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Trail from Rushbrook to Seal Cove	Hundreds of trees down
	Snow on branches ‘casue’

Doesn’t look bad at first

Trial almost impassable

At either end of trail damage is minimal – but don’t be fooled

Some areas have to go into bush/ side of cliff to get around

Here are some photos but needs aerial view to grasp full extent of dmage

Still looks do-able

I met a couple fellows coming out – both advised me they had turned back as the trail was impassable – even dangerous

Still this did not look very bad

CN would have pruned these

In this stretch of trail most the downed trees were as shown here – relatively young (<25 years) trees with very shallow roots –

CN would have known these trees were vulnerable and would have kept them pruned or cut down at earlier stage

This stretch is impassable

This is where ‘sane’ people turn back

But note the trees to left --- there is still a way around by going off the trail --- the by-pass is steep in places and one could easily slide into water below as little to hold onto – still someone has marked the path with tape – a log boom area is below

the impassable stretch

Someone has marked a ‘by-pass’ trail --- note the log boom camp just below

And this is where getting ‘better’

Nature of trees differs at this end – larger and terrain not so steep

	Seal Cove side
	Some fellow had started to chain saw his way through --- but did not go much farther along then here

More analysis later	Views vs ‘Commons’
	Here is story from 2001 where the usual culprits were involved: people cutting trees to get better view and destabilizing slope – or here building deck

Created by LG on 4/10/2007

Last updated on Tuesday, April 10, 2007

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