Mon, Aug 6 2012 - Bruce Trail Series - Part 4 ~ 20 km Rockway Falls to Jordan Village (View Original Event Details)
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A great group of adventurers hiked a total of about 16.5 km on this event. The distance turned out to be shorter than the original estimate of 20 km because a) we skipped Louth side trail (due to hunger pains..) and b) we could not advance to Lake Ontario on the Twenty Mile Creek trail. We discovered that the Twenty Mile Creek trail access that was described on Tourism Niagara website is no longer available. The staircase has been removed and the access closed. We also discovered that the trail does not go to Lake Ontario (unless one wanted to walk on the road, which we did not want to do). Unfortunately that also meant no Harbour winery and no cheese factory visit.
To get more hiking in after lunch, we found out the Twenty Mile Creek access heading up to Balls Falls. After pausing at one of the rapids part way up, and given the time of day, we decided not to head all the way to the Balls Falls and instead returned to our cars for the trip home... arriving back at carpool around 7 PM.
Everyone enjoyed their lunch and drinks at zooma zooma cafe in picturesque village of Jordan even though we had to wait a bit longer for our food, as we managed to hit the peak lunch period (around1:30 PM!... who knew...).
The weather turned out to be cool enough to make for comfortable hiking. It was a great day all around, with great group of folks.
Great big thank you to Heather, Miriam and Galina for driving.
$12 in voluntary donations were collected with thanks!
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