For our 2nd adventure of the long weekend, 'Bent and I drove a short distance to the Humber Valley with the plan of finding some of Coach LD's orienteering controls. It took us a while to find a place where it appeared legal to park. The police were towing cars away from the edge of Palgrave Forest yesterday. They seem to take a dim view of parking along a road near a closed parking lot so we went to the Castlederg entrance to the Humber Valley Trail, knowing we might not end up spending much time orienteering after all.
That was just as well, given that one of us, who shall remain nameless, had carefully packed his map case, compass and pen but left his map and instructions on the kitchen table. I had mine but it's more fun when we're both navigating. Anyway, we had a long hike to Duffy's Lane so it didn't matter much. Unbelievably, I turned my right ankle within 10 m of the start on flat trail with a small root sticking up. Although it's my right heel that's injured right now, my left ankle is the one that usually turns. I didn't go over too far; I'll call it a 2 out of 10. Then it started to turn again on a small root late in the hike - just a 1/10. I had Barefoot Science insoles in a shoe with a pronounced arch and I think it was just too much force pushing my ankle to the outside.
Aside from that, it was a beautiful hike. We saw our first two trilliums of the season although they're still not out in great numbers. Everyone was polite. We had a couple of nice, distanced conversations with strangers. One was O-vangelism after a fellow noticed my map. He'd orienteered as a child and was interested in getting back to it so I shared some info. We had a longer chat with a kindergarten teacher, Ruthie Sloane (?), who is training for a 100K race.
When we got to the Duffy's Lane parking lot, we decided to turn back and return another day when we both had our maps. Even though we didn't do the orienteering, it was great to be out on different trails!