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The Best Wilderness Washrooms
The volunteers at the local PAWS (Parks and Wilderness Society) have been busy building new composting outhouses at many sites on the Sunshine Coast Trail. Under the guidance of Jim Stutt, the PAWS crew pre-built many of the pieces for these outhouses over this past winter. These pieces were then brought into these isolated sites by helicopter, where the PAWS crew assembled them.
New outhouses, as well as robust aluminum food storage lockers, can now be found at Rainy Day Lake, Fiddlehead Landing, Lewis Lake east campsite and Elk Lake. Two more outhouses will eventually be built at Tin Hat Mountain and at the Mount Troubridge emergency shelter.
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PAWS has also upgraded picnic tables, benches, tent pads and other amenities at these sites. The new huts at Sarah Point (built in 2021) and Bliss Portage (2020) also have these composting outhouses. Thank you to the Powell River Community Forest for providing the funding to make this all possible.
- Jim Simonetta
