Climbers Access Society Of BC

Gimli Beach Food Locker

written Saturday, October 08, 2011

for Kootenays

by Doug Brown

Anyone who has spent a night at Gimli "Beach" bivi site knows that the local snafflehound population will stop at nothing to get your food - and there are even reports of them carrying off small children left unattended.

Last summer the Access Society contacted BC Parks to request a secure food storage locker at the Beach, and this September, a snafflehound-proof food locker was installed about 60 m south of the "beach" and about 45 m south of the "biffy" - it is bolted to a large boulder.

No more fighting with those blasted rodents!