 The nortern part of that trail was traversed by members of the Sargeant Bay Society in 1993 and built the next year by the Forest Service’s Initial Fire Attack crew. The SBS crew that built the Triangle Lake trail built the southern section within the park as well as the the board walk at the connection with the Triangle Lake Trail. In subsequent years a group of mountain bikers, called SPORT (Sechelt Peninsula Off-Road Trailbuilders) built the network of trails to the west. These trails are mostly on old logging roads and were built for mountain bikers, but also provide good hiking. The Forest District provided signs for all the trails, which were installed by SPORT in 1999.  Every year a population of Pacific
Treefrogs lay their eggs in a puddle on a branch of the trail in the
1983 clearcut. After most of the tadpoles survive the mountain bikers
that dash through the puddle, tragically, they all die when the puddle
dries up in the summer. In the spring of 2003 a group of Scouts from Gibsons dug a pond downstream of the trail to provide a more permanent habitat for the tadpoles. Alas, the pond did not hold water either. It seems that the only hope for the tadpoles is to collect the egg masses and transfer them to a more permanent pond. |