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[VicHockeyFan]

https://www.facebook.com/KludahkTrail/

 

 

WHY ALL THE SECRECY

 

Mainly for Protection of this resource.

 

The Club does not want this trail to end up like the West Coast Trail where heavy use has done extreme damage to the terrain and where there is a quota system and waiting list to get onto the trail.The Kludahk Trail is in a fragile bio diverse area that can not take the pressure of heavy use.
The good thing is that he location already prohibits heavy use. A high clearance vehicle is needed to get anywhere near most of the trail. The access roads are impassable throughout many months of the year when the snow cover is extensive and deep.The snow is not usually totally gone until well into June.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[VicHockeyFan]

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FEES FOR CABIN USE

 

The Ministry of Forests has set the price of an overnight stay in any Cabin at $15 per person per night.
The monies will be used for maintenance costs and cabin supplies such as propane.

The cabins are well appointed and comfortable. The have propane cook stoves ranges with ovens. Tables chairs and platforms and floors for sleeping on. there are guest books games axes firewood sinks and dishes and cutlery.They also have wood stoves and emergency food rations.

It is a good practice to leave something. The cabins are far enough form any roads (except for Tower) that vandalism is rare and unlikely.

The club which owns the structures have passive aggressive notes posted in the cabins which are meant to dissuade people from staying overnight with out booking in advance. However to book a cabin they require persons to be a member of their club. the Ministry of Forests however have notes in them saying that the cabins are on public property and that all are welcome and the places are to be respected and shared.There are locked secure donation boxes in each cabin that are secured to the walls. this is where overnight fees should be placed .

An example of a KOC note in a cabin would look like this......

 

Feel Free to use the cabin to warm up and have a snack but know that our club members could appear at any time of the day or even in the middle of the night using headlamps....blah blah blah

 

Here is what we would like to say about the situation

Respect the Cabins
Get along with each Other
Share the Cabins
Have Fun
Bring some Cash for the Donation Box
Do Improvements
Fix Something 
Leave Something
Chop some fire wood
Clean Up after yourselves
Be Mature
Don't be Rude
Don't Bully People
Don't damage anything
Use common sense

 

 

[G-Man]

If they are on public land then are open to all IMO.

[Mike K.]

Not exactly the Kludahk but I think you can access it via the reservoir? Anyways, a portion of the Sooke Hills Wilderness Trail Closure has closed due to a mudslide.

From the CRD:

Sooke Hills Wilderness Trail Closure

Jan 04, 2019

A section of the trail is CLOSED until further notice from Humpback Reservoir to the suspension bridge across the Goldstream River.

The southern section of the Sooke Hills Wilderness Trail (the Great Trail) is closed due to a mudslide. The closure is from Humpback Reservoir to the suspension bridge across the Goldstream River. The north section of trail from the Goldstream River to Goldstream Heights remains open at this time. Crews are assessing conditions, and more information will be released when available.