01/05/2021
The Salt Spring Island Trail and Nature Club has been fundraising for “The Missing Link”—a trail connection on Mt. Erskine. It’s a crucial link in an almost 6 kilometre trail from Collins Road to Toynbee Road. The missing link also contains some terrific viewpoints surrounded by majestic trees that make excellent picnic spots.
With all of the economic problems, islanders have been very generous to ensure our trail connection. With the money received and promised, we’re around 60 percent there. But we have only one more month to raise another approximately $60,000 to buy this piece of land. That’s a bit like climbing up to the top of Mt. Erskine: the first part is always easier than the last.
Many of you reading this article already use the trails on Mt. Erskine. I regularly count more than a dozen cars parked at the end of Trustees Trail, and many others access the trails from Collins and Toynbee Roads. If each of you who use these trails were to donate even $25, we’d easily reach our goal of buying the land, and you’d get a tax receipt too.
Every donation counts, especially when fundraisers are trying to convince larger donors like foundations that their project has wide support.
So if you’d like to help us with a donation to “the missing link” on Mt. Erskine, please go to the BC Parks Foundation website— https://bcparksfoundation.ca/projects/enhance/mount-erskine-park. Press the donate button and complete the form. But be sure to specify that your donation is going to the “Mount Erskine Park Trail Connection Fundraiser.”
