Last year marked another pivotal year for the Cowichan Lake Trail Blazer Society as we continued with our mission to create and maintain trails for hikers and mountain bikers in the Cowichan Lake area. Let’s explore some of the progress we made.
Amazing how another successful year has passed for the Cowichan Lake Trail Blazers Society. Next week we are celebrating and meeting you all for the Annual General Meeting:
We hope many of you are planning to drop by already, and if you are still in doubt, following are a few further reasons:
We are all looking forward to see you there.
In the last couple of months our work on the Beaver Creek trail has really made a huge impact. Two beautiful bridges, a rest place with a bench for Salmon viewing and widened trails all the way through can now be enjoyed by everyone.
To celebrate a team from CTV came by and interviewed Bob, Julia, and Fred. Check it out at on the CTV community new section for the 18th of October 2023.
Last Sunday, the 11th of June 2023, the Cowichan Lake Trail Blazer Society (CLTBS) held the inaugural Fairserviice Fun Festival 2023. We celebrated the culmination of six years of dedicated work with a grand opening of the Fairservice Fun trail network. Over 100 cyclists, hikers, community leaders, volunteers, and supporters turned out on a sunny Sunday morning to explore the new trails.
Trails are networking through the woods, signposts are standing tall and soon will be displaying all of our colourful way-finding signs. It’s time to celebrate our new Fair Service Fun trail system! Soon, hikers and bikers from near and far can experience world-class trails, right in our own backyard.
Join us on Sunday, June 11 at 10 am to help us cut the ribbon to officially open our trail network. Cowichan Lake’s newly crowned ambassadors will be on hand, along with representatives from key supporters along our way. We’ll have a cookout to celebrate after the brief ceremony, then we’ll lead eager hikers and bikers out on the trail to get a taste of the forest.
We could not have gotten to this point without the support of Mosaic Forest Management offering us a land-use agreement, the government of British Columbia granting its Rural Dividend Fund, Community Futures nurturing our Society, Mid Island Co-op providing our very necessary and unique tool trailer, and BC Gaming helping us along the way.
Learn more information about Fairservice Fun Festival 2023 including directions, times, and more.
As a key part of their master trail plan, the Cowichan Lake Trail Blazers Society will install a hiking and biking bridge over salmon-bearing Beaver Creek that will serve as a gateway and catalyst to their trail system, with investment from Island Coastal Economic Trust’s Capital and Innovation Program.
