The Goose Narrows Trail is a jewel set along the shore of Mohun Lake. The trailhead is at the parking lot between Mohun and Mortion Lake campsite. Just look past the blue, bear-proof trash receptacles. It is completely flat and, for the most part, easily walkable. I like to walk this trail as well as the others that head off from various spots in the campsite. The variety of fungi is phenomenal. It sometimes takes me hours to hike a short trail because I keep going off-trail to photograph the shrooms growing in such abundance.
The Goose Narrows Trail follows an old railroad grade that the Lambs Lumber Company owned. They operated a logging camp at Goose Narrows. Logs were sorted and boomed in Goose Lake, then loaded on trains and transported by rail to its main camp at the north end of Menzies Bay.
You can still see the remains of the Menzies Camp, just look for the old rail line that heads along the north side out to the bluffs where logs were dumped into the bay. The forest has many old pieces of the camp’s history hidden in the ferns and shrubs.
The Lamb Lumber Company Ltd. was incorporated in Vancouver in 1912 and was liquidated in 1960. Thomas A. Lamb and his family owned and operated the company throughout its life. They had rail lines all over the Mohun Lake area that we still use as hiking trails.
The Goose Narrows Trail is one of the nicest in this area by far. It takes you along the lake where the views are amazing and the trail is flat, although after a good rain, there can be some troublesome mud puddles. These usually have ways around, but if raining, just wear gumboots. Watch for the two kinds of Alders that grow along the shore. The Red Alder has rather smooth edges on the leaves, while the Sitka Alder has a pronounced sawtooth edge.
When you reach the crossing area, look close and you see an old rail line heading to the right, I have not taken much more than a cursory glance at it, but hope to see where it goes. I think the lumber camp was in this direction, who knows what could be hidden here.