Making our trails official

By Peter Scholefield

To help the Conservancy update its Gambier Island trail map, Conservancy director, Tim Turner, offered to take GPS readings on many of the Gambier Island trails and routes that he is familiar with.

Tim had borrowed, for the weekend and on a sunny Saturday in April we hiked from the Brigade Bay Marina on the path leading to the Sea Ranch to arrive at the marked trailhead to Burt's Bluff.

After GPS readings are made It is a long bureaucratic process to have trails on Public land registered. This involves several months of paperwork involving agency referrals and consultation with the Squamish Nation and the local Gambier Island community.

This formalization and registration of trails on Gambier's Crown land and the creation of a new trail through Sir Thomas Lipton Park will be a major project for us for this next year and perhaps longer.