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Wilderness:

 
 

Raising the Bar

 
 

Toquenatch Falls trailhead at Plummer Road off Craig Road (off Highway 101) at 0 mins.

 

Junction with old logging road (go right) at 1.7 mins.

 

Looking left on old logging road (go the other way)at 2 mins.

 

Junction at 3 mins

 

Junction with logging road at 3.5 mins

 

Quiet trail through the woods on an even road at 4.9 mins.

 

KM 26.5 marker at 6.4 mins

 

Overgrown Bridge over a culvert with earth walkway on left at 7.4 mins.

 

At bridge looking downstream at 8 mins.

 

An essential, but bring your own paper, and plan to carry out your garbage at 9.4 mins.

 

The trail on past the outhouse into the camping areas at 11.3 mins.

 

The log above head height, points to the first campsite at 11.8 mins.

 

Site one off on a spur to the left at 12.6 mins.

 

Site two further on at 13.1 mins.

 

Trail leading from the furthest campsite down to Toquenatch Creek at 14.7 mins.

 

Third site at 16.2 mins.

 

Another trail to the creek at 16.5 mins.

 

The Y entrance again, with the well concealed outhouse at 24.1 mins.

 

Onward as the trail turns right and up off the logging road at 29.7 mins.

 

Into the ferns across a wet area at 31.8 mins.

 

Turning left back toward the logging road at 32 mins.

 

Stepping down to slip across a muddy drainage creek at 35.1 mins.

 

Berry bushes work to cover the trail at 35.4 mins.

 

Duck through the bushes to get through at 37 mins.

 

Toquenatch Falls below at 39.2 mins.

 

White water is low this year at 40.5 mins.

 

Falls with bridge in background at 40.8 mins.

 

White water at 41.5 mins.

 

Moss hangs down off trees above the water at 42.3 mins.

 

Bridge to the exit road (which is off Southview Road become forestry road). The trail continues NOT across the bridge at 43.3 mins.

 

Onward to Homestead Campsite 2.1 km at 45.2 after a two minute break

 

Trail parallels above Toquenatch Creek at 45.6 mins.

 

KM 27 at 47.4 mins.

 

Recent clear cut (1999) leaves the trees with shallow roots vulnerable at 49.6 mins.

 

Many logs get cleared or passage cut through them to keep the trail reasonably open at 52.1 mins.

 

KM 27.5 at 55.1 mins.

 

Trail cuts through bramble bushes growing up on the edge of a recent (1999) clear cut at 56.9 mins.

 

Footbridge at 59.5 mins.

 

The SCT continues left at the Atrivedi Trail junction at 66.1 mins.

 

Trees growing from log bridge (a return trip for more photos) at 70 mins.

 

Trees grow out of the log which serves as the bridge over a small creek in this wet area at 69.8 mins.

 

Leaning on the tree on a tree of a bridge at 70.5 mins.

 

Small foot bridge at 73.4 mins.

 

A quiet place to sit, some water around, but no outhouse or reasonably suitable area to be, and little dry area for tenting at 73 mins.

 

Shallow roots exposed. The forest stands strong together, each tree is vulnerable by itself at 74.3 mins.

 

Toquenatch Fir Wildlife Tree at 75.3 mins.

 

Looking up the Toquenatch Fir Wildlife Tree at 77 mins.

 

KM 28.5 at 79 mins.

 

Sitka Spruce at 80.2 mins.

 

Sitka Spruce at 80.8 mins.

 

Trail emerges onto "the frontage road" at 86.3 mins.

 

Trail turns left to follow Southview Road across the bridge at 87.3 mins.

 
 

A campsite added just over a year ago, makes this section of the trail a very good candidate for overnighting, just down stream from the falls. The campsite is on a spur just past an outhouse well hidden on the left, just after crossing a sort of bridge where one has the choice of wood or dirt crossing. There must be a culvert underneath somewhere.

 

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