An Exploration in Mosquito Creek

During the summer months, North Shore Rescue trades training for familiarization hikes on the North Shore. Last Tuesday night, under the guidance of our mapping and trails expert Doug, we explored the trails up in Mosquito Creek.


I've been into Mosquito Creek a couple of times on different search & rescue tasks - once, Bob and I descended the length of the creek over 9 hours in a search for a missing American, David Koch. In a separate task last year, Mike & I went in to find and bring out 3 wayward Japanese english students:


The Mosquito Creek area can best be characterized as having horrendous bush, criss-crossed in the lower area with a confusing array of very old logging and skid roads - certainly a very easy area to get lost.