Hiking Mount Nemo

In early March, John and I decided to do a hike on our own. The snow was softly falling as we arrived at Mount Nemo Conservation area. The challenge of hiking when you have taken only one car is that you have to backtrack to where you parked. The views from the cliff edge were gorgeous and much of this hike was along the cliff edge. The snow became …

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Forks of the Credit Hike

This year our family day activity was a hike in the Forks of the Credit Provincial Park. There was a lot of snow the week before, so we weren’t sure what to expect. A van stuck at the entrance of the park was not a good sign. After helping free the vehicle, we decided to park on the road and walk in.  That’s when we realized that I had …

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Queenston- Ground 0 of the Bruce Trail

At 9:30am, the temperature was a cold -8, feeling like -14 with the wind chill when our group convened in the parking lot at our hike end point in Niagara-on-the-Lake. There were eight of us in the group. As usual, we left our van at the 7km end point of our hike. We then left Louise and Lance’s car at the Old Firehall Restaurant in St David’s where we …

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