West Coast Trail:

Paul and Wayne

Dale and Myself

These were taken at the Bamfield trail head. This was the driest we'd be for 4 days. Little did we know that the rain we were greated with would soon turn into the worst storm to hit the West coast in 40 years.
We toughed it out and despite ladders and cable cars being knocked out, and the camp spot at Tusiat falls being knocked of the map we completed the entire trail from North to South in 7 days.

This boardwalk at the start of the trail probably makes for some nice walking in good weather but in the rain and wind it's terrible. We spent a good portion of the day picking each other up from the forest floor. Paul is in the foreground, I'm in the middle waiting for Dale. I'm resting on the nice piece of Bamboo that we found on the beach. I now never hike without that stick. The piece that we found was so long it made 3 sticks but the third was left behind for another lucky hiker to find.

This is our first night on the trail, we stopped at Darling creek, the storm was not yet at it's strongest.