BT Hike Event - Blue Mountains: Part 1 Event Cache

Event is on
Easter Friday

Goal: To hike the first 36km of the Blue Mountains section of the Bruce Trail. The Blue Mountains section is a total of 66km in length.

This is the 12th Bruce Trail hike in this series of BT events. We plan to continue with the Blue Mountains section. The total distance of the Blue Mountains section is 66km long and we will be hiking the first 36km of it to start 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 10 hours to complete, so we should be done around 7:00pm. This is at a moderate 3.5km\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 0.0km mark (Edition 26 of Bruce Trail guide) of the Blue Mountains section of the Bruce Trail which is at the corner of Centre Rd and Mulmur Nottawasaga Townline. We plan to start hiking around 9:15am.

Destination is the 36km mark (Edition 26 of Bruce Trail guide) of the Blue Mountains section of the Bruce Trail which is along County Rd 91 where the main trail meets the Duntroon View Side Trail (N44° 23.363 W80° 14.051).

Parking: Beginning: The best place to park near the beginning is about 550m east of the start point of the hike in front of the cemetery (N44 16.121 W80 09.408 - lots of room to pull safely off of the road) on Mulmur Nottawasaga Townline. End: There is a parking area (N44 23.334 W80 14.204) on the north side of Country Rd 91 (Duntroon Sideroad), about 200m past the end point of the hike.
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 end point so I will need a ride to the beginning before the hike. It's about a 20 minute drive from the end point to the start point.

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'

Badges: Those of us that complete this hike along with the other hike in the Blue Mountains section will qualify for the Blue Mountains End To End badge for hiking the entire Blue Mountains Section of the Bruce Trail. For more information and to obtain a badge, see this Blue Mountains Bruce Trail Club link (bottom right)..