April 10, 2024 | 8:30 PM | Virtual Zoom meeting link will be sent to registrants in advance. April 13, 2024 | In person (time and location to be determined based on registration number.) Over the past several months, the MTA Board of Directors has reviewed its board and association governancemore…
Tail Talk 302 March 6th 2024
The Goderich Coldest night of the Year fundraiser for the homeless was successful with 291 walkers and hikers with 98% of the goal of $130,000 raised as of March 6th. The overall Canadian total was 104% of the aim of $13 million. Thanks to all the walkers, volunteers and supporters. more…
Annual MTA Camino – September 21-22, 2024 Registration will GO LIVE on Saturday, May 18th!
New for 2024: Kids 17 & under hike for FREE and FREE PARKING for participants! The Maitland Trail Association’s annual El Camino hike event is scheduled for September 21-22, 2024. Participants are invited to hike the entire 52-kilometre Maitland Trail from Auburn to Goderich over two days, or they canmore…
The Bayfield River Valley Trail Association (BRVTA) is celebrating UN International Day of Forests with an evening at the Bayfield Town Hall, Tuesday March 19 at 7:00 pm
The BRVTA is delighted that Lambton area naturalist and author Larry Cornelis will be making a presentation. He is a Horticulturist, Naturalist and Ecological Restoration Consultant, vice-chair of Ontario Nativescapes, a conservation/ecological restoration non-profit organization which has done thousands of acres of habitat restoration work in Southern Ontario specializing inmore…
Trail Talk 301 February 28th 2024
When I decided to hike on the Maitland Trail for our team’s coldest night of the year hike, the section in from 80918 Sharpes Creek Line was in great shape with no snow, except for a little bit on snowdrift hill. How things have changed since then. On Friday Feb16thmore…
Trail Talk 300 – February 21st 2024
This is my 300th Trail Talk, which I think is a good time to review Trail Talk’s history. Wendy Hoernig started Trail Talk in 1999 where it was published in the biweekly Focus. These included outing descriptions and also showed her enthusiasm for hiking, as an example, “One of the bestmore…
Trail Talk 299 February 14th 2024
The hike at the Falls Reserve Conservation area on February 4th was quite spectacular with frost on many plants making interesting patterns. I posted several photos from that hike on the Maitland Trail Facebook page. The trails were mostly bare, with only a few snow covered parts. The Hullett Sugarmore…
Trail Talk 298 February 7th 2024
On my Friday morning hike I started out in some rain and finished it seeing sunshine and a rainbow. The rain and mild weather has resulted in very high water levels on both the Bayfield and Maitland rivers. As of Jan 31st the rivers are slowly getting lower. Despite themore…
