Iroquoia - Guelph Line (83.5 km) to Smokey Hollow Falls (72.9 km) - January 12, 2023.
Iroquoia - Guelph Line (83.5 km) to Smokey Hollow Falls (72.9 km) - January 12, 2023. Happy New Year to everyone!..it's our first hike of 2023 for the Hiking with Friends group and we are excited to be back on the Bruce Trail after a few weeks of over indulgence during the festive holiday season...we are favoring the more local environs during the harsher winter period and this week, we enjoyed a roughly 11 km jaunt in the Iroquoia Section that took us from the roadside parking on Guelph Line to the parking lot at Smokey Hollow Falls on Mill St. South in Waterdown...it was a 3 hour and 20 minute adventure that didn't get off to the smoothest start (but more on that later)... When the Bruce Trail Conservancy boasts that they are "Preserving a ribbon of wilderness, for everyone, everywhere", there are few better examples of that "ribbon-ness" in such proximity to urban development than this stretch...it's a relatively flat segment, with only 252 meters of