Niagara Section - Glen Road (55.5 km) to Swazye Falls (42.3 km) - Feb. 8,2024.
Niagara Section - Glen Road (55.5 km) to Swayze Falls (42.3 km) - Feb. 8,2024. Hiking With Friends returned to wine country and took on a trek in the Niagara Section this past week..it was a pre-SuperBowl hike of just under 14 km from the roadside parking on Glen Road near Balls Falls, to the parking lot on Roland Road near Swayze Falls...while our aim was chief-ly to complete the walk safely and in good time, it turned out we weren't as swift as we had hoped to be...but I can give 49 reasons why that was...maybe Vegas didn't like our odds. I didn't think it would be such a long, long time, until touchdown brought me round again to find, what a tough track this can be...but circumstance meant it had been four years since I had done this hike...and despite a seemingly modest 350 meters of climbing, there's some tough terrain and, not surprisingly, lots of slippery, muddy trail to contend with, that means it will take us almost 5 hours to reach our goal line... A surpr...