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Meeting The Challenge On The North Coast Trail
The North Coast Trail in Cape Scott Provincial Park on Vancouver Island is a hiking destination for those who are up to challenge, as well as wanting to see some of the most incredible ecosystems in Canada. It is challenging. Considering the attempts to settle the area, and the utter failures, we get an idea of how difficult living in the area can be. As a hiker, anyone who has bush-wacked through coastal forest knows how extremely difficult and dangerous it is. When the rain, hail, snow, and wind come, the weather becomes a new obstacle. Then, every corner around a tree could mean an encounter with a black bear, a cougar, or a wolf. But this is life in BC, and those who know it, love it and would not miss these challenges for anything. But it takes something to get out there and meet the challenge. I don't want to scare you away. I want to excite you and pique your curiosity. The challenges are well worth the rewards along the trail, and at the end.
What do you need to make it through this incredible hike? The first thing is a sense for adventure. The first time out on the trail means everything is unknown, even with a good guidebook. The overland trails are really only foot tracks through the hidden, fallen jumble of deadfall trees. The level areas are bog. On dry days, the boardwalks over the bogs can make for fast hiking, but on wet days, they are just like a kid's Slip-N-Slide. Any false step and down you go. Then there is the mud and puddles lined with spongy moss, calf deep. Mind you, the bogs are one of the most striking habitats on the hike. It is a very fragile environment and well worth the slower hiking to really look at the incredible plants beside the boardwalk. On the beach trails, the tides can drive you up the beach to the steeper slope, making it a lop-sided walk on the beach. Hiking through the forest with a 22 to 25 kg pack, up and over roots, trunks, and through streams only complicates the scene. The long stretch, called the Sutil Scramble can be very tiring at high tides, scrambling along the steep cobblestones at the top of the beach. The hope of seeing wolf tracks, bear tracks, eagles nests, and humpback whales just offshore drive you on to the next camp. The main challenge is over after Nissen Bight, as you enter the original Cape Scott Park area. Here, you can read about the challenges of the settlement attempts, walk along the long, sand beaches, and join the light keepers at Cape Scott Light Station for a cup of coffee (if they are not running low that day). These features of the hike awaken the sense for adventure, providing a draw to set that goal to hike the trail.
Knowing these difficulties lie ahead on the trail calls for courage. Getting up in the morning, getting packed up, and simply setting off, helps feed the courage to get back on the trail, meet the unknown scenes around the corners and over the hills. Knowing that most of the animals living in the park are solitary and shy helps to muster enough courage to move forward. Making sure your gear is up to the task helps with being brave enough to set up camp in the lonely campsites and walk right through the middle of the puddles, conserving energy for other activities at camp at night. Having some knowledge of the trail also brings courage to set off down the trail, knowing that at the end of the day, you will end up at the right destination. Hiking with a group is also great for courage building, and it is great to share the load and the experiences with someone else. Courage on the North Coast Trail is absolutely necessary, but it is easy to set yourself up to support that courage.
Along with the sense for adventure and courage, you need to make sure you exercise a bit of caution along the way. Understanding the risks and how to minimize them almost guarantees caution. Risks are everywhere. In our regular lives, we learn how to manage the risks we face each day. The process is the same out in the challenging wilderness environment. The more you understand, the better you can manage the risks by exercising caution. The terrain calls for caution in each step. The long days demand caution with managing your water and food intake to ensure you have enough energy not to get clumsy. The wild animals live among anyone who lives in BC, so finding out how to deal with encounters is easily taken care of beforehand. Caution with your level of warmth is a major challenge factor that can influence the whole trip. Learning how to manage your warmth and being cautious about wetness and warm clothing is essential. All of these things are necessary for packing up and heading out to the North Coast Trail.
Preparing for challenging hikes needs to be taken seriously. Researching about the trail helps understand the difficult aspects and ensures that some thought and planning have been done before setting out. Altogether, any hiker needs to find the challenges and meet them with a sense of adventure. The hiker needs to muster up the courage to get ready and go forward to meet the challenges, and caution needs to be exercised, based on knowing how to meet the challenges and risks on such a challenging but rewarding hike as the North Coast Trail.
About the Author
Gary Ward has been leading trips and teaching in wilderness areas for 20 years. Having travelled from desert to sea, he spends most of his time now in coastal areas, exploring the boundary between land and sea, land and sky, and sea and sky.
Gary can be found on one of these boundaries, running Coastal Bliss Adventures with his partner, Georgia Newsome, and writing about Beautiful BC.
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Hi i live in victoria bc canada, i am a childcare provider. and i have been taking care of this one girl who always comes to me in the same dirty clothes, only gets changed when i change her. when she is brought to me she always has an over ful diaper. and one time her dad brought her to me with dried up puke in her hair. also she is two and for some reason seems to be extremly aggressive with other kids, i'm talking hitting, grabbing by the shoulder and pulling the kid down of the couch, etc. my concern is that she is being neglected in a sense that her parents are not changing her or cleaning her . and i'm concerned that they may be aggressive towards or towards each other and that is where she is learned to be aggressive. please provide me with all info and ideas on what to do , and what you would do/
also they are still feeding her from the bottle, not that there is anything wrong with that, but the bottle the bring me is so gross. there are black dots at the bottom and it reaks.
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