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was one of those grey days where it isn’t actually

raining, but it doesn’t look like anything. else. Sol

bid the family farewell, and’ went for a walk alone. Oh well, he’s: ‘gone .in ten’

Sometimes we gofor walks trail was fairly flat and
_ together. It’s pleasant, but -. gravelled, and the crunch of

very siow, as the pace of the . my boots was the-only sound ©

_ walk is that of the smallest around. But it was only a few

- pair. of legs. If I’m feeling hundred feet long, and then I _

restless, the walk. is an was ‘back in suburbia and
ordeal. I‘want to walk fast, asphalt’ again. - er
stretching my. legs and a

changing the air in my lungs. - ~The surface of the road
The only way to do that i is to wasn’t nearly as pleasant to
walk alone. | my feet, and the. surround-
| ings less private. A dog came

; supplied with trails. They’ Tre feet before he would let me

hard to find, sometimes, as by. Kids gawked at me

- they tend to cross the green curiously as I edged through |
belts and connect areas of - their street hockey: game, |

cul-de-sac there are no for quite a while.
indications. which road to

_ take to pick up the.end of the | The next. trail’ was very
next path. It is sometimes pleasant, littered with bark -
necessary. to --cast ~around, ~~ mulch ‘and sawdust. My feet:
walking up and ‘down 2 few ~ made no noise at all on the |
streets until one finds the cushioned surface. I ‘stopped. 7

faint markings in the bush to pick up a small cedar tip

lt felt good. to get out of the memories of a boy who slid
house on Sunday. The first down a cedar tree, feeling

. the bark: rough: and: warm .

| against his body, and getting

| Pitch.

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“4199 Lonsdale Avenue," wo
North Vancouver,8.C.. —

V7M 2H4" _ From 1 my’ pocket r recorder:
|. “The trail turns. A sign in
OFFICEINEWS © _. J the trees says: that ‘the’
(604) 980-0511.- -- | property :near’ the trail is

CLASSIFIED | Private, and there is a brief
~ 986-6222, —-—s«|_s glimpse of a house gable and
CIRCULATION: — = | window, then the trail turns |
. 986-1337 | | again and the house is lost.

‘from view. It’s not.so quiet
cre ax here, the soft liquid sounds —
of the forest and a tiny creek,

se anhmaaneamambal

nearby are lost’ under the

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by Peter Speck he Z

Last Sunday the: kids were. driving 1 me wingy. it swings 5 the bik bike from side to o

“ling to a faint © noise that:
eventually disappears i in the
 distan

and. we are in suburbia.

lies. along the pavement for

- Of a tunnel. It’s a long
West Vancouver is well --out growling to sniff at my

- diameter, with an’ asphalt -

It’s cold in there, and I am
_ housing and | pavement. and acar that went by had its —
_ When one emerges from the exhaust so rich with gasoline _-
woods at the end of. a § that I didn’t want to breathe :
like to bea miner.

large gravel pit. This trail is
wide and well-kept. Leaves _
. - are still falling and the forest
~~ that. indicate a trail opening. that had fallen. The ‘tich _
resin fragrance, when. I.

GooD TO GET OUT _ crushed it, was like a trip into
-* the: ‘past,. bringing instantly _

his fingers sticky with the -
Same “fragrant” smell of

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Side, spitting the bark mulch
out from. under » the. year .
wheel of. the moisy machine. “

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“A. last turn in the trail,
again. This time. the’ route

quite a long way and then

under the highway by means ‘Appointments are 5 urged. Piease » phone 987-8549 or

-_ drop byt Big) Bird Sound for reservation.

tunnel, made of corrugated o
tubing about ten feet im

floor, and it echoes hollowly.
giad to be back in the

air at the other end.
Somehow, I don’t em: Fd

“Some distance above the 7
highway I find the end of the |
trail again, and walk in past a.

floor is covered with a mat of

_alder and maple leaves. The :
maple’ leaves : are ‘mostly: -

orange‘and brown, and the ©.
alder leaves green and
yellow, and there are many
other colours around to see,
fT take time to, look. ©

. ‘“About a “quarter-mile :

_ from the end of the road is:a-' ee

set of waterfalls, surrounded «3
by chain-link fencing. I spent [ia
a few minutes there, absorb- |

ed in the spectacle of all that [aa
water. The noise was enough...

to mask out any disturbance. :

“Past ‘the: falls ‘the ‘trail aa
branches. 1. pick. ‘the | right. ;
hand branch, and continued ©
to climb up. It is’ a little
colder up here, and there is a
little snow here and there on
the ground. About a half-'
mile past the hydro substa-'
tion,. where I can’t hear the.

hum any more,I decide to ff.

Stop. It is the first longish. .
walk for ‘a while, and my
muscles are. okay but my. hip...
joints are getting a little sore.

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