Wed May 7 - Bike Ride from Beavermeade

 Meet at 10:00 in the Beavermeade parking lot to decide on a route. 

Pigeon River on the Hogsback trail

Wed April 30 - Port Hope Waterfront Trail walk

 Pete MacLoghlin, Gordon Powell, Blake Frazer & Bill Hardwick met John Ambler in the Caldwell St parking on yet another gorgeous day for a 7 km walk. From the parking lot we walked east on the pedestrian Waterfront Trail for 3 km along the Lake Ontario shoreline that has a long boardwalk beside the Sculthorpe Marsh before ending at Gage Creek where we took a trail north beside the creek to a side trail for a walk on Lake St west past the wetland then north crossing over the railway tracks & Cty Rd 2 to continue north on Rose Glen Rd to a trail that borders the TCS property & west to Francis St then William St where we stopped for coffee & cookies at the Ambler home before walking south on King St past many beautiful heritage homes to the car.  On the way home we couldn't resist stopping at Doo-Doo's for buttertarts.  Photos by Blake.

                                                                     Gage Creek

                                                      Coffee time at Ambler's

Waterfront trail

Wed April 23 - Ganaraska Trail Hike

Pete MacLoghlin, Blake Frazer, Peter Hamley, Arndt Kruger, Dale Standen & Rod MacIsaac met Bill Hardwick who led us on a 5.27 km hike on another area of the Pine Ridge section of the Ganaraska Trail, starting at the southern end of Glamorgan Rd off Cty Rd 21 west of Millbrook. We had another ideal day for a walk on a hard-packed dirt trail that winds it's way up & down thru a 2nd growth forest where there were numerous fallen trees & branches from the recent ice-storm that we had to navigate around. The Ganaraska Trail is a 500 km walking trail from Port Hope to the Bruce Trail in Collingwood with side trails to Wasaga Beach & Midland that is managed by The Ganaraska Trail Association. After the walk we met for lunch at Moody's in Millbrook 

                                    Blake beside a drywall foundation in the middle of the forest

Thursday April 17 - Hogsback Road hike

 On a gorgeous spring day Peter Hamley, Bill Hardwick & I walked 7 km on the Pine Ridge section of The Ganaraska Trail between Omemee & Bethany, an esker ridge overlooking the City of Kawartha Lakes countryside. We started from the south end of the trail on Ski Hill Rd (Cty Rd 38) across from the Buddhist Garden complex. This is a challenging hike with many "hills & valleys" including a long steep rocky slope near the start. However there are lovely vistas of the surrounding countryside as we made our way to the Pigeon R where we stopped for a break before turning back. There are 2 other access points, one at the end of Hayes Line & the other  at the north end off Mt Horeb Rd. 

Pigeon River - the trail is heading towards Mt Horeb Rd 

                                         Hogsback trail with a hill climb in the background 

countryside view from the trail