Inklin Gateway Trail

Trumpetor Swams

After Bryan returned from guiding a Moose hunter and we processed our portion of the kill we spent the next 3 weeks cleaning up the Inklin Gateway Trail and pushing it further. Somedays we would make an added 100 metres, somedays only 25 metres. Real hard work. This trail will be 7 kms when completed. Doesn't sound like much work but when you see this country.... ever foot is a hard one. Our lake is at 550 metres elevation and the Inklin River is at 240 metres elevation.... Also this is a mature forest with lots of blow down and bug kill, located in the Pacific Coast Mountain Range. The last week of trail making was sidehill, which meant placing large dead logs on the low side and grub hoeing duff and fill to level out a path. This was only a 400 metre section.... but it is finished now, just in time for the dump of 15" of snow we just got. The Cotton Wood trees are immense where we last were working, some 5 feet at the base.
It's November 1st..... NOW We start trapping!!!!!! We'll trap some muskrats and mink....then on Nov 12 start trapping Marten which is our main catch here. They seem to be prime then.