Our Walk Along The Bruce Trail (BTC)

Winter Walk in the Woods Bruce Trail in the Winter The weeks and months had rolled by since our last hike on the Bruce Trail.   Weather, commitments and reasons had begun to sound more like excuses striving to avoid walking in the slushy snows of early spring.   So in early March, we decided it was time to get going again!   As such we made plans to hike with Lenora and her furry companion Mackenzie.   We would first meet at our destination for the day parking one car at the McDui Dr. access trail in Stoney Creek and then proceed back to the Adam Dopko side trail in Grimsby to begin trekking. Given that we have spent so much of the winter sitting at desks we again opted to limit our hike to a shorter distance of about 10 km.   Ultimately it would turn out that this decision to to keep our day on the trail shorter was wise since we were all rather tired by the end of it - I guess winter did nothing to help us stay in shape! Despite being March this hike would tu...

Important Bird Area on the Bruce Trail Iroquoia Section of the Bruce Trail Our next day on the Bruce Trail was a short walk by necessity.   Today in addition to beginning the Iroquoia Section of the BTC we were also due to help a friend learn about trail maintenance on her 2 km stretch of pathway near Thirty Rd in Smithville as well as complete an assessment of a parcel of land known as the Dopko Property in Grimsby which we had taken on by volunteering as land stewards. As such after several hours of trail maintenance instruction and an ecological survey on the Dopko property the day has already slipped past.   With our work done, we stopped at Tim Hortons for lunch, and then proceeded to leave one car at the pull-off near the Adam Dopko Access Trail and drive the other back to a lot at the community centre in Grimsby parking only a couple of blocks from the trail, so we could begin our hike at km 0 of the Iroquoia section ! Winter Walking the Bruce Trail Despite already h...