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ERRINGTON 



A post-office about four miles west of Parksville. Camp was 

 established ou what is known as the Swain Ranch, some three 

 miles west of the post-office. Miss Alexander and Miss Kellogg 

 were here from May 20 to 27, and I returned and made a base 

 camp at this same place at the end of the summer, August 29 to 

 September 28. There are farms scattered at intervals of several 

 miles, where there are small areas of cleared land, grain fields 

 and pastures, the rest of the region (and by far the greater part 

 of it) being covered with forest. The woods are not so dense, 

 however, but that they can be traversed with comparative ease. 

 The bulk of the forest is made up of conifers, of course, but there 

 are thickets of alder and willow in the low spots, and a number 

 of wild cherries in many places. There are also a good many 

 madroiias scattered through the woods, some of them of large size. 

 About Beaver Creek wharf (some six miles from Errington) 

 there are a number of oaks, but I saw none more than a few 

 hundred yards back from the shore. There are also large areas 

 of low-lying marsh land, submerged in winter, but quite dry at 

 the time we were there, covered with patches of willow and 

 spiraea. This whole region, near the coast, is low and quite level 

 and unbroken, but toward the southwest it rises into hills which 

 culminate in high mountains, of which Mount Arrowsmith, some 

 ten miles inland, is the highest and most conspicuous peak. 



MOUNT ARROWSMITH 



September 6 to S were devoted to the ascent and descent of 

 Mount Arrowsmith. We drove from Errington to the east end 

 of Cameron Lake, where the trail leads up the mountain to a 

 long-abandoned mine. From this point, though there is no trail, 

 traveling is fairly easy for the most part. We camped in a 

 thicket just at the edge of the timber, and at the foot of the 

 southernmost rocky peak. The extensive hillsides are covered 

 with heather, intersected by numerous little streams descending 

 from the surrounding snowbanks. Across the ridge from where 

 we were camped was a little lake, with heather-covered slopes on 

 all sides. 



