Back to B.C. 2016

 I'm going to try something different and instead of taking you back to late fall hikes I've done here at home, I'm going to take you out to British Columbia, to Abbotsford specifically, where we visited our daughter.  The two trips out there are among my favourite memories.  First, an introduction to the Fraser Valley.

The Fraser Valley is the location of the big flood a few years back.  The farmland is flat and bumps up right against the mountains.  The Trans-Canada Highway cuts right across the photo in the lower third,

In places the flat farmland really does bump right up against the mountains!  These are blueberry bushes

Development all occurs on the mountains, as you can see.

These are the steps that let you get back up from the Clayburn Creek Trail.  They quickly became our favourite!  Sadly this trail was washed out in the floods  of 2021.  It's still not open.

The narrow valley harbours a Pacific rainforest, with complete walls of Sword Fern, and a thick layer of moss everywhere!