Beaver Valley Section - Eugenia Falls (60.8 km) to Johnston's Side Road (74.3 km) - Sept. 21, 2023.
Beaver Valley Section - Eugenia Falls (60.8 km) to Johnston's Side Road (74.3 km) - Sept. 21, 2023. It's the last day of our first of two 3 day trips to the more northern sections of the Bruce Trail for the Hiking With Friends group and we are wrapping up with a 13 km walk in beautiful Beaver Valley...in a recreation of a hike that some of the group did in early June (under very hot and buggy conditions as I recall- I was not there fortunately), we are travelling from Eugenia Falls on the east side of the valley, down and around and up the west side to the parking lot on Johnston's Side Road... We will be on the trail for 5 hours, although a good chunk of that (40 min?) was due to a very unusual delay that I will reveal later...suffice it to say that there was a "blaze of a different colour" that caught our attention...this is a deceptively challenging hike, not overly long compared to yesterday's 20 km, but requiring some real climbing effort at 525 meters,