S2.Ep4 “Beaver Valley” Hiking The Bruce Trail End to End : Up the West Side of the Great Valley

Get back on trail with the fourth episode of Season Two : End to End Hiking The Bruce Trail, A Journey Across Ontario.
"Beaver Valley"

It was a beautiful day in the valley – snow still lingered and the ground was muddy after a couple of days of rain. The ski slopes were still active – during ski season the trail is rerouted around the Beaver Valley Ski Club, where the trail normally travels in the summer. We took the Valley Crossover Trail past Wodehouse Creek and the Beaver River, and up along the ski hills on the Kimberley Forest Side Trail, and back onto the Bruce Trail.
It went from cold to warm to cold again depending on where you were on the trail that day and if the sun was out. With wet feet in the snow we had to keep moving.
We hiked through the Wodehouse Karst area and came upon a ranging floodwater creek churning down the hillside – something that would normally be a trickle of water. The Beaver River below swelled with the runoff coming in from all sides.
The trail led to some beautiful valley vistas, through fields just thinking about waking up as winter slowly let go of it’s hold on the land. The winds blew strong across the fields up high in the valley.
The hiking was challenging – and exhausting – trudging through the crumbling snow and muck – but the day was glorious and the hiking grand. We made it to what felt like the mouth of the Beaver Valley – or maybe we still had another day to go to finish “The Beast”. Yes, we still had one more day to go.

Map Distance : 23.6 km / Start Road 30 : km 78.9 / End Sideroad 22C : km 102.5
This episode features the song “When Will You Learn?” from the album “Vitality” out now and available at stevewelchontario.com and on all major platforms.
Also featured is the song “Poor Creative Man” performed by "Atlas" : Steve Welch, Kenny Phelps, Josh Gabriel, Ryan Allen Dave Rozell and Fijl on drums, recorded at Turtleshell Studio in Breslau Ontario.
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