Iroquoia Section - Crawford Lake (104.5 km) to end of section (120.6 km), 14 August 2025


Iroquoia Section - Crawford Lake (104.5 km) to end of section (120.6 km), 14 August 2025 

Notice the Trail Notices near the Kelso Visitors' Centre.  They report that the bridge over the railroad tracks is currently closed.  I (Doug) had not seen them before the hike.  I advertised the hike as 17.4 kilometres, taking into account hiking from-and-to the parking lots at each end.  The detour via the tunnel under the railroad adds an extra half-kilometre, just what we did not want at the end of a long and sweaty hike.  We did not notice the tunnel as we galloped by, adding yet another several hundred metres.  There were mutterings!


Eleven of us braved the distance on a day which was cooler in the morning than it has been, but which nevertheless was hot and sultry by the afternoon ... from the left, Faryde, Doug (HC and photographer), Annette (photographer), Frank C., Ivan, Barbara, Frances, Ron B., Nancy, Diane, and Frank L. (photographer).

We set off south and west on the Crawford Lake Side Trail to join the main trail, and encountered the lake itself, beautiful and still, and living up to its claim as a very special place. (Crawford Lake has been proposed as the key site that shows we're in a new climate epoch, the Anthropocene. The first age of the Anthropocene could be named the "Crawfordian," after the lake.)


On the Main Trail ... 


Nassagaweya Canyon






Does a bridge over a culvert qualify for a bridge-picture?


Barbara modelling the gentlewoman-hiker.  Ivan modelling the proletarian.


Magnificent Faryde and Ivan ...


Above the quarry overlooking Kelso Lake ...



The tunnel under the railroad tracks.  Invisible from the path above and no trail-diversion signs.  Missing it was not my fault.  Honest.


No more photos after this.  We were all too tired.  There was ice-cream at the Kelso Visitors' Centre.  Not very good, though. 


The end.




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