Journal Entries

Refuge Le Mésangeai on Montagne Noire

My first hike with @toeslad since getting off the long trail in September. https://outsideways.com/journals/middle-section-hike-of-the-vermont-long-trail/

That was a busy fall!

#saintdonat #lanaudiere

Hiking at Chute à Bull with Brienne. A short fall hike.

#parcsregionauxmatawinie #lanaudiere

As per tradition, a visit to Nova Scotia requires a hike at Gaff Point.

#novascotia

One of my favorite parts of my week-long visit with my parents is going for short hikes with my mom @karentogo she's a great hiking companion!

This is a trail really close to their house - Indian Path Commons.

#novascotia

Seeking some solace in the woods behind my parent's house on a sad, sad day.

https://renee.tougas.net/blog/krista/

Ok, so this is not in the woods, but we're about to hike up the"mountain" you see in the background - Montreal's iconic Mont Royal.

My cousin (same age as my kids) is visiting us for Thanksgiving and we're doing the touristy stuff with her.

To reach this Rogart Mountain trail, Google maps directed me down Kemptown Road, a dirt road which wouldn't have been my first choice. But it turned out for the best. Good driving conditions and en route passed a parking lot with info sign for the remote 13K wilderness part of the Gully Lake Trail system - where I will hike another day!! https://www.sugarmoon.ca/hike/trail-maps/

If you're a waterfalls chaser this falls would be disappointing - although in a rainy season it would be a bit more impressive. Jane's Falls: "a thin falls on a wide grand rock wall. Named for Jane (Matheson) MacDonald who emigrated from Rogart, Scotland by 1818."

Rogart Mountain hike: trailhead is at Sugar Moon Farm (https://www.sugarmoon.ca/hike/) near Earltown, NS. Of the three seasons I've trekked this trail - springtime without leaves, winter with snowshoes - I think this was my favourite. A mix of colourful foliage and organic scent of fallen leaves.

Bushwhacked our way around many rootball clumps and trees criss-crossed everywhere. There's a lot of cleanup here for those volunteers who maintain this Cape George trail, a job which will certainly carry on into next year.