BT Hike Event - Iroquoia Section: Part 1 Event Cache

Event is on
Saturday

Goal: To hike the first 28.6km of the Iroquoia section of the Bruce Trail. The Iroquoia section is a total of 121.7km in length.

This is the 8th Bruce Trail hike in this series of BT events. We plan to continue with the Iroquoia section. The total distance of the Iroquoia section is 121.7km long and we will be hiking the first 28.6km of it to start this section of the Bruce Trail.

For future hikes, see the schedule linked at the end of the listing. We plan on doing about 2 to 4 hikes a year in order to complete my goal of finishing the entire Bruce Trail on my 50th birthday.

I estimate that the entire hike will take about 9.5 hours to complete, so we should be done around 6:30pm. This is at a moderate 3km\h pace.

If you can't make the entire hike, maybe join us for part of it atleast. You can always drop out along the way if you feel it's too difficult or too long.

Meet at 9:00am at the posted coordinates, which is the 0km mark of the Iroquoia section of the Bruce Trail which is on the west side of the pedestrian bridge over Forty Mile Creek.. We plan to start hiking around 9:15am.

Destination is the 28.6km mark (Edition 25 of Bruce Trail guide) of the Iroquoia section of the Bruce Trail which is where the main trail meets the Greenhill Avenue Access Trail (N43° 13.304 W79° 48.919)

Parking: Beginning: Bruce Trail guide indicates some road side parking near the end and also 5-6 cars on Ridge Road, at the end of the Beamer Falls Acccess Trail which is about 1.3km past the end point of the hike. Another possibility is Grimsby Lions Community Pool (in Coronation Park) which is probably where I will park. End: West end of Greenhill Avenue at Cortina Crescent has room for about 10 cars.
Hopefully some people will park at the end and carpool back to the starting point both before and after the hike. I plan on parking at the beginning so I will need a ride back to my car after the hike.

What you should bring: Water and other drinks. Food for lunch, dinner and snacks. GPS. Maps. Camera. Cell Phone. First Aid Kit. Advil/Tylenol.

Track our progress as we hike the trail. Don't feel up for the hike, then join us by watching our progress as we go along. Screen will update couple of minutes, but our progress will be updated every hour or so. Thanks to northerpenguin for setting this up.
Google Maps - http://www.torontogeocaching.com/bthike/
Latitude - bthike@gmail.com <--add this email as a 'friend'

Badges: Those of us that complete this hike along with the future hikes in the Iroquoia section (Hikes will be scheduled to finish before Nov 21, 2010) will qualify for the Iroquoia End To End badge for hiking the entire Iroquoia Section of the Bruce Trail. For more information and to obtain a badge, see this Iroquoia Bruce Trail Club link.

Total distance hiked to date: 256.2km
Total distance remaining to hike: 638.9km
% of trail completed: 28.6%