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Canada | West Coast Trail

54 images Created 5 Oct 2012

Fog, fun, and new friends backpacking the very social West Coast Trail on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

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  • Henry navigates a tangle of blowdown trees along the West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Henry climbs the roots of a fallen tree along the West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Zach Podell-Eberhardt (left) and Henry hike through a damp, misty forest along the West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis) fill the forest understory along the West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Carved foam buoys hang from a tree at Michigan Creek camp, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Henry does pull ups from a tree branch on the beach as Zach Podell-Eberhardt watches, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Hikers walk on the beach along the West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Henry cools off under a small waterfall along the West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Henry hikes on a boardwalk past a derelict donkey engine and logging grader, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Henry drops his head into a bedrock pothole to cool off along the West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Zach Podell-Eberhardt throws himself under the spray of Tsusiat Falls, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Natural arch (Hole in the Wall) and exposed bedrock at dusk, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Henry (left) and Zach Podell-Eberhardt watch the sunset from a beach on the West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Rocky coastline at dusk, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Ships in the Pacific Ocean illuminate the horizon at night, seen from the West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Tsusiat Falls at night, spilling onto the beach along the West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Ethan Welty stands facing Tsusiat Falls at night, spilling onto the beach along the West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • A hiker bathes under Tsusiat Falls, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Henry (pitcher) and Zach Podell-Eberhardt (batter) play baseball with driftwood on Tsusiat Beach, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Hikers socialize at camp on Tsusiat Beach, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Hikers keep warm by a campfire at dusk on Tsusiat Beach, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Zach Podell-Eberhardt looks out over the Pacific Ocean from the top of Tsusiat Falls, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Zach Podell-Eberhardt (left) and Henry explore sea caves and arches at Tsuquadra Point, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Mussels and gooseneck barnacles (Pollicipes polymerus) at Tsuquadra Point, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Gooseneck barnacles (Pollicipes polymerus) at Tsuquadra Point, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Henry (left) and Zach Podell-Eberhardt ride the ferry across the Nitinat Narrows, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Hikers relax and lunch at the Nitinat Narrows ferry station, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • A Pacific banana slug (Ariolimax columbianus) inspects trekking poles piled in the grass on the West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Henry (left) and Zach Podell-Eberhardt negotiate an "impassable" headland near Dare Point, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Henry (left) and Zach Podell-Eberhardt sit against a giant driftwood log sipping hot tea on a beach along the West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Hikers on a beach in the mist near Bonilla Point, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Seagulls fly low over the water along the West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Sea stacks topped with trees near Bonilla Point, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Boulders on the striated bedrock surface of the continental shelf near Bonilla Point, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Henry (left) and Zach Podell-Eberhardt search tide pools for life near Bonilla Point, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Zach Podell-Eberhardt (left) and Henry hike through shallow water on the continental shelf in the mist near Bonilla Point, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Strange boulders on continental shelf bedrock, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Henry (left) and Zach Podell-Eberhardt hike past large driftwood on a beach along the West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Henry (front) and Zach Podell-Eberhardt cross the suspension footbridge across Logan Creek, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Rounded cobbles, shaped by wave action, pave the beach at Cullite Cove, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • A tall stone cairn on the beach at Cullite Cove, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Zach Podell-Eberhard (left) and Henry show their exhaustion tackling a particularly difficult, muddy portion of the West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Henry pulls himself across Camper Creek by cable car, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Hikers travel on the exposed continental shelf near Owen Point, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Hikers traverse a wave eroded bedrock bench in the continental shelf near Owen Point, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Zach Podell-Eberhard (left) and Henry approach Kellet Rock, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Hikers crowd onto the narrow beach campsite at Thrasher Cove, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • A man sits besides a campfire on the beach at Thrasher Cove, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Hikers do morning yoga on the beach at Thrasher Cove, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Henry stands inside a tent to dry it out at Thrasher Cove, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Zach Podell-Eberhard (right) and Henry hike through a forest shrouded in mist along the West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Zach Podell-Eberhard (top) and Henry climb a ladder along the West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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  • Henry is picked up by ferry at the Gordon River, reaching the end of the trail at Port Renfrew, West Coast Trail, British Columbia, Canada.
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