Day 2 - Nice Rack !!!!!

Ok, now get your heads out of the gutter.....we actually were about 30 m from a large buck in the afternoon today.

Our second day of hiking was quite a learning experience for us. We got a late start after leaving from my house in Milton in the morning, set the cars 36 km apart and both of us ran into some foot issues....we ended up finishing at about 7 pm, in the dark, just before we were forced to dig through our packs and find our flashlights. This lead to much reconsideration of our goals and options.

We started this journey inspired by two of our friends - This summer Charlotte set the record for this 900 km trail by running it in 13 days, 10 hours and just recently Henri (let's just say he's a bit older than even me) covered the distance with 18 x 50 km days. Our 36 km day (that whipped both of us) seemed paltry by comparison. Over a couple of beers at the bar that night, we decided that for the near future we should plan 20-25 km segments so that we can enjoy the time, stop for photos, eat a leisurely lunch and take side trips when desired. This will allow us to possibly work our way up to longer hikes, but currently we are hiking at 5 kph and averaging 4 or less kph overall.

While it was still light out, we saw several awesome waterfalls:

Decew Falls at Morningstar Mill

Ball's Falls from the north side

We were very tired at the end of the day, got to the hotel in Jordan at about 8 and while we did have dinner and drinks in the bar, had an early night of it to get ready for the next day......

Stumbling the Bruce 1.1

We were originally going to have our next weekend hiking in mid Dec but trying to salvage some dignity and make up for Day #2 we decided to insert a Special Edition hike. Through a whole bunch of conversations like "I'll have my people call your people!" we managed, at great personal sacrifice, to arrange for a special edition 3 day weekend (and we hope we actually hike more than one of those three days ;-) in the near future.

Our next hike is scheduled for October 24th, 25th, 26th (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday). We are starting about 30k in (In St. Catherines) and hope to knock off about 90 to 100 km over the 3 days). I have no idea where that will have us end, but nonetheless it should be fun!

If anyone want to join in, let us know. We realize that weekdays aren't too good for most people but this was one of the more convenient ways for us both to have free time at the same time.

So, stay tuned and keep in touch ...