This is my first adventure of 2018. So far this winter the weather had been terrible for snowshoeing. There hasn't been a lot of snow and it has been really cold. This has made really icy conditions. I brought my snowshoes but after walking for just a hundred meters I decided to leave them in …
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Every year I try to visit a Provincial Park while it's closed. The advantages to this is it's free and you don't have to worry about others. This year, I visited Grundy Lake Provincial Park. The park usually opens early May and closes shortly after thanksgiving weekend. There are over 400 campsites , three hiking …
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I had four goals this summer: 1)Â Check out the islands at Limestone Islands Provincial Park 2) Hike La Cloche Silhouette trail 3)Â Hike the Lake Superior Provincial Park coastal trail 4)Â Hike the Highland Backpacking Trail in one day. One, two and three were multi-day trips that were super weather dependent. However, the one day trip was …
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Whiskeyjack Lake and Limestone Islands Provincial Park are the coolest places I visited this year. La Cloche Silhouette trail is a 80 km hike around Killarney Provincial Park. The most popular section of it being "The Crack" hiking trail. This is a 4 km section of it (8 km round trip). Top of "The Crack". …
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I was looking for trails closer to home and came across the Limberlost Forest and Wildlife Reserve. They have over 70 kilometers of hiking trails with five main loop trails that I was able to piece together with their trail map. August 13th 2017 Solitaire Lake loop:Â This trail is a 6.3 km loop trail around …
I was looking around Google Earth and somehow happened upon this place, Sansawaju Mountain. It is located just off of Grassy Lake Road, a road I am familiar from tree-planting in the area. I headed up Friday night and spent the night at the old Shinning Tree camp located at 47.499838, -81.312946. The old campsite. September 16th, …
Two weeks before Jo and I set off on our five day trip in Killarney, I checked out its topographical map. I noticed a peak − Peak 489 − that seemed to tower over all the other peaks, safe for Silver Peak. Peak 489 overlooks O.S.A. Lake and potentially Georgian Bay. Saturday morning, I woke …
Josée and I go on an annual canoe trip. Our trip to Killarney last year was a little too cold and buggy, so this year, we pushed our trip back a week – to the second week of July. We also wanted to change up our food. So the day before our trip, we dehydrated …
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