With the arrival of snow the Tuesday Trompers have gone onto their usual winter schedule of alternating between hiking the Maitland Woods trail and the Sifto/GART trails. December 6th is scheduled for the Sifto loop and December 13th the Maitland Woods.  However if conditions change the hike may be atmore…

That was quite a change on Sunday November 12th with Winter’s arrival.  In the Clinton area there was about six inches of snow that caused many shrubs , and cedars to hang down over the trails.  The challenge was to hike the trails without getting too much snow down themore…

On November 8th 20 Tuesday Trompers enjoyed a sunny morning hike on the Bannockburn Conservation Area trails, where we could hike without worrying about hunters shooting deer. In that afternoon and in the Maitland Woods and on Wednesday morning on the Mavis trail there were quite a few trees downmore…

The “Mindfulness in Nature” walk on October 29th had a surprise, as it started off with an unexpected bang!  The group had just started to walk slowly, paying attention to the present moment when two Canada geese hunters at the edge of the Maitland River fired at some geese very nearmore…

On October 22nd was a great warm sunny day for hikers and the Bad thing runners.  While hiking on the Hullett trails I saw some cabbage white butterflies and yellow clouded sulphur butterflies enjoying one of the few flowers still in bloom, a spotted knapweed, which unfortunately is an alienmore…

The weekend  of October 15th and 16th was a great  one for hiking with good weather and splendid fall colours, – the best they have been for several years.  It was also a very busy one on the local trails. On Saturday about 30 hikers from Southern Ontario were hikingmore…

Often when I am out on a trail I see something new, even when I have been on the trail many times before.  On a recent hike on the Lobb trail I spotted two birds on the Maitland river which turned out to be Greater yellowlegs- a new species tomore…