With some uncertainty about whether we could avoid the rain, we headed to the Mount Black Prince parking lot and were met with a beautiful day.
With only a few breaks for pics and only 1 swear on the hill going up, we met no one else on the trail.
We had a couple minutes of some sprinkling once we got to Warspite Lake but it quickly stopped and we enjoyed the reflections in the flooded lake.
After some lunch by the lake, we attempted to find a trail clockwise around the lake but were thwarted by a few “creeks” running out of the lake into the meadow to the NE of the lake. A little bushwacking and we decided to head down and tackle the hike to Blackshale Creek suspension bridge.
We opted to drive to the creek to take the “bypass” instead of the out-and-back trail from Mount Black Prince parking lot. This made it only about 1km up to the bridge and back.
Once we arrived at the bridge, we were pretty impressed but had to wait for a family taking their time crossing from the other side while taking pictures. Once we crossed, we noticed that the view was WAY better from the other side.
Swears – 2
- 1 on the way up to the lake
- 1 heading up to the bridge
Mary Swears By It 