The resort is encouraging overnight guests who are staying trailside to use their rooms as their own private day lodges, freeing up space in the lodge for day guests.
It was also impossible for the car to go around the tree, on account of the rocky ground at the trailside.
Just as Hank disappeared, a form tore through the bushes close to the trailside and rushed for the car.
And ahead of him, and amongst the trailside bush, he beheld nothing but this rising flood.
Together they started for the trailside, and the wooded slope leading to the gap.