Hiking with Friends

  Caledon Hills Section - Innis Lake Road (31.7 km) to Willoughby Road (16.1 km)- Nov. 9,2023. Ten hikers joined the hike SteveK, SteveR, Annette (hike coordinator), Nancy, Laura, Rhonda, Liz, Barbara, Sandra, and Ron (taking group photo) This hike involves a fair bit of road walking with interesting scenery! Freezing rain had encrusted the tree branches and as the day warmed up we encountered drizzly patches in the forest! We pass an abandoned car in the forest! The weather is perfect and the trail in good condition! We pass the horse paddock where the residents ignore us! Elevenses are at a road side spot! There were plenty of fallen apples along the way.  .....and apple trees laden with fruit. Another stile and we are happy to leave the road behind us and find ourselves back in the forest. We have great views over Mississauga from the Caledon area, but the photos are a bit hazy.   Steve screaming before entering the tunnel under #10 signals we are getting close to...

  Niagara Section - Southern Terminus (0.0 km) to Woodend Conservation Area (13.0 km) - Nov. 2, 2023. Hiking With Friends visited the southern terminus of the Bruce Trail this past week for a hike of 13 km from the start of the Niagara Section...0.0 km...(not to be confused with Heineken 0.0, my favorite beer) which took us as far as "a" parking lot in the Woodend Conservation Area...where, as it turned out, we had left the dropped cars, all according to plan...Laura Secord could never have pulled that off. One of the more dynamic aerial views that captures the Bruce Trail route that was taken on this overcast, cool, and apart from a few random drops here and there, dry November morning...333 meters of climbing was required, but it is not a particularly taxing hike, with several distractions along the way that make this end of the Bruce far more eclectic that its more topographically traditional northern peninsula counterpart...just over 900 kilometers of steps away. There...