Hiking The Great Trail in Eastern Manitoba
Having trekked more than 3500km of the Great Trail from Cape Spear Newfoundland in 2019 and now more than 2500 km of pathways across Ontario from the nation’s capital city of Ottawa through Toronto and onto Thunder Bay we had arrived to our seventh province - Manitoba! With the fall colours settling in, we walked across the Ontario-Manitoba border on the shoulder of the Trans Canada Highway. Now in Manitoba we picked up the Great Trail at the closed Tourism Building beside the TCT Pavilion. Glad to be back on a continuous section of path (which was off the road) we ventured westward entering Whiteshell Provincial Park on a wide well maintained gravel pathway making our way along the coastline of West Hawk Lake to the community of Falcon Lake. Having spent a relaxing evening here we rejoined the South Whiteshell Trail, a 14 km tract stretching from the trails around Falcon Lake, back to the provincial border, north to Caddy Lake. A review of the...