Comments for Heavy-J's Official Mt Tzouhalem Website

Comment on Dom’s Triple Sec by Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:03:47 +0000

if you go to the yellow gate its the first trail on the right

Comment on Maps by adam

adam — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:51:57 +0000

i was wondering if anyone has ridden the “awesome” trail of late or ever. How do I find it ? (I have never seen the entrance to it) and is it a good ride or mostly a hike-a-bike? Please let me know.

thanks
adam from cowichan station

Comment on Contact by me

me — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:55:37 +0000

wat a good path down from the top for a hardtail of beginer fully rider

Comment on Contact by wetcoastrider

wetcoastrider — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:38:38 +0000

wow man your website rocks its probally the only reason im not still lost in the bush. got question i lovethe bridges like zig zag, like 5 feet and under drops but love to build up confidence for bigger. i done emmas express and skywalker, doms tripple sec has some fun stuff to too big for me. wat trails u suggest up higher. started at midle t by the road gap but went right at junction and had harder ride, brutal up hill sections that no fully would ride. which way is a fasater flowwy way down and is there an updated map.

thanks tryin to get down there in 2 weeks again.

Comment on Photos by Dave

Dave — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:06:04 +0000

As flatlanders we twice tried to find the summit and cross on Mt Zoo aided by Municipal Park maps but failed. Your maps are great and we may have time to do a third try before heading home to the Peg.

Comment on JPEGs by Heavy-J

Heavy-J — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:18:40 +0000

Try the PDF at:
http://mtzoo.wordpress.com/about/pdfs/

Once you’ve opened the PDF, you can use the file…print settings to adjust the paper size…

Comment on JPEGs by Ted Stallard

Ted Stallard — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:39:20 +0000

I am not great at all on the computer,would you be able to help me out and let me know how I can gat a full size map on one sheet of paper large enough to read the trail names……..from a non computer guy..TED Thanks

Comment on The Cross by Heavy-J

Heavy-J — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:27:49 +0000

This info was kindly provided by Maria at Providence Farm, her father welded the cross…

Originally, a wooden cross was put up on Tzouhalem in 1976 by St. Ann’s Catholic Church (Able Joe) and St. Edward’s Catholic Church (Cliff Pascoe). The cross was put up as part of “ecumenical” celebrations – part of Easter/Good Friday. Each year many people hike to the cross stopping to do the “stations of the cross” on the way up as part of the Catholic Easter celebration.

The wooden cross was repeatedly vandalized (burned/cut down), so it was replaced with the metal cross in 1988 (approx date). Maurice Dupont, a welder, made the cross in Crofton, and 3 members of Knights of Columbus, as a group, got it up there. The group included Jack Pearce, Peter Cain and Oly Bar. They drove up the mountain as far as possible then carried the steel and cement in the rest of the way. The picture above was taken after the final cementing was completed

There is also an old legend:
Chief Tzouhalem, a vicious, warring and grossly disfigured Chief, would hide out in the caves that are in Mt. Tzouhalem before and after a raid. Legend says that when he tired of his “wife” he would take her up to the point where the cross is, and throw her off – then he would go and “take” another wife. It is rumoured that he had up to 40 wives though when he was killed in 1859 he had only 14.

One story suggests he was exiled from his tribe for killing his fellow tribesmen so he moved to a cave on the mountain which now bears his name.

Another is little grimmer. He and his tribe had planned to take his next wife from a nearby tribe, planned the attack and went to carry it out. Story goes that the tribe they went to attack got word of the plan, and planned their own ambush. During the ambush Chief Tzouhalem’s head was severed. They buried his body somewhere, but kept the head to guard it for some spiritual reasons (to keep his spirit from returning?). Apparently his head is still being guarded somewhere…

Comment on Nat-J’s Moab Cam by Mandalicious

Mandalicious — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:17:53 +0000

cool vid nat; i love the music….it’s so you! on a mission! luv ya!

Comment on The Cross by Ray H

Ray H — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:11:31 +0000

What is the history of the cross?