BT Hike Event - Iroquoia Section: Part 4 Event Cache

Event is on
Saturday

Goal: To hike the last 23km of the Iroquoia section of the Bruce Trail. The Iroquoia section is a total of 120.8km in length.

This is the 11th 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 120.8km long and we will be hiking the last 23km of it to complete this section of the Bruce Trail.

For future hikes, see the schedule listed at the end of the event listing. We plan on doing about 2 or 3 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 7 hours to complete, so we should be done around 4:00pm. 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 98.5km mark (Edition 26 of Bruce Trail guide) of the Iroquoia section of the Bruce Trail behind the Kilbride School at Optimist Park. We plan to start hiking around 9:15am.

Destination is the 120.8km mark (Edition 26 of Bruce Trail guide) of the Iroquoia section of the Bruce Trail which is where Applyeby Line goes under the 401 (N43° 30.249 W79° 57.384).

Parking: Beginning: Parking lot behind the Kilbride School at Optimist Park has room for about 20 cars. End: There is no parking allowed anywhere along the roads here. Only places to park would be at Kelso (enter from Tremaine) or at Hilton Falls both of which are $6.25 per person and the gates close at 5pm. Bruce Trail memberships no longer allow you to get in for free. I could not find definite information on their web site, but when Kelso becomes Glen Eden then parking\entrance to Kelso\Glen Eden is free and the gates are usually open longer during ski season (if someone finds out, let me know and I will update the information here). Another option is to park at one of the 2 parking lots on 6th Line (N43 32.199 W79 58.708) which is about a 5km walk north of the end point. Another possible suggestion is to park on Campbellville Ave (N43 29.794 W79 58.198) near where it goes under the 401. This is 1 block (1.7km) west of the end point of the hike (Note that Halton Region does have a 3 hr roadside parking limit).
Hopefully some people will park at the end and carpool back to the starting point both before and 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.
It might be wise to stash some supplies at certain locations of your choice along the trail so that you don't have to carry everything with you.

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'
Backup Tracker - http://clients.teksavvy.com/~gregorypleau/

Badges: Those of us that complete this hike along with the other 3 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.