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Wilderness:

 
 

Raising the Bar

 
 

KM 6 as the ascent up the Knob is still ahead at 193.6 mins.

 

Descending from 105 metres after cresting just beyond 6 KM at 195.4 mins.

 

A short break to treat a persistent blister left from a previous hike and poor moleskin at 204.8 mins.

 

Break over, moving on at 225.6 mins.

 

past a few old ones at 227 mins.

 

Now the climb begins past these interesting growths at 228.1 mins.

 

The wood, the arbutus, the large ones at 230.8 mins.

 

Light on the lens colours the dance at 231.4 mins.

 

The "Dancing Arbutus" at 232.6 mins.

 

A knarly old one behind a younger one at 245.6 mins.

 

A small pond of water off to the left which is bigger than it first appears at 246.7 mins.

 

The steady climb brings the trail to the base of the Knob at 259.5 mins.

 

The first view from the climb to the top of the Knob at 260.6 mins.

 

Hinder Lake 2.3 km Sarah Point 7.0 km (though we past the 7 KM sign a while back) One can climb up to the top of The Knob, which offers a few places to sit on rocks and eat, but the best view is right here at 261.4 mins.

 

Views down Okeover Inlet from The Knob at 262.2 mins.

 

My lunch spot with a view at 262.6 mins.

 

Looking in the direction the trail will follow at 263 mins.

 

Looking further to the Southwest at 263.3 mins.

 

Arbutus on sky, as I leave from a 38 minute lunch at 301.1 mins.

 

The trail quickly descends over a rocky switchback down from The Knob's 140 metre at 303 mins.

 

Km 8 in the quiet and cool of the wood on the descent at 310.5 mins.

 

Approaching the roadbed at 314.4 mins.

 

Looking back at the sign back to Sarah Point at 315.2 mins.

 

Looking across the road the sign reads SCT at 315.7 mins.

 

A water supply line runs down this creek which the trail crosses on this somewhat leveled log at 316.5 mins.

 

A huge cedar with its core burned out, as if it grew up around an old burned out stump at 318.7 mins.

 

This bark has a bite to it at 330.7 mins.

 

After a few steps up and mostly a descent the trail starts to offer filtered views of Okeover Inlet at 338.4 mins.

 

An open area on the descent with beautiful arbutus trees twisting their way upward against the few clouds in the blue sky at 339.8 mins.

 

Views of Cocrane Islands at 340.4 mins.

 

Views of Cocrane Islands at 341.3 mins.

 

A floating house at 342.1 mins.

 

An oddly formed arbutus grows out of a split base at 343.3 mins.

 

KM 9 in the woods at 345.5 mins.

 

Arrival at a creek near the ocean at 348.8 mins.

 

Downstream to Cochrane Bay 100 m Wednesday Lake 2.9 km right across stream at 349.7 mins.

 

One tenting spot of the two or three at Cochrane Bay (no outhouse evident) at 350.7 mins.

 

Another not so smooth possible tenting spot across the stream toward the point at 351.3 mins.

 

Cochrane Bay, the series at 353.1 mins.

 

Cochrane Bay, the series at 353.4 mins.

 

Cochrane Bay, the series at 353.7 mins.

 

Cochrane Bay, the series at 354 mins.

 

Cochrane Bay, the series at 354.3 mins.

 

Clear water at Cochrane Bay at 356.5 mins.

 

A barge moving working equipment up Okeover Inlet at 358.7 mins.

 

The cedar where the fresh water spills out into the open and then into the ocean and at the entrance from the trail into Cochrane Bay proper (not the point) at 361.1 mins.

 

Back at the sign and moving on toward Wednesday Lake at 362.8 mins.

 

An interesting hallowed out log would provide a dry place to sit in an emergency at 363.5 mins.

 

Cochrane Bay picnic site a few metres further on the trail at 364.4 mins.

 

A footbridge crossing a stream as the trail has climbed and descended at 370.5 mins.

 

.5 KM offers this view toward the ocean at 372.2 mins.

 

A fork in the trail, left down to the inlet and left up to Wednesday Lake at 375.4 mins.

 

The trail climbs past young trees intersperced with very old trees at 380.3 mins.

 

KM 10 with typical large stump on left and medium trees around at 383.5 mins.

 

The trail meets an old logging roadbed and turns left up the logging roadbed at 385.5 mins.

 

The trail leaves the logging road onto a trail to the left at 390.7 mins.

 

Open green ferns under the canopy at 392.5 mins.

 

KM 10.5 in the quiet at the woods having completed a climb the trail starts to descend at 395.6 mins.

 

To the right Lion Road and straight ahead is a sign for Wednesday Lake at 401.3 mins.

 

Creek straight ahead the trail takes a sharp left to follow the creek down for a ways at 405.1 mins.

 

A short jog down creek and then a turn right to the 11 KM sign and then the creek crossing at 406.2 mins.

 

The steep ascent begins at 410.7 mins.

 

A bit of level before the trail begins a more gentle ascent at 413.6 mins.

 

Crested the trail begins downward at 417.5 mins.

 

11.5 KM on the descent at 420.2 mins.

 

The ascent starts and then steepens as it approaches Wednesday Lake at 422.7 mins.

 

A look in through the non-existant door of the rough outhouse at Wednesday Lake. There are two shakes to serve as the seat cover at 431.4 mins.

 

The view out the outhouse door, the mountain side serves as a privacy block at 432.1 mins.

 

A tenting spot with ground deep enough for stakes between the outhouse and the lake at 433.2 mins.

 

Cochrane Bay 2.4 km Sarah Point 11.4 on a sign looking back ... at 434.2 mins.

 

And a sign from the same spot looking further on the trail reads 12 KM with one of the first glimpses of water on Wednesday Lake at 434.6 mins.

 

The trail spur descends to the right down to the picnic area, with a bench dedicated to Ann 1934 - 2000 (Gustofson I am told) at 436.9 mins.

 

Opposite the trail down to the picnic area the trail ascends to this tenting area, with little ground for stakes at 438.5 mins.

 

The pack at rest on the bench for Ann at 441.9 mins.

 

Wednesday Lake, the series at 453 mins.

 

Wednesday Lake, the series at 453.3 mins.

 

Wednesday Lake, the series at 453.7 mins.

 

Wednesday Lake, the series at 454 mins.

 

Wednesday Lake, the series at 454.3 mins.

 

Wednesday Lake, the series at 454.6 mins.

 
 

Making a later start and camping at either Wednesday Lake or Cochrane Bay would provide rewarding experiences. I found the few visitors at Wednesday Lake, from the research group staying just down the road, to be great company, filling in the extra time left after swimming and setting up camp early in the afternoon. They were pulling off terrible night and day shifts, setting their Circadian Rhythmes out of whack, while studying the habitat of the endangered warble marlett. (Let me know if that needs correcting, since this is all from verbal reports.)

 

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