A Weekend Away from Great Trail Preparations – Hiking the Bruce Trail

Returning to Ontario's Niagara Escarpment for the Blue Mountains End-to-End

Trekking the Bruce Trail 

Over the past several months, much of our free time has been devoted to researching and preparing for our planned journey across Canada on the Great Trail (Trans Canada Trail). Between studying maps, developing itineraries, testing equipment, undertaking training hikes, and working through the many practical considerations involved in such an enormous undertaking – all while working full-time and giving presentations for sponsorship - it sometimes feels as though every spare moment is occupied by plans for a journey that is still more than a year away.

 
This weekend, however, we have an opportunity to step away from those preparations and return to another long-distance hiking project that has been part of our lives for several years – completing Ontario's Bruce Trail from Queenston Heights to Tobermory.  We have been slowly piecing together this remarkable pathway along the Niagara Escarpment through a combination of day hikes, weekend adventures, and organized End-to-End events. However, as our progress has taken us farther north from our home in Simcoe, Ontario, arranging transportation and completing individual sections has become increasingly complicated. Organized hikes offered by local Bruce Trail clubs have therefore become an appealing way to continue our journey.
 
This weekend, we are joining the Blue Mountains End-to-End, an organized two-day hike covering approximately 66 kilometres of the Bruce Trail. Together with Lenora, a local teacher, we will be camping at Craigleith Provincial Park and joining other hikers to explore another section of the Niagara Escarpment.
 
See you on the Trail!