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Iroquoia - Sydenham Road (59.8 km) to Sherman Falls (46.6 km) - February 16,2023.

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Iroquoia - Sydenham Road ( 59.8 km) to Sherman Falls (46.6 km) - February 16, 2023. It's the back half of February, winter is crawling by, and the Hiking with Friends group is determined, after a start/stop few weeks with angry weather, to get our walk in today, taking us 13.2 km from the Sydenham Road Lookout to Sherman Falls on Old Dundas Road in Ancaster. It will be a roughly 4 hour journey...through the viewing of this blog, you can now experience the highlights of our trek in much less time than that, in the comfort of your own home... let's get started! So it's my first blog in a while (unless you want to see my Mexico pictures?) and right off the bat, my Garmin watch has not performed well, having delayed its tracking data until after a kilometer or so from our actual start, further up Sydenham Road. Nevertheless, here is 95 percent of our route, which involved an urban section, forested trails, and some wonderful visuals...all on a pretty decent, warm enough with li