Grant's Trail 2025-02-18

Five hikers bravely faced the challenge of cold temps & wind to prove that there is good in every day.  Barely a trace of a possible trail remained on Grant's trail as we forged ahead with determination - go Louise!  Going counterclockwise, we made it to the creek crossing in time for our snack break (after a frustrated attempt to make our way to the lake shore - a challenge for another day!).  The good-est part of the day was the unexpected sunshine that escorted us all the way back.  PHOTOS

Sat feb 15th snowshoe 2025 02 15

Narrative to come

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Hike & Camp

 Second annual hike and camp. I have reserved site 461 at Pancake Bay Provincial Park. Looks as though the sites are going fast. Book now if you want to go. this year we will be doing 3 nights instead of 2. Tuesday July 15 to Friday July 18

Heber

Golf course snowshoe 2025 02 13

 a few pics from yesterdays snowshoe

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Attn: Sat 15th hike 2025 02 12

 From Washington Crescent snow dump to Esten Lake Beach across Slipper Lake and back. Just under 6km in total. This is the shortest route to the beach. 

Slipper Lake has plenty of ice but if you don't like being on a frozen lake this snowshoe hike isn't for you. 

Rodd

Big D part deux

 Part 2

Snowshoe hike restart from Saturday. After short drive to Denison Road and over an embankment the start of an adventure began.

13 lucky hikers snowshoed down the pole line on a crispy -17 C day all the way to the Serpent River where we stopped and turned around. Half of the trail had been trodded on the past Saturday so not a lot of new trail had to be made. Many big hills to conquer. 3.87 kms of tough trail but we did it. No animal sightings but lots animal tracks.

We miss Mara our cheese and goodies lady. Wishing her a fast recovery.

Thanks to Jean Guy for leading and Julia for sweeping. It was a great way to spend the morning.

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Birdie trail 2025 02 11

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Big D snowshoe hike 2025 02 08

 Challenging area,deep Snow everywhere 

We broke trail for 1hour IN

That was great for us today !!

On the return 30minutes.. easy.

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Thurs Feb 6 snowshoe 2025 02 06

 Light snow welcomed 9 hikers to the starting circle and stuck around for most of the hike.  It sure wasn't enough to dampen spirits by any means and we headed out to Panel Mine Rd where we expected a snow-covered trail. Instead, we found ski tracks!  Kudos to the team who were reluctant to disturb them out of respect for skiers, however, the leader assured them that nobody sking on the trail would expect it to remain untrampled since most of it is too narrow to go beside them.  So on we marched!  The going was not too tough and those breaking trail had to be encouraged to rotate out and give others the chance at the beautiful view in front.  Just before our break, the skiers veered right and our destination was to the left so we had the full-on trail breaking experience for a short time.  After break, it was not long until we re-connected with the the incoming trail and had an "easy" finish to a great walk in the woods ... we hardly noticed that long hill...   All agreed that it had been an enjoyable Thursday hike - even more so for anyone anticipating a great ski on this well prepared trail!  

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Emilys Trail 2025 02 04

 Nine of us set off along Emily's Trail   on this bright , sunny, windy, and cold winter 's day.

The first 2 km has been well used by members of the public. The trail was already well stomped out. Just beyond the bench,  the trail had  not been stomped. So, we took turns  at the head of the  Gang of Nine.  This worked out well. 

We arrived at the Big Rock for our lunch break. Some decided to  walk ahead to Sandy Pt. 

It really made a difference snowshoeing on a well tromped  on trail as we continued  returned!! 

We know the line from a movie

" If you build it, they will come."

Well, after all the hard work of stomping  the trail, we met 2 people snowshoeing  along with their 2 dogs .  Big smiles when they told us they enjoyed the trail.  

Good  conversations and good vibes. 

Thanks to our 2 Sweeps:   Ruth on the way out, and Dave N. on the way back! 

We found a Snow Angel on the back of the Big Rock where we had lunch.  

We saw fox, squirrel, weasel (maybe?), wolf and a partridge in a yellow birch tree. 

P.S... Elliot Lake has the small ice shack village just off the Spine Rd Beach. 

Last week someone had plowed a road to allow ice fishers to drive their vehicles to these shacks. 

With all the heavy weight of snow in the last few days, part of that road is complete slush today! 

Here is a photo from January 23 of Elliot Lake before the snow came. One brave soul had driven a Side by Side on the ice just off Spine 

Beach .

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