S1.Ep19 "Mystery In The Blue Mountains" Season Finale - Half Way! Hiking The Bruce Trail End To End

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Season 1, Episode 19 : “Mystery In The Blue Mountains” Season Finale
Murder on the trail? A slip and fall? Or did someone forget their lunch?
Tune in to find out as we reach the half way point of our 900 km 550 mile journey across Ontario - marking the thrilling end of season one on this brisk day in November.
Hiking through the majestic Blue Mountains overlooking the spectacular Nottawasaga Bay, part of great Lake Huron, we start the day at the Blue Mountain Ski resort parking lot and head along the ridge as the sun hung tight to the horizon and a light early snowfall painted the land white but for the trees and babbling brooks cascading down the slope.
At some point on the ridgeline that overlooked the bay we reached the end of the Blue Mountains Section of the Bruce Trail and entered the Beaver Valley Section – and continued on the ridge until we reached the Len Gertler Memorial Loree Forest.
After passing through a grand valley and up to and fantastic overlook we descended again then ascended and regained the ridge that led to the half way point of the trail, around 7km in to the Beaver Valley Section and nicely situated overlooking a serene forested hillside and the bay.
There is no official marker for the half way point, but we gave our best guess. When you reach a great milestone like this, it is an occasion to celebrate and that we did, with some sober reflection and appreciation of all we have experienced so far on the trail. After a brief ceremony we continued through the Loree forest and popped out to some rural November road walks, as we began our journey through the vast Beaver Valley, where we would spend the next 4-5 days of hiking before eventually returning back to Georgian Bay.
We came upon a great field of cows who greeted us curiously as the trail passed through their grazing field.
Somewhere in those field crossings we lost track of Murray as the beautiful scenes and the anticipation of reaching the end of our hike, and season one, kept pulling us forward – and on to Kolapore where we celebrated reaching our goal!

Tune in for Season Two as the thrilling tale continues. This epic journey where the great mystery reveals itself – and may even reveal the answer to the most important question of all - where’s Murray?
Season Two begins with weekly episodes starting Tuesday November 15th 2022 at 7pm as we trudge on to Tobermory and that beautiful cairn.
Thanks for watching and commenting and hiking.
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Thanks as always to the many people, past, present and future who work tirelessly to create, maintain and improve our trail systems. And thanks to the landowners who share their beautiful land. It is very much appreciated.

Details:
Bruce Trail Reference Guide Maps: 24-25
Total Bruce Trail Map Distance : 25 km
Music from the Episode:
“Divide and Conquer” from the album “Upland”
“Unseen” from the 2007 album “The Time Of My Life” (re-recorded at Turtleshell Studio)
“Rockwood” and “Sing” unreleased from the retro archives
Intro : “Things Are Happening” and “Alive Healthy and Free” from the album Upland
Outro : “Algorithm” from the album Upland
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