Bruce Trail: Caledon E2E Day 3

Actually THE most stunning day.   Added in a waterfall side quest as well :).  Did this part on my own, with J&B as trail angles to drop me at the starting point ;).   Hike was the stuff dreams are made of - esp when it also happened to be a Monday lol.   The system I rigged to hold the poles for the roadwalking part worked well -- I'll invest in proper clips for a long-term version of it 😂.   Lots of stairs today and lots of road, but also ALL the fall leaves and - I saw a fox ❤️ 

Today's Stats:

Distance: 25.9 km 
Elevation Gain: 482 m 
Weather: 10 deg sunny and windy
Duration: 5h 39 min
Avg Pace: 12:11

 

Bruce Trail: Caledon Day 2

With Janie and Braulio today - J's knee was a little stressed so took it easy.  Got rained on for all of about 45 seconds - just long enough to test out the rain cover on the bag ;).  Another day of gorgeous views and stunning leaves.   While still a couple hills today, significantly flatter than yesterday!

 Today's Stats:

Distance: 18.96 km 
Elevation Gain: 716 m 
Weather: 20 deg threatening storm that kindly held off till we were done ;)
Duration: 4h 25 min
Avg Pace: 14:00

Bruce Trail: Caledon Day 1

The 360 degree views of fall colours were stunning

What an incredible day!   Hiking w Janie and Braulio today.  Fun game of under / over / through with the stiles - lol I'd never really realized there was a pass through for critters (or people who don't want to climb lol) on some of them before.  Stunning weather, amazing fall leaves, and good friends - what more can you ask?   Well - the pub afterwards would've been nice but alas did not have food.  Fail!

Also tried poles for the first time on this hike - was truly amazed by the difference they made once I got the hang of them.   There's the lazy pole swing (like 3 steps to every pole movement) which honestly doesn't do much but does help prevent fat hands, but the one for one pole-to-stride match going up or down hills?   That adds a ton of speed and power on the down and helps conserve energy and strength on the ups.   Today had a LOT of downs and ups so definitely got to practice that a fair bit.   Someday I am 100% going to get overconfident with these and either stab myself horribly in the foot or wipe out in a big way, but fortunately today was not that day ;)

Stats:
Distance: 27.5 km 
Elevation Gain: 843 m 
Weather: 20 deg and sunny :)
Duration: 7h 2 min
Avg Pace: 14:10

The traditional approach...

...and an alternate solution ;)

BT: Caledon Pre-Hike

You can't actually see this from the BT, but it's a very short detour ;)

So we're doing the E2E over the weekend, but we can't park at the *actual* end, so I committed to doing a quick pre-hike to knock off the section between the final parking and the end of the section.   Since it was short, I also did the detour to see the Badlands - which I haven't seen since they protected them (last time I was here, we were definitely able to hike all over the rocks and nobody thought anything of it.   That was.... longer ago than I care to admit ;)

Mini-stats:

Distance: 4.72km
Elevation gain: 110m