Lakeview Park Shoreline Trail (Lake Cowichan) - Retreads
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 3.36 mi
- Elevation gain
- 440 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 440 ft
- Max elevation
- 817 ft
- TrailRank
- 64
- Min elevation
- 817 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- one hour 49 minutes
- Time
- 2 hours 46 minutes
- Coordinates
- 982
- Uploaded
- July 4, 2019
- Recorded
- July 2019
near Lake Cowichan, British Columbia (Canada)
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Itinerary description
This is a nice forest walk. Not strenuous, but with lots of small hills.
This was one of the first areas on the Lake where timber was harvested. Vestiges of the original forest still exist in the form of many large stumps, some have become "nurse trees" and bear the marks where "springboards" were inserted to aid the fallers.
The forest has again been harvested and the trail takes you through a recent clearcut. A huge wind storm hit the area in Dec. 2018 and there is evidence of that in blown down or snapped off trees.
The hike takes a diversion down to a pebble beach on the lake, offering good swimming or you can wait until you reach the sand beach at Lakeside Park.
Finally, the last segment of the hike is along a floating boardwalk which offers splendid views of the south arm of the Lake and the mountains on the north shore.
The Retreads Hiking Club gives this hike an AVA rating of 2 C.
Looking for a hike in the Cowichan Valley? Or, looking for hiking companions? Google "Retreads Hiking Club CVRD".
This was one of the first areas on the Lake where timber was harvested. Vestiges of the original forest still exist in the form of many large stumps, some have become "nurse trees" and bear the marks where "springboards" were inserted to aid the fallers.
The forest has again been harvested and the trail takes you through a recent clearcut. A huge wind storm hit the area in Dec. 2018 and there is evidence of that in blown down or snapped off trees.
The hike takes a diversion down to a pebble beach on the lake, offering good swimming or you can wait until you reach the sand beach at Lakeside Park.
Finally, the last segment of the hike is along a floating boardwalk which offers splendid views of the south arm of the Lake and the mountains on the north shore.
The Retreads Hiking Club gives this hike an AVA rating of 2 C.
Looking for a hike in the Cowichan Valley? Or, looking for hiking companions? Google "Retreads Hiking Club CVRD".
Waypoints
Car park
Information point
Intersection
Tree
676 ft
A fallen giant!
This huge fallen tree is slowly returning its stored energy to the surrounding forest
Beach
Photo
577 ft
An example of old logging practice
The holes were for "springboards". Fallers would stand on these to cut down the tree.
Bridge
Panorama
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