Anodyne
Thursday, November 18, 2004
 

A few mental health days off.

Yesterday, a 13km hike from Deep Cove to the Lynn Canyon suspension bridge and the bus back to Lonsdale Quay. Sunshine for the first hour, relentlessly switchbacking up to a granite bluff above Deep Cove and Indian River Drive, growing steadily more overcast as the day went on. Clabbered sky. Rosy russula emeticas in the duff on the forest floor, and orangey-yellow woolly pine spikes, which I mistook at first for winter chanterelles. Steep descent down the western slopes of Mount Seymour, then across the little-known Seymour River canyon on the pipeline bridge, churning green-white water below, spray lifting up the sides of the cliffs. Precarious ferns! Up the world's steepest set of stairs to the Demonstration Forest access road, then down again to Lynn Creek. A fogbank drifting right above the canyon, which I sank down through approaching creek level, feet first, sweaty torso next, and finally bald and sweaty head.

- posted by cjb @ 9:22 AM


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