First report from the trail ...

So, here's the day 1 report ... We got up sort of on time and traveled from Milton to St. Catherines where we dropped off Gary's Rav 4 at approx 30 km into the hike. We then proceeded to the Southern Terminus Cairn. We started our adventure at precisely (GDT ... Gary and Don Time - which means not very precise at all) 11:00 AM! Yup, no point in getting all crazy about this. We had a leisurely morning, a coffee, filled our camelbacks with Nuun, enjoyed a Tim Horton's bacon/egg/muffin thing (and some people will totally get the importance of this ritual ;-), and we were off.



The hike went well! We had good weather - not too hot, not to cold! It was a bit windy but overall very good hiking conditions! Part of the hike was a bit urban but considering the population density they hide the trail very well!

One of the highlights was an abandoned section of the Welland canal. Pretty interesting, historical, and amazing considering when this was built!

We had a great lunch of Gary's veggie burritos (recipe to be shared later ... If Gary can be convinced to give it up).



We ultimately hiked around Brock university and ended up at the dropped car at approx 5:30. 6.5 hours total time - counting a lunch break so were averaging just under 5 kph which was the upper end of our anticipated speed range. Yay us!

We drove to Ralph and Sue's place in St. Catherines, cleaned up, had supper, and then went out on the town. Pub #1 in the books! The Niagara Wine Festival was on and while we didn't partake in that per se we went to a lovely pub called the Merchant Ale House and had some surpisingly good house micro-brewed ales. Things carried on from there and pleading the fifth (get used to it), we will jump ahead to Sunday ...