Hiking with Friends

Toronto Section - Limehouse (21.5) to Speyside (11.4) - distance 10.2 km June 22, 2023 The last time we hike this rocky stage is on December 4, 2022, but in the opposite direction, from Speyside to Limehouse.  Barbara is the coordinator then, Annette today.  Then it is winter and bug-free.  This time we are swarmed by hungry mosquitos.  Each of us has our own personal cloud of these pests.  They are so maddening that we gallop straight through the stage without stopping for lunch, arriving at Speyside at about 12:15, some kind of a record!  Stopping for any reason is torment. There are eleven of us, Marleen, Catherine, Frances (sweep), Muris, Josie, Nancy, Liz, Rita, Andrea, Annette (coordinator), and Doug.   Liz quietly completes the trail on her own a few weeks ago.  Hoping to avoid fuss, she keeps quiet about her triumph.  We embarrass her with a ceremony anyway.    Off we go. Almost immediately we reach the ruins of the draw kil...

  Sydenham Section - Lundy Road (135.2 km) to East Linton Access (118.2 km) - June 15, 2023. This day may start like any other hiking day (well, truthfully it didn't but I need contrast), but it will end with a very significant achievement fulfilled by two of our very dedicated and long tenured hiking friends, Doug and Barbara, and filled full of happy shared memories for all who participated with them along the way...their final steps will be taken from Lundy Road to the access on East Linton Side Road West...a 17 km hike that that will complete their roughly 2 1/2 year odyssey... Looking at the route from north to south, this sinuous trail is, in my estimation, the most highly forested walk on the Bruce...we will hike for six hours and twenty minutes (very close to last October's 6hr 40 min hike with just me, Arpi, Sandra and Lesley when we did this hike by accident in the other direction but that's a story for another day)...we will be "in the trees" for almost...