Featured Location: Sanford's Sight

Sunday up here is often our day off, or at least part of it, so yesterday after a laid back morning and a podcast church service us staff and some volunteers we have up decided it was time to get out and hike a bit. Since we knew the black flies were going to be and issue, a short hike during the heat of the day was in order, hence our destination of Sanford's Sight was selected. 

For those of you old AWANA people, Sanford's Sight is a relatively new location about a 20 minute hike from base camp. Discovered by Steve Tice during one of the winter retreats, Sanford's Sight overlooks the Montreal River Valley below the river dam, and is quite honestly my favourite place to watch the sunset. Sanford's sight is named after the Sanford boys who spent many long hot hours cutting our Yandel 7 trail and in honour of their week of hard work this lookout now bares their name. Just last year a loop trail was added visiting a giant white pine before coming back to camp by way of the desert (the train washout). It makes for a nice hike that can easily be complete as an evening hike after supper.

Here are some pics from our trip

A bug infested pond by the trail

There is quite a bit of rock "walls" like this on the trip up. The look cool, but I think that in the time it took me to snap this picture I acquired 7 bug bites so I wasn't too anxious to take much more. 

The View

It was a little hazy as you can tell, but even still the picture just doesn't do this sight justice. It is such a grand sight up there.

Our hiking group, minus Joel, the photographer

Giant White Pine

 This giant tree is visible from the power road as you drive in to the boat landing as it towers over the other trees in the area.

Trey, trying the climb the tree...

And this is my brothers room mate being silly as usual... it was fun to have him and some of his family up to visit and work this week.

So while we had to keep moving most of the time to avoid the cloud of insects following us, it was great to get out and breath some fresh air. You can't beat spending the Lord's day in His handiwork and I'm grateful to be reminded of the blessing I have up here at CA serving in the company people who love God and the wilderness.