What a mess vandals have made in Upper Glenrosa
On a not so scenic drive in Upper Glenrosa, I was disgusted to find a lot of garbage and debris along the route. Just past the Telemark Cross Country Ski Resort, I saw a car seat thrown into the ditch to my left, and a roof rack to my right, along with trees deliberately cut down. The vandals left an empty Tim Horton’s cup nearby.
Further up the road, near the watershed, northwest of the abandoned Crystal Mountain Resort, I found some wooden fencing torn apart, along with a vandalized hunting shack.
There was a sign for Crystal Mountain Resort lying along the side of the road and multiple garbage piles, full of lumber from trashed fencing, beer cans and shot gun shells.
Even more appalling was a washer and dryer shot full of bullet holes and left in the middle of the forestry road.
At that same site a few months earlier, I had seen some beer cans in an old extinguished camp fire with a gas can in it. Today’s mess was far worse though.
I have enjoyed the beauty of the Crown lands in that spot for some time now and have watched families bring their children to toboggan down a nearby hill in the winter seasons.
Fun and free family entertainment in the supernatural woods of British Columbia.
In early March of this year, I believe I saw a wolverine running through the trees down below the now trashed area.
The animal had been feeding on a deer carcass and when I yelled at my dog, who was trying to go down that same hill, the wolverine took off. The creature’s body shape, fluffy straight tail and the way it loped away, reminded me of some documentaries I had seen on the wolverine, which lead me to believe it was one of that species.
I had also seen large canid tracks without human human foot prints with them, which made me believe that they were probably that of a wolf. I took a photo of the tracks on my phone on March 22. The prints seemed relatively fresh. Having spent 10 years in the back country of the foothills of Alberta, I had seen many different animal tracks, including wolf, cougar, bear, deer, horse, elk and moose.
Hence, I was quite interested to explore the backwoods near my home on Upper Glenrosa, from the safe distance of my vehicle of course.
It is deplorable what these vandals have done to our lovely forest, and I would like to see some video surveillance set up in the area to catch those responsible.
In the meantime, I am willing to clean up the mess with some help of other volunteers, as I am currently physically disabled from a bad horse riding accident last year.
My husband and I have a small flat bed trailer which could haul away the washer and dryer and some other garbage.
If anyone would be willing to help that would be great.