Lost In The Forest

Lost In The Forest

by Sleaford

Nature Places & Travel

Season 1

Kolapore Highlands

The Kolapore Wilderness Trails consist of approximately 50 kilometres of marked trails that are managed for cross-country skiing in the winter and biking and hiking in the summer. Below is a quote from the Kolapore website.In winter the trails are intended only for cross-country skiing; please no walking, snowshoeing or biking, and leave your dog at home.The trails are located in a rugged, semi-wilderness area along the Niagara Escarpment in The Blue Mountains, about 20 km southwest of Collingwood. The trails are carefully blazed with orange triangle blazes, but the network is complex, so a map is strongly recommended.Where we parked at the Bottling plant on Osprey townline https://www.trailforks.com/poi/54329/The area website https://www.kolaporetrails.org

Kimberley Forest

This is the link on Trail Forks, this is a ski hill https://www.trailforks.com/region/kimberley-1525096491/?activitytype=1&z=12.7&lat=44.36365&lon=-80.54474It seems there are a lot of winter lodges that sit empty in the summer. Typical Bruce Trails not so hard as just rocks everywhere. Navigation was okay but the bugs were tough. I do think this place would be a lot of fun on a dry summer evening. Rain makes for hard trails, slippy steep up hills.

Sault Ste Marie Hiawatha Trails

The Soo is 8 hours north of Toronto it is trying to be the new Mountain Bike Capital of North America. All the jokes aside it has had a huge amount of money pumped into it and it has a good chance of becoming a real mountain town. The local Mountain Bike Club https://www.saultcyclingclub.ca has done a lot of work to maintain and keep trails running. They seem to have a welcoming friendly feel. Our trip was slightly marked by Jessica having a fairly bad crash and like a trooper managed to get out of the trails and back to the car. She sadly is now in plaster. https://www.trailforks.com/region/sault-ste-marie/trails/

Glenelg Klondike Grey Forest

Glenelg Klondyke is a 398-acre managed forest. Mixed hardwood and conifers, quite hilly and loose rock underfoot. A small lake can be viewed that is quite special, with a lot of butterflies, dragonflies and other insects, abundant bird and plant life, and lots of mushrooms, but on this day they were quite old. There is the Glenelg Nordic Ski Club and I would think this would be a cool place to Fatbike in the winter. Side note this land was farmed from 1868 until 1962. The forest you see now has grown up since the early 1960s managed by the Corporation of Grey County. Tick Key here https://tickkey.com Trail parking is here https://www.trailforks.com/poi/14998/

Walden Mountain Bike Trails near Sudbury

Walden Trails Sudbury Ontario is a place built by mountain bikers for mountain bikers. This is a stop-off point on our way to the Soo, it is fair to say you could do a weekend here and if combined with the trails in the Soo you could make a long weekend of it. 15k of tails over 350 acres of land, with blueberries earlier than anywhere else. https://www.waldenmbc.ca/our-trails

Brant Tract Paisley Ontario Canada

Brant Tract near Paisley. A great way to spend a couple of hours. Some Pheasant Backs and an Ice cream store called Magic Ice Cream Shop https://www.themagicicecreamshoppe.com https://www.trailforks.com/region/brant-tract/?activitytype=1&z=13.4&lat=44.24704&lon=-81.21699 Also to explain the word TractA tract of land pertains to an identifiable portion of land. Basically, a land tract is bordered by geographical formations; this makes the tract easy to portray and discuss. For instance, if an identified land area is surrounded by a river on one side, and has gently sloping hills before being bounded by high mountains on the other side, the tract of land could be easily recognized by the local inhabitants as the tract of land between the river and steep mountains.

Woodend Conservation Area Niagara on the Lake Mountain Bike Trails

Today we went for an easy ride that ended up not being quite as simple as we thought. We parked here https://www.trailforks.com/poi/81213/ The Park website is here https://www.trailforks.com/region/firemen-s-park-40369/ The other mountain bike trails off the Bruce heading towards the falls are here https://www.trailforks.com/region/firemen-s-park-40369/ We talk about the route finding on the Bruce, discuss the lack of wild edibles on the Bruce, find a shoe tree and discover what we know already, don't underestimate any rides on the Bruce Trail https://brucetrail.org

Ravenshoe near Keswick Ontario

I wish we had some artwork of a Raven in shoes. Ravenshoe also known as Brown Hill Tract is an hour North of the city, one side is flat and rooty and the other has small rolling hills, it is easy to spend a few hours here. It is one of the best places to Fatbike. We found oyster mushrooms here today, we cooked and ate them when we got home.https://www.trailforks.com/region/york-regional-forest-brown-hill-tract/?activitytype=1&z=14.3&lat=44.20949&lon=-79.36868 Also, we went to https://www.facebook.com/thecoolestlittleicecreamshop/ Please like if you get a chance it helps.

Gord Harry Trail, Quarry's and Limestone Hill, all around Port Colborne

Today we did a bit of the Gord Harry Trail but found a cool quarry to ride around, rock slabs and loads of potential, We then found a way into Port Colborne, use it or lose it and you know what it might go anyway.We recorded this in the car in the rain so you may hear some noises.https://npca.ca/parks-recreation/conservation-areas/gord-harry-trailhttps://www.trailforks.com/region/limestone-hill-35801/

Awenda Provincial Park

Morel hunting in the woods and riding lost trails.Awenda is an area I have looked at on the map. We did spend some time on trails in the area during the winter on Fat Bikes.The Tranche Loop is a bushwhack, but there is a sweet downhill at the end, and you feel miles from everywhere.I wish someone would take this trail on, I think we will do some trail work next time we are up.https://www.trailforks.com/region/awenda-provincial-park/?activitytype=1&z=11.6&lat=44.83492&lon=-79.99216We parked at the baseball field.

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