Waterless Falls
Jack Sets Sail Sat Aug 14th Hopkins Landing in the morning haze Sun Aug 15th With Nick and Lizzie here it was going to be a busy weekend! Hikes to waterless waterfalls, paddleboarding on the Sechelt Inlet, more hikes and swimming - when I fell off the board. Saturday morning, while Lizzie ran to the top of Elphinstone Mountain (16k and 1200m elevation), the rest of us wandered up to Dakota Falls on Dakota Creek. It was the last day of the heatwave and around 30c, though we were in the shade of the forest some of the time it was still hot! As we neared the Falls we came across a huge Douglas Fir. Nick called it a 'mother tree'. You may remember a documentary on UK tv Calculated circumference of 7.5m about how larger trees support the growth of younger ones through a subsoil connection of roots that share carbon and nitrogen to aid younger tree growth. Much of the work was done by Dr Simard, of the University of British Columbia (UBC)...