"Planting a tree is an act of faith little short of creation, and it projects a man’s hold upon the earth for as far beyond death as his imagination can reach.
Roderick Haig-Brown, from Measure of the Year, 1950
Amisty drizzle cloaks branches leaning above the riverbank; a mallard scuds near shoreline rocks that glisten a mossy green. A wooden footbridge crosses Kingfisher Creek where the leaves of fall are swept into the chattering Campbell River. A spawned-out chum salmon lies in the middle of the trail, not far from a sign reading “BEAR IN AREA.”
This forest trail is located at Above Tide, once the home of revered
