Were there spots where you could seriously hurt yourself if not careful?
80% of that whole trail is hazerdous....no joke, I coulda been quite literally killed a few times but all in all you have to be cautious the whole time.
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That's unreal, beautiful part of BC.
See any wildlife?
no...just bear shit everywhere..lol.
well, we saw Wales from one of our campsites though
Mike, awsome experience! I must say i've taken a liking to hiking myself. the last place I went was to Algonquin Park here in Ontario, the hike was 3 hours, then time to set up camp. But nothing like the 7 day hike you partook on. Next time Sheena and myself get out to BC I'd like to see some of these trails! Awsome pictures, I really miss that scenery, and the smell of the ocean. Can't wait to get to the West Coast again!
Pics from my 7 day hike on the Coast 
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jen is the coolest hoe in this bish! haha 
Nice pics, happy you enjoyed 
