Shannon Falls

On the way to Whistler, we listened to the app from Gypsy.com called Sea to Sky.  Prior to the Olympics, the Canadians upgraded the Sea to Sky Highway to facilitate moving athletes and spectators to Whistler.  It is now a spectacular drive between the ocean and the mountains.

At one point, Gypsy told us to stop at Shannon Falls.  So we did!  This fall was created after the Ice Age.  Glaciers carved out the valley, and when the ice melted, it left a place for the water to fall into the valley below.

To walk to the falls, we walked through a portion of the rain forest and saw many examples of very large cedar trees.  Several of them still had the springboard marks from logging days. 

I have learned that logging is very dangerous, especially when cutting down these large cedar trees.  Don is standing next to one of them.  Glad he isn't trying to cut THAT one down - I hate to think what might have happened to our guttering if he had!

This is one big tree!