Rain fails to thwart trail
builders at Exstew falls

CONTRIBUTED
ON SATURDAY, Sept. 29,
the Coast Mountain Group
of the Sierra Club built a
irail un the Exstew River.
But ao one expected it
would. happen that the

morning. ‘It was raining,’

raining heavily.

It kept raining through
breikfast with no break in
the clouds. It rained on the
way to the library where.
we were to meet at 8 a.m,

~*“Bach thought that there
would be few, .if any,
people there. We were all
wrong. By the time all had
gathered there were 12 -
seven from the club and

into the falls. As soon as
they disappeared around a
corner, another team star-
ted to build the first set of
steps. (An advance. crew
had collected: used railway
ties, cut them into thirds,
pre-drilled them and-cut
rebar to anchor them
down.)
The others strung out in
between, clearing the cut
brush, doing the pick and
shovel work to level the
trail, hauling gravel by the
bucket to fill in the low
spots and, always, making
more steps. Packing the
ties up the trail, digging a
bed for them, hammering

Maybe rain makes British Columbians
serious about the work they have to do.

five who came out he-
cause building a trail
seemed like an interesting
thing to do, even in the
rain.

So shovels and brush
hooks, matlocks and saws,
all the implements of trail
building, got: quickly
picked into the trucks and
off we went.

We were full of hope
that the sky would lighten
as we went down the
Skeena Valley. We were
WIONg again. -

Tt was still taining hea-
vily as we turned off the
highway onto the Exstew
logging road, and the rain
stayed with us as we tra-
velled the several kilo-
meters to where the falls
thundered down from the
mountain.

Maybe that was our sil-
ver lining. Maybe rain
makes British Columbians
serious about the work
they have to do. After all,
there is litthe comfort to
standing around petting
wet.

So one team formed and
began to brush out the trail

from the old logging toad

down the iron bars to keep
them in place, filling in
behind. Steps, always
more steps. ,

But by the end of the
motning the trail was
brushed all the way to the
falls. By the end of the day

Kathy, Kelly, Rob, Benoit,
Dieter, Rhena and Rob,
(yes, there were three

Robs), all weaving in and
out, all focusing on what
needed to be done, doing
it, moving on.

But the cold would
probably have crept into
our bones and slowed us 16
a standstil! long before we
finished if. it had not been
for Renee, working under a
tarp erected off the back af
her truck, heating chili and
making coffee.

No chuck wagon on the
lone prairie ever hada
more ‘appreciative - audi-
ence than the one that
gathered around her tail-
gate.

The truck is gone now
but the trail is there. It
isn’t finished but it will
take you to the falls in
camfort.

Drive towards Prince
Rupert. Turn right on the
logging road just before
the Exstew River. After 5
kilometers the road splits.

Take the right fork, (the
left crosses to the other

There is a harmony that often happens.
in volunteer work and it happened all
through that sodden day.

it was cleared, widened
and more than 30 steps
were in place.

There is a harmony that
often happens in volunteer
work and it happened all
through that sodden day.

Someone would finish
one job and, without direc-
tion, move on to the next.
One group would do a job
and then ‘disband to do
several more. No one had
to tell them what’ needed
doing.

When one person nee-
ded a hand, there was al-
ways someone to give il.
When a new job arose,
someone would do it.

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side of the river). At the
next fork, take the left so
as to stay close to the
tiver. (Go slow here be-
cause the road is rough
and a little washed cut)

You will come to a
small bridge and you can
park here and go up the
old logging spur ta the
tight. You will see the new
trail as you get near the
lop of this spur.

When you get to the
meadow at the falls,
please stay on the trail be-
cause if is easy to damage
the wild grasses (here.
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