Niagara Section - Kinsmen Park (69.8 km) to Grimsby (83.3 km) - Dec. 14, 2023.
Niagara Section - Kinsmen Park (69.8 km) to Grimsby (83.3 km) - Dec. 14, 2023. It's our final outing of 2023 for the Hiking With Friends group, and we wrapped up another great year by hitting the western end of the Niagara Section last Thursday for a hike of roughly 14 km from Kinsmen Park in Lincoln to the Lions Community Center in Grimsby. The view from above of an area known as "The Benchlands", a descriptor gleaned from the distinctive forested ridge that is the Niagara escarpment and prominent for its numerous vineyards that occupy the verdant landscape (or at least that portion that hasn't been developed for housing)...our hike will take 4 hours and 40 minutes to complete and require a modest 330 meters of climbing...nothing to whine about there... Having dropped some vehicles at the parking lot of the Grimsby Lions Community Pool, we venture over to the starting point at Kinsmen Park where 11 of us gather to greet the day and look forward to spending some tim...