The main hiking trail to the backside of the Stawamus Chief has re-opened after a closure necessitated by a significant rock fall on the trail earlier this week.
The trail, which was closed by a rock fall that occurred late Monday (June 18), damaging one of the staircases about 200 metres from the trailhead, re-opened Thursday (June 21), a B.C. Parks official said.
No one was hurt in the incident, which occurred a couple of minutes after four hikers had passed the spot, according to the hiking website www.clubtread.com. The situation prompted a visit by a geotechnical engineer and a team of rock scalers, who were brought in to bring down any loose rocks that remained on the slope from which the slab estimated by one observer at between 15 and 20 tonnes fell.
One of the two chunks of rock that lay on the ground after the incident was the size of a small car, John Tisdale, B.C. Parks area supervisor, told The Chief.
