Well, Cathy and I had an excellent adventure this morning!! Here is my summary of it, in case anyone cares! And so Elizabeth can see what she missed!! Cathy, feel free to add in your comments!
Our one hour trail run turned into a two hour outing. We decided to go in the opposite direction than we usually do after running from the Bleasdell Boulder because we didn't know what was down there. So we turned left after coming down that hill and ran to the end of the rail bed and came out on Lock Road. So we turned around and ran back and took a path that went off the rail bed. Jumped a little fence that was falling down, climbed this HUGE hill (it made the ATB hill look like an ant hill!) :shock:
and then we proceeded to wander around in the woods trying to find our way out. Kept coming to fences with NO TRESPASSING SIGNS or raging rivers. Finally.... after wandering for half an hour over hill and dale, we turned around and took the way out that we took in (with another little side trip!). We knew where we wanted to go but just couldn't find how to get there. At one point we stood on top of a hill, and I could see across the Trent River to the water tower that is a block from my house, so we weren't lost. But we were starting to feel like we were never going to get out of there!
I told Cathy that at the two hour point, I was phoning my neighbour who works for the Rescue Control Centre on the base so he could launch the Search and Rescue to come and find us!! Eventually we found an alternate route back down that big hill where we encountered this :shock:
So we said, what the heck, and swam across the water hole. Not really - we managed to make our way through the trees along the edges and jump across a shallow area. Sorry Sandy - we didn't even get our feet wet!
We made our way back to the Bleasdell Boulder (our big tourist attraction) where we looked at little chickadees.
And out of the woods on the more sedate trail than we had spent the previous hour!
It was a lot of fun and it felt like when we were kids and we used to go out and play in the woods all day. I was starting to feel like I WAS going to be out there ALL day!
Trail running -- just so much fun!!
