A couple of weeks ago  the trails have been very slippery with wet earth covered by wet leaves, and I saw many skid marks,- some made by me.  On my Saturday hike on Oct 30th, although proceeding with great caution, I slowly fell, landing without injury on my elbows.  Atmore…

Many of the local hikers will have met me and my dog Chewy, a Shih Tzu who has walked the local trails nearly every day for most of the last 13 years. He died on October 28th aged 15 (I got him when he was two years old). He wasmore…

Some birds are now migrating through our area.  I saw a few White throated sparrows on the Front road trail on Monday October 18th.  I have also noticed very large flocks of gulls (probably around 1000) in some fields.  Canada Geese are starting their practice flights.  I am still tryingmore…

With the rain in the past week I was unable to cross the culverts on the Clinton Conservation Area trail, but found no problems on the trails near the Maitland river.  There continue to be many interesting mushrooms to see along the trails. There were two red ones, which Imore…

On Friday October 1st I joined lots of volunteers to help the Nature Conservancy plant about 300 trees on their Ashton Potter property at Maitland Line. The species included Swamp White Oak, Bur Oak, Silver Maple, Red Maple, Eastern Hemlock, Kentucky Coffee Tree and Honey Locust.  The Nature Conservancy hasmore…

The past week was the second time in a month that there has been a significant number of branches and trees down across the trail, this time due to at least 3 inches of rain and some strong wind gusts. When you read this, most or all will have beenmore…

I was thinking on my Monday hike that there was little of special interest during the week.  However, on my hike from B. Edgar bridge (Boundary Bridge) to River Line I realized that there were many interesting sights just on that 2 ½ km part of the Maitland trail.  Theremore…

Although the big damage from Tuesday’s August 7th storm was north of the Maitland trail, there were a lot of branches down on the section from River Line to Cherrydale road, though most were easy to clear off the trail except for  a significant windfall at about 25.5 km inmore…

From Monday August 30th to Thursday September 2nd  I was staying at Tobermory and exploring a little bit of the Bruce Trail.  The big difference about hiking there was that virtually everywhere it is paid parking from $3 an hour for a maximum of 3 hours in town, $11.90 inmore…