Our Walk Along The Bruce Trail (BTC)

Thru-Hiking Ontario's Bruce Trail Thoughts on our Bruce Trail Thru-Hike With this entry, our blog and this account of our time on the Bruce Trail come to an end.  We have shared our amazing 885 km adventure from Queenston Heights to Tobermory, as well as our time beforehand on the Niagara Parkway, or Fort to Fort Trail.     Since we first set our feet on the Bruce Trail almost 10 years have passed.  In that time, largely because of the influence of our experiences on the BTC, we have gone on pilgrimage 9 times in Europe, trekking some 5,000 km across France, Spain, and Portugal.  We have also become two of the few people to have undertaken the 14,000 km walk along the Trans Canada Trail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.  All of these accomplishments are a far cry from a duo who once fretted over making it from Owen Sound to Tobermory on foot.  In reflecting on the Bruce Trail, we wanted to highlight what feel are some of its strengths and ch...

Reflecting on Hiking the Bruce Trail End-to-End BTC Thru-Hike  It has taken us 40 days of hiking to trek from Fort Erie to Fort George and from Queenston Heights in the Niagara region to Tobermory at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula.  Our adventure along the full length of the Bruce Trail is the result of afternoon walks, weekend treks, End-to-End events, and family thru-hikes.   While the end result only took 40 days on the trail, the fact is that these took place over the course of almost 10 years.   At times we have only been able to complete small sections, while on other occasions we have had to push ourselves further than we thought possible.  Walking into Tobermory yesterday, we arrived with a mixture of sadness that our great adventure had come to its conclusion, a sense of excitement at our achievement, and a sense of relief that it was done.   Apparently, neither hiking nor how we feel about it is as straightforward as we had hoped w...

Northern Terminus of the Bruce Trail Tobermory and the Final day on the Bruce Trail  “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.”                                                                                                          Ursula K. Le Guin We awoke early to the sounds of songbirds in the trees around us.  After a day off the trail to rest and explore Bruce Peninsula National Park while camping at Cyprus Lake, we were ready to get going again.  Today we made our final push from Cyprus Lake to Tobermory and the Northern Terminus of the Bruce Trail !  Our 40th and final hike was determined by two rea...