The Elgin Trail runs 41 km from Port Stanley on Lake Erie to Southdel Bourne, following Kettle Creek and Dodds Creek, along some country roads for several kilometres, and then goes over the 401 and crosses a forest near the Green Lane landfill site. The trail is well marked with white blazes, but is not well-used, so it is overgrown at times.
This new series highlights the best hikes around the world, trails that we would someday like to hike on and enjoy. There are an assortment of caches along the Elgin trail commemorating these other trails.
The Lost City trek is an arduous but rewarding 4 to 5-day 46 km traverse through the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in northern Colombia. The trek offers a unique opportunity to connect with nature, to see the ancient ruins of a Pre-Columbian society, as well as to cross through the land of the Kogi tribes. These indigenous people live in traditional ways inside the Sierra Nevada reservation. Whoever called it the Lost City certainly did a great job naming it as it sounds so tantalizing and mysterious. Admittedly it is buried deep in the Colombian jungle and wasn’t rediscovered by outsiders until 1972. From an archaeological point of view, the site is clearly significant. The city is estimated to date back to 800 AD and to have had around 8000 inhabitants. You have to walk up 1200 moss-covered stone steps to reach the top.
Opa Norshley helped me with the hides and the listing. Hope you like these.
The cache is in a tree a short distance off the trail.