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Saturday Jan 19, 2008 #
Snowshoeing 56:26 [3] 4.6 km (12:16 / km)
ahr:115 max:139 slept:7.2 shoes: Atlas 1025
Rideau Trail kilometres 63.5-66.6
Loughborough township
Last night, while mentally preparing for the 4h+ return trip from Frontenac Park trail centre to Caldwell Creek, I had terrifying visions of my knee giving up that final time, 8 kilometres in to the woods, 200k from home, M off the Baja coast and jd all alone. There is no way it's worth the risk. Now I must come up with a strategy to complete that most isolated portion of the Rideau Trail.
Instead, I chose two adventures that just happen to be near former railways.
The morning hike began from midway along Hidden Valley Road. This segment of the trail is on road or on private property, three stiles in each direction. I headed east on Hidden Valley Road and then south on private land, the valley right after the farm house is very dangerous. For the Ottawa bound hiker, the journey is the more dangerous downhill.
I turned back at the intersection with the ex-Smiths Falls subdivision (CNR) / Cataraqui Trail / Trans Canada Trail. For once, those dogs weren't home.
Retracing my steps, I passed my starting place, down Hidden Valley, then north on Perth Road until I got to the Rideau Trail's single-vehicle parking spot and there I took off my snowshoes. Some of that trail parallels the highway off road.
I did not log the walk back to the start.
Loughborough township
Last night, while mentally preparing for the 4h+ return trip from Frontenac Park trail centre to Caldwell Creek, I had terrifying visions of my knee giving up that final time, 8 kilometres in to the woods, 200k from home, M off the Baja coast and jd all alone. There is no way it's worth the risk. Now I must come up with a strategy to complete that most isolated portion of the Rideau Trail.
Instead, I chose two adventures that just happen to be near former railways.
The morning hike began from midway along Hidden Valley Road. This segment of the trail is on road or on private property, three stiles in each direction. I headed east on Hidden Valley Road and then south on private land, the valley right after the farm house is very dangerous. For the Ottawa bound hiker, the journey is the more dangerous downhill.
I turned back at the intersection with the ex-Smiths Falls subdivision (CNR) / Cataraqui Trail / Trans Canada Trail. For once, those dogs weren't home.
Retracing my steps, I passed my starting place, down Hidden Valley, then north on Perth Road until I got to the Rideau Trail's single-vehicle parking spot and there I took off my snowshoes. Some of that trail parallels the highway off road.
I did not log the walk back to the start.
Snowshoeing 1:58:51 [2] 10.5 km (11:19 / km)
ahr:110 max:138 rhr:39 shoes: Atlas 1025
Rideau Trail kilometres 21.3-25.2
Loughborough township
This pace is faster only because the adventure was all on flat road, road allowance or rail bed. I began at the five corners of Forest, Murton and Murvale roads and headed south on the road allowance which is actually the town line between Loughborough and Portland. At Orser Road, I went east all the way to Babcock which felt like forever.
When I began the Rideau Trail snowshoe mission, the routing of the trail was only half that distance along Orser before heading south.
Even though I was zonked by the time I got back on the town-line road allowance, I could not resist following the hydro-corridor trail west over to the Kick & Push (Kingston & Pembroke) rail bed.
I followed the K&P north, clearly passing a siding to the Cataraqui transformer station, a siding which I'm certain would not show on a photograph today, crossing Murton Road, then up to curve away from Forest Road, backtrack to Murton and take the road back to my start.
It may be tough walking tomorrow.
Loughborough township
This pace is faster only because the adventure was all on flat road, road allowance or rail bed. I began at the five corners of Forest, Murton and Murvale roads and headed south on the road allowance which is actually the town line between Loughborough and Portland. At Orser Road, I went east all the way to Babcock which felt like forever.
When I began the Rideau Trail snowshoe mission, the routing of the trail was only half that distance along Orser before heading south.
Even though I was zonked by the time I got back on the town-line road allowance, I could not resist following the hydro-corridor trail west over to the Kick & Push (Kingston & Pembroke) rail bed.
I followed the K&P north, clearly passing a siding to the Cataraqui transformer station, a siding which I'm certain would not show on a photograph today, crossing Murton Road, then up to curve away from Forest Road, backtrack to Murton and take the road back to my start.
It may be tough walking tomorrow.