Nature Notes from Paradise Meadows

Nature Notes from the Strathcona Wilderness Institute at Paradise Meadows & Buttle Lake, Strathcona Provincial Park

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Above the Clouds

An outing today up  Mt. Washington, adjacent to Paradise Meadows & Strathcona Park, to find blue sky above the clouds that covered the Comox Valley. Fresh snow is at about 1400 m.
From the top of the ski hill, you can see all your favourite peaks. Mt. Albert Edward & Mt Regan, with an interesting snow-covered ridge between - not visible from lower viewpoints.


Comox Glacier with Battleship Lake in the foreground

The Golden Hinde, highest mountain on Vancouver Island at 2200 m.

Sooty Grouse prints in the sub-alpine

Martin also preferred the trails, leaving prints

Striking view down into Paradise Ponds, circled by the Centennial boardwalk.


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