So, if I ever get to Squidley’s house on Mr. Bikey, I’ll put the knobbies on. As can be seen from the hot pink line in the picture (below), I discovered a trail linking Filman Road with… um… Filman Road. Okay, so my sense of discovery is a little bit tarnished, but it was fun (if by “fun” you mean “sweating, heaving, panting death”). It’s a little bit steep uphill at times, with lots of loose or not-so-loose sharp rocks.
The really cool part is that it links up to Bruce Trail via a nifty highway bridge (green line). I went as far as the line shows, and then I figured I would be late getting back here for office hours this morning. However, it took me 40 minutes to get there, and only about 10 or 12 to get back. My bike computer says I went about 10 miles (16.1 Kanadian). That feels lame, except for how hard I worked to get up the stupid hill (Filman Trail).
Notes:
1. There’s a stupid short way steep section at the South end of Filman trail that I couldn’t climb, and I couldn’t descend (tried twice; ungracefully biffed it twice). Stupid trail.
2. I saw much wildlife, including a mole or something, a chipmunk, a hunting kitty, and a deer. The deer was about 10-15m off Bruce Trail in the bush, eating the, um, bush. He was a young buck, with antlers just about to fork, all covered with fuzz, about as long as his ears. He didn’t seem scared of me, although he watched me for a while.
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