Access: Click for details on Getting to Buntzen Lake.
Level: Difficult
Distance: 6 km
Time: 3 hr
Elevation Change: 150 m
Season: April - November
Topographical Map: 92 G/7
Multiple-Use: Open to Mountain Bikes, Horses and Hikers
This and the following trails provide a network for horse and bike riders to loop around Buntzen Lake. The Lakeview Trail connects Pumphouse Road to the Old Buntzen Lake Trail following the rugged ridge above Buntzen Lake's western shore.
Horsetails
Some would say the first plant: ever! A gigantic earlier relative of the common horsetail thrived in the Carboniferous era and eventually became our present day coal deposits. Containing silica, horsetails make a natural "sandpaper." On the west coast horsetails and salmon slime were used to polish masks, canoes, bone tools and soapstone pipes. In spite of the rough texture of the stalk, the young plant heads can be eaten as asparagus.
Illustration by Manami Kimura
