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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content"><channel><title>EveryTrail Feed</title><description/><link>http://www.everytrail.com</link><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 22:00:18 -0200</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 22:00:18 -0200</pubDate><image><url>http://www.everytrail.com/images/everytrail-logo.png</url><title>EveryTrail</title><link>http://www.everytrail.com</link><description>GPS travel community, geotagging, geotagged photos, Google Maps, GPS tracks, waypoints, coordinates</description><width>144</width><height>41</height></image><item><title><![CDATA[Upper Kananaskis Lake, North loop]]></title><description><![CDATA[Awesome snow conditions, and we lucked out and got the calmest day ever for this trip. Exceptional views from the upper portion of the loop, look out into the white, island pocked alpine expanse that is the upper lake. Breathtaking scenery at the west edge of the loop, that re-routes you down an ancient rockslide slope, and offers a glimpse into the Kanaskis river valley.  Just enough trip for one thermos full of hot cocoa. <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/2177199-photo1.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/2177200-photo2.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/2177202-photo3.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/2177205-photo5.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=903257</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=903257</link><pubDate>Mon, 6 Dec 2010 18:57:28 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transkekeko]]></title><description><![CDATA[Hier matin alors que la temp�rature oscillait autour de -33�C � 8h00 du matin, nous avons entrepris de faire le transkekeko. Cette randonn�e de 15 km offre des panoramas superbes et un d�paysement garanti. Cette randonn�e qui se fait relativement bien l'�t� ou l'automne prends un tout autre sens � ces temp�ratures extr�mes. Pas question d'arr�ter plus de cinq minutes sinon on g�le. Le d�ner a donc �t� exp�di� rapidement. L'apr�s-midi alors que la temp�rature a atteint -17�C, nous pensions avoir un r�pit mais le vent s'est mis � souffler � 30 km/hr causant un refroisdissement �olien �quivalent � -30�C. La randonn�e s'est tout de m�me termin� en beaut� alors que nous avons compl�t� le parcours en un peu plus de 6 heures. <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/24786-IMG_0690.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/24787-IMG_0698.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/24788-IMG_0701.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/24789-IMG_0706.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=9286</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=9286</link><pubDate>Thu, 3 Jan 2008 19:32:14 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sandy McNabb]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just a short trip to check out the area. &amp;nbsp;Next time we will go down Price Camp trail. &amp;nbsp;We ended up going up it a km or so. <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/215351-20090101_009_N_SandyMcNabb-1.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/215352-20090101_012_N_SandyMcNabb-1.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/215353-20090101_021_N_SandyMcNabb-1.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/215354-20090101_025_N_SandyMcNabb-1.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=99353</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=99353</link><pubDate>Fri, 2 Jan 2009 21:52:26 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Station Flats]]></title><description><![CDATA[Good hike with a bit of elevation change. &amp;nbsp;There has been very little new snow recently and there has also been a fair amount of melting. &amp;nbsp;The snowshoeing was a bit crunchy as a result. &amp;nbsp;Jake, our black lab, found a part of a dead rabbit and proceeded to swallow it as fast as he could before we could get it from him! &amp;nbsp;We saw two partridges (we think) and the dogs didn't even notice them a mere 20 feet away. <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/255204-20090201_012_N_StationFlats-1.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/255205-20090201_033_N_StationFlats-1.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/255207-20090201_Heidi__Station_Flats_005-1.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/255206-20090201_043_N_StationFlats-1.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=121435</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=121435</link><pubDate>Wed, 4 Feb 2009 19:16:16 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teardrop Lake, Killarney]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a recent hike one of my coworkers asked about going on another winter hike. I didn't have any more winter geocaches on my list so I suggested a trip to Killarney. Geocache or not, I like to have a destination so I decided to combine two adventures in Killarney park that have intrigued me for some time. We were going to try to make it to Teardrop Lake via the decommissioned portage from George Lake to OSA Lake.Teardrop LakeI've done some ridge running on the north shore of OSA Lake in the past in pursuit of a Geocache. It's a spectacular location and I've returned twice to enjoy the view, but I decided that the next time I returned to OSA I'd try something different. While browsing the park map I noticed Teardrop Lake nestled high in the hills above OSA. There are no portages or trails leading to Teardrop so it's one of the more remote lakes in the park. A little research revealed that it has been visited recently and isn't particularly difficult to get to once on OSA Lake.The George To OSA PortageThe normal route from George Lake to OSA Lake is to make multiple portages from George to Freeland, Freeland to Killarney, and finally from Freeland Lake to OSA Lake. This is a very scenic trip, but there's a more direct route I've heard about in books, on the web and via word of mouth. There's an old portage from George Lake directly to OSA Lake that was decommissioned years ago. It cuts straight across Killarney Ridge.The old portage is reputedly quite difficult, and the park staff discourage its use to allow the area to regenerate, so I had no intention of carrying a canoe across the ridge, but it seemed like a great way to shorten a snowshoe trip to OSA Lake.The WeatherDespite forecasts that called for a gloomy day we had almost perfect weather with not a cloud in the sky. The temperature hovered around -9°C which helped to keep us from overheating, but not so cold that we got chilled. There was a bit of wind on George Lake, but other than the occasional cold hand or ear we were pretty comfortable.The Silhouette TrailI decided to start the trip on the Silhouette Trail since it would minimize the time we were on the ice of George Lake and would also shorten the walk slightly. The Silhouette Trail circumnavigates the entire park. I've hiked short sections of it before, but never the start of the trail in George Lake Campground. The entire trail is quite rugged and the start of the trail is quite steep, as if to serve as a warning to unwary hikers.After walking through the car campground (the roads aren't maintained in the winter) we put on our snowshoes at the trailhead and started to climb the first hill. Despite the steep slope there was a toboggan trail leading up the hill and continuing along the trail. We suspected a camper, and between AY Jackson Lake and Little Sheguiandah  Lake we encountered a lone man dragging a sled laden with gear. He had a four season tent and I assume a winter sleeping bag, not a Snow Trekker Tent and wood stove, so he was in for a cold night. Winter camping is pretty hardcore, but doing it solo is extreme!Once we passed the camper we were breaking trail through fresh snow which made walking more difficult. The trail is rugged enough that our 'shortcut' to Little Sheguiandah probably didn't save us any time, but it was very scenic. I'll probably return to hike the entire Cranberry Bog trail in the future because it is very nice.Little Sheguiandah LakeDespite the rough terrain it didn't take us long at all to reach Little Sheguiandah Lake, and neither of us were particularly winded which was a good sign since we had yet to begin the difficult part of the trip. As we crossed the ice we were quite surprised to see another hiker on the far side of the little lake. He'd hiked along the ice of George Lake and was travelling in the direction opposite to us.Little Sheguiandah Lake is very pretty, and also holds some special significance for me so we stopped to take some pictures and enjoy the spot. After that we crossed George Lake to where I thought the trailhead was on the far side. The wind had compacted the snow on the ice making it much easier to walk on than in the woods.Getting LostWe headed for the northeast corner of the bay on the far side of the lake and then circled west to find the portage. I'd done a fair amount of research on how to find the trail, but it had been a few weeks since I read any of it so I couldn't remember exactly where we should be searching. With all of the snow on the ground we couldn't find anything resembling a trail, marked or unmarked. After searching for a while I decided to just head into the sparse brush and climb upslope. I reasoned that as the valley funnelled us to the pass between the peaks at the top we'd be sure to encounter the trail.I soon realized that we were on the wrong side of a creek that was heading up the mountain to our left. We crossed the shallow stream after jumping down a steep embankment, but the hills of the valley kept steering us along the path of the creek and leading us away from where I felt the portage had to be.Since we were now far from any trails and human travel we were surrounded by animal tracks. I decided to forego the sketchy advice of my GPSr and followed a heavily travelled deer trail that was heading up a pass and up the hill towards the light. The deer led us out of the valley but even they continued on up the wrong mountain. We were now so far off course that we were closer to Teardrop Lake than to the lost portage so I decided to change direction and head directly to our destination by climbing a hill to the north.The snow was deeper in the woods than on the lake, and after an hour of breaking trail my legs were exhausted. I could barely lift my feet, and every time I'd settle my foot into the snow it would all collapse and leave me no higher than before. Mike offered to lead a bit and practically ran up the hill. He leapt from one foothold to the next, packing the snow down before it had a chance to crumble. I was easily able to climb the stairs Mike had carved into the steep slope of the hill, and we paused at the top for some lunch and to reorient ourselves.After eating I tried to pull out the paper map but my hands had grown so stiff while I was eating that I couldn't manipulate the folds of the paper. I finally realized that the two peaks to our north bounded the pass between us and Teardrop Lake. I quickly put my gloves back on and thankfully my numb hands soon warmed up.The small hill where we'd paused for lunch represented a turning point. We were tantalizingly close to our goal, but it was also getting late in the day. From here we could easily head back down the hill to George Lake, whereas pressing on would bring us even deeper into the park. Earlier I had decided that I'd be fine with not reaching Teardrop Lake as long as I got a nice view of OSA. So far we'd had neither, and the hike up the hill had been nice, but devoid of the kind of views that Killarney is famous for.We decided to press on to Teardrop and tried to head north. The ridges of rock were not obliging however and kept pushing us in the wrong direction. Then we had to drop down below the trees and I couldn't see the two peaks. I was using an old GPSr since my Oregon is damaged, and while our destination was out of sight it started to act up, reporting our location everywhere but where we were. This caused us to travel several hundred meters too far west before we got headed in the right direction. Then the bush in the bottom of the valley was so dense that we had to climb the right peek slightly in order to get through.Teardrop LakeWe were pretty tired by the time we stumbled down the steep hill to Teardrop Lake, making our destination a bit anticlimactic. Teardrop is in fact a very pretty lake, surrounded by tall cliffs like Topaz Lake, but after some of the other places we'd been it was almost disappointing. We walked to the north shore hoping to get a glimpse of OSA Lake, but the view was in the wrong direction and we were too tired to climb any higher.We didn't want to return the way we'd come, and I was hoping we could still find the old portage to make the return trip easier. To get there we had to climb a very steep hill leading out of Teardrop, and to my surprise we found ourselves at the peak of one of the hills along ridge. We still couldn't see OSA Lake, but we had a spectacular view of Teardrop and the LaCloche hills to the north.Getting Off The MountainWe continued along the top of the mountain and each turn presented us with a new spectacular view. We could see our footprints from earlier in the day on the snow of George Lake far below us to the south, and further afield we could see Georgian Bay, Phillip Edward Island and Manitoulin Island. The setting sun was also lighting the peak of Killarney Ridge to the northeast which was our destination since I thought that the portage trail ran along the base of the mountain. We even finally got our view of OSA Lake, and were able to see Killarney Lake to the north and The Crack. If Silver Peek was visible I couldn't figure out which peak it was. We'd worked so hard to get a view of OSA Lake and now it seemed we couldn't get away from it. The mountain kept pushing us north towards OSA, and not George where we had to go. Every time we descended a slope I was surprised by how high we still were. I hadn't realized that we'd climbed so far up. The descent become steeper and steeper until we found ourselves peering over a cliff face at a valley below. We debated attempting a treacherous descent or heading back up the mountain to find a more gradual slope, but eventually opted for the easier but riskier option of zigzagging down the steep slope and using trees for support.It was surprisingly easy to get down to the valley floor, but after all of the downhill sliding my snowshoes felt like they were made of lead as I tried to walk on level ground again. The sun had just set but we still had about a half hour of light before dark. We finally made it to where I knew the old portage had to be, but we still couldn't find the trail, so we just trudged through the pass in the direction of George Lake. At this point I had so much ice on my GPSr that I couldn't manipulate the buttons anymore, but I could at least tell what direction we should be heading.The Long Walk HomeAfter many heavy footsteps downhill we found ourselves on the ice of George Lake again. We decided to make the return trip easier by walking on the ice instead of heading back into the bush. The walk that had seemed so easy earlier in the day was now very difficult and we had to stop frequently to catch our breath. A quarter moon above and the light from a few stars filtered through a thin layer of cloud that had formed after sunset. The crunch of snow under our snowshoes drowned out most sounds as we walked, but every time that we stopped we were enveloped by the silence of the park or the gurgling of one of the many creeks that feed into George Lake.It was quite late by the time we finally stumbled into the car, and then we had the long four and a half hour drive home. <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/5651785-P2160015.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/5651791-P2160019.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/5651793-P2160023.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/5651794-P2160024.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=2019795</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=2019795</link><pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:02:20 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Killarney Silver Peak Winter]]></title><description><![CDATA[Myself
and my friend Michael were looking to go on a winter adventure.  We decided that reaching Silver Peak in
Killarney would be a suitable conquest in the winter.  To me, having a proper destination or goal to
reach always is more satisfying than just simply walking around the woods and coming
back.  I also had not been proper winter
camping before, so that would be a challenge. 
I had bought a winter sleeping bag and made a pulk sled for winter camping
in 2009, but I never used it as that winter was not really cold enough for lake
travel.  So, there were quite a few
things that would be different or a challenge for this trip.

To make it even more
interesting, we wanted to get to Silver Peak a nontraditional way, and approach
it from the South direction, traveling off track, which there are no proper
trails to the peak.  We plotted several
possible routes to get where we wanted to and would decide which one to take
when we got to the area.

As the days got closer
it was apparent that the temperature would make things interesting, as some
nights were -20 and colder in the forecast.

 

Day 0

We decided to get a
head start to Killarney on Friday evening to make the most of the Saturday,
especially since the days are short in the winter.  So we went up to Parry Sound which cut 3
hours off of our travel and crashed in a Motel.

 

Day 1

We got up at 7, ate
some leftover pizza, hit up Tim Hortons for some drinks and some more breakfast
and hit the road.  We got to George Lake
campsite office at 10:30 to get permits . 
On the way in we stopped at both Johnnie Lake and Carlyle Lake accesses
to see what they were like.  We were
hoping that we could get to the end of Johhnie Lake road by car in order to
shave off 4kms of one of the routes that we wanted to go on, but that wasn’t
the case.  Both accesses only had a small
area by the highway plowed for parking. Originally while planning we wanted to
leave from Johhnie Lake, over to Bunny Rabbit and base camp at Sandy Lake.  That would have been 14kms and we decided
slogging through fresh snow for 14 kms seemed a little too optimistic. So, in
the end we parked at Carlyle access, and tookwhat would normally be a canoe
route to Kakakise Lake, Norway and finally to Sandy Lake.  This route was 7kms to base camp and I am
glad we chose this route, since it took us until 4 to do just that.

We parked at Carlyle,
got our gear together on our Pulk sleds and took off.  Michael’s sled was just a sled with a roe
attached to a hip belt, as it was his neighbor’s kids’ sled that he borrowed
for the trip.  Mine I attached some PVC
pipes together to form more of a proper pulk.

As we started off we
were following some tracks from someone else pulling a sled.  The slog across Carlyle is a lot longer than
you expect, around the corner and to the portage to Kakakise.  Up to the portage I was wondering who was in
front of us.  I was hoping whoever was in
front wasn’t going to Sandy Lake or Norway, so we could lay fresh first tracks
ourselves.  Soon we found out that
whoever was in front of us set up camp with a canvas tent and stove on the
portage to Kakakise, so after that we were plowing through the snow.  Good for the scenery, but the going was much
tougher than on an established trail.  I
love the freedom of being able to walk across lakes in the winter to areas you
would normally require boats to access.

The sky was brilliant
blue and very clear.  Every time we
rounded a corner we were amazed by the beauty of the Landscape.  There was an ice storm a few days prior,
followed by some snow, so it was a winter wonderland we were looking at.  Some of the portages had quite deep snow, you
could make out some very old tracks in some places that were snowed over long
ago, but other than that it was pristine.

We got to the place we
wanted to camp at 4 ish, still had a bit of light.  We camped in a sheltered spot at the tip of
the lake.  Michael proceeded to stomp out
a pad for tents.  I started to pile up
snow for a quinzee, but we quickly ran out of light and I decided to use a tent
for the first night instead of the quinzee. 


When the sun went down
it got really cold really fast.  I guess
that’s the downfall of having a super clear crisp sky.  I should have changed clothes and put on
multiple layers immediately after I stopped doing high output activities, and I
got cold quickly, but drinking hot liquids and getting some high energy foods
into me helped tremendously.  I slept
well and was actually sweating in the night, since I put my summer sleeping bag
as a liner inside my -20 rated winter bag. 
I also slept on a reflective tarp, on top of which I put a zlite
sleeping pad, and on top of that a Thermarest guidelite sleeping pad.  Before bed, I filled up a Nalgene with
boiling water, put them in a sock and put them in the sleeping bag, and changed
into perfectly dry thermals for sleeping in.

 

Day 2

We got up around
7.  Getting dressed in four layers takes
a long time to get out of the sleeping bag in the morning.  We made breakfast, I piled a bunch of more
snow on my quinzee pile and we headed out for Silver Peak around 11 for another
high energy day.  We brought day packs
with enough gear to deal with whatever we would run into.  On the map we picked a line that had the
least steep inclines.  We were planning
on going up a couple gullies as seen on topo maps but on the way up we actually
ended up going up some ridges instead which had a bit less snow than the
gullies.  There were some quite steep
sections that was hard going especially with deep snow.  The snow type/quality and depth kept changing
in different spots which made it interesting. 
My favorite snow texture was on the windswept ridges, where it was like
hard styrofoam which the crampons easily bit into and didn’t suck your energy
like the deep snow did.  On the way up
somewhere, my SLR lens broke..   from the
cold, ice, or both.  I could only take
wide angle shots..   glad I brought my
small camera, too.

We ended up at a small
swamp to the southwest of Silver peak, and the views just kept getting better
as we went.  A little bit of wind started
coming up as we got to the top.  The ice
storm from a couple days ago made for some spectacular alien-like landscape
near the peak, reminiscent of a Doctor Seuss world.  This was my third time to Silver Peak, and I
don’t think it would have been possible to be clearer.   Beautiful shocking blue sky and winter
landscape.  You could quite easily see a
horizon of Manitoulin Island and Georgian Bay to the southwest, plumes of steam
from Espanola mills the othe northeast, and of course Sudbury and the
superstack to the North.  It was quite
chilly and windy at the peak, but we changed into our insulated jackets quickly
while we ate some food before the journey back to camp.

We headed back to camp
in the same general direction that we came up from, but this time we went down
the gully that we were supposed to.  
Going up took 3.5 hours, down 1.5. 
Each step was half step, half slip in the deep snow, so we made good
time.  

Close to rejoining our
original path at the bottom of the slope, I noticed some moose footprints in
the snow and when I looked up, we came across a fresh carcass of a young moose
that was eaten by wolves.  By fresh I
mean less than a day old, with no snow and sharply defined tracks.  And by carcass I mean just the ribs and
backbone remained, picked absolutely clean, surrounded by blood mixed with
snow, wolf tracks and several tufts of fur. 
The legs and head were missing. 
At least it looks like the moose was taken down quickly and it wasn’t a
drawn out chase through the wolves.  The
scene was quite eerie and makes you think about things and the brutal reality
of the wilderness.  This scene was only
about 500m from our camp, but we hadn’t heard anything despite the nonexistent
wind.  Perhaps it all happened before we
got to our camp earlier the day before and the wolves had moved on by the time
we got there.  

Exiting the woods we
saw some snowshoe tracks from others that had followed our tracks into the
woods, and we wondered where these people were camping – we would find out the
day after.  We made the quick trip back
to camp – the sun was already going down and our camp was in the shade.  I promptly collected some firewood first,
since we wanted to have one that night. 
I found some nearby dead branches sticking up out of what would normally
be a swamp near our campsite.  I then
changed into warm/dry clothes in preparation for the approaching cold and after
I dug out my quinzee.  I couldn’t let all
that snow piling go to waste and not use it, and I wanted to try out the
novelty of sleeping in what was essentially a snowbank.  It really didn’t take much time to hollow out
a large enough spot so I could sit up and have my full length inside.  I also poked a hole in the roof for a vent,
and transferred my mattresses and sleeping bag. 
Michael still slept in his tent that night.

I also dug a pit for
the fire, chopped the wood up and we had a welcome fire.  I placed a buch of green logs/branches at the
bottom of the pit and made the fire on top of that to slow the melting of the
ice underneath.  The fire was welcome and
my feet were nice and warm from it.  We
ate, boiled water for our sleeping bag Nalgenes and retired for the night, me
to the quinzee, Michael to his tent.

 

Day 3

I woke up sweating -
the quinzee’s insulation sure works. 
Time to pack up and get back to the car. 
The weather had changed, itwas now overcast, but still no wind.  Gentle large flakes of snow were falling
vertically

We took our time eating
breakfast, then methodically packing up. 
I managed to pack my sled a lot better than on the way in since I put
more thought into it instead of just throwing everything on and lashing it
down, like I did for the trip in.

We followed our path
backwards towards Carlyle, the going is much easier n an established trail with
hardened snow than pushing through the soft untracked snow.  We followed the footprints we saw the other
day and ran into two men camping on Norway Lake.  We chatted with them a bit and they said they
followed our tracks part way up Silver Peak but turned back when it started
getting late.

We continued on the
paths, we came across even more tracks ad the path was pretty solid in
places.  Michael going downhill with just
a sled without poles was a bit awkward and he got bowled over a few times by
the sled behind him.  We made good time
back.  The last 1.5km across Carlyle Lake
was a bit of a chore, but I took off my snowshoes and just walked along the
hard trails.

We hit the road and
made it back to Guelph by 8:30, luckily the roads were in great condition and
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 <br><img src="http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8243/8495704267_114008cfe4_m.jpg"/> <img src="http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8107/8496809766_8623f9817f_m.jpg"/> <img src="http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8515/8495704791_14413a89b5_m.jpg"/> <img src="http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8238/8496810372_13869417cd_m.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=2026688</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=2026688</link><pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 10:39:33 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sutton]]></title><description><![CDATA[that was a more stamina challenging trail up to the roundtop.the lion goes out strong, they say.my first goal was lac spruce - but then i still had too much energy, so i went the other 160 m altitude to the roundtop.clouds where low, not a great visibility, but still beautyfull. <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/251910-090201_lac_spruce.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/251911-090201_summit_1.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/251924-090202_summit_2.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=119365</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=119365</link><pubDate>Sun, 1 Feb 2009 15:35:15 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whistler snowshoeing]]></title><description><![CDATA[The pictures correspond to the sites marked on the map.  <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/30609-IMG_6145.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/30612-IMG_6152.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/30852-IMG_6155.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/30611-IMG_6157.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=13026</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=13026</link><pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:39:22 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Callaghan Snowshoe]]></title><description><![CDATA[A snowshoe with the Vancouver *Adventurers* Club<br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/4028051-DSC_0004.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/4028052-DSC_0006.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/4028053-DSC_0010.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/4028054-DSC_0012.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1458754</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1458754</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:38:37 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morin heights snowshoeing]]></title><description><![CDATA[a casual sunday afternoon trail from the chalet in morin heights. once on running temperature, everything is great! dogs had great fun, too! <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/240922-photo.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/240923-photo2.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/240924-photo3.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/240925-photo4.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=114733</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=114733</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:35:15 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oro Medonte Strachan Tract Snowshoeing!!]]></title><description><![CDATA[First day on the new Snowshoes.&amp;nbsp; 6 of us went out to the 8th line of Oro and ventured into the Strachan Tract of the Simcoe County Forest.&amp;nbsp; We did a 3.9 km loop and had a blast getting used to the snow shoes.&amp;nbsp; Took some hilarious pics and video clips, the weather was great and there was lots of snow!!! <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/217121-s547105569_5253110_8799.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/217122-s547105569_5253105_6981.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/217123-s547105569_5253107_7698.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/217124-s547105569_5253109_8434.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=100088</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=100088</link><pubDate>Sat, 3 Jan 2009 20:26:59 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wiltondale Snowshoeing]]></title><description><![CDATA[First snowshoeing trail of the season.<br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/270670-DSC_6775.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/270663-DSC_6760.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/270666-DSC_6767.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/270669-DSC_6761.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=130858</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=130858</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:44:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gatineau Park - Hollow Glen]]></title><description><![CDATA[A very interesting outing.  By late March the winter season is usually coming to a close around Ottawa.  Here we are  - March the 19th and there is next to no show left on the ground at the trailhead (elevation ~ 400 ft).   The situation changes rapidly.  After some slips, slides and spills - we all transfer to snowshoes.  At the highest point of this hike (~1200 ft.) the snow is well over a meter deep, making it impossible to continue without the aid of snowshoes.   Hollow Glen is an area (and road) at the south-western edge of Gatineau Park - off of Mountain Road.  Chelsea's hidden jewel  as described by the very flattering web site at  www.hollowglen.com.  The drive along Mountain Road to get to this trail is very scenic.As for the trail itself, it is relatively short (for an experienced mountaineer such as myself**) but quite steep and incorporates many ups and downs that add up to a total ascend of over 1600 ft (500+ meters).  There is some bushwhacking required but when hiking over a solid snow base, the usual off trail impediments such as branches, roots and shrubbery - are not a factor.If you are an avid hiker and are blessed with living in a region that provides you with a long cold and snowy winter -  try out snowshoeing.. it is a lot of fun!!! ** The author reserves the right to embellish any details  regarding his own  accomplishments.   <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/2529576-DSCN0354.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/2529577-DSCN0355.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/2529578-DSCN0358.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/2529579-DSCN0360.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1008922</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1008922</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:29:21 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prospector trail]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a nice place near to Edmundston Downtown with nice senic view<br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/3923036-sentier_prospecteur_001.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/3923045-sentier_prospecteur_003.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/3923046-sentier_prospecteur_004.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/3923047-sentier_prospecteur_005.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1427326</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1427326</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:54:48 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A-Branch Cabin]]></title><description><![CDATA[<br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/5566268-ABranch3.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/5566266-ABranch1.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/5566315-ABranch5.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/5566317-ABranch7.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1987863</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1987863</link><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2013 13:31:08 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telemark Jack Creek]]></title><description><![CDATA[A walk in the forestThis is Telemark's longest snowshoe trail.&amp;nbsp; It gets you a long way from the ski trails and you get a great workout climbing back to the summit from the creek.&amp;nbsp; Let someone know you're heading out on this trail because if the conditions aren't ideal you may find it harder than you expected. <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/228942-P1100011.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/228941-P1100016.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/228943-P1100029.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/228944-P1100030.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=107187</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=107187</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:03:10 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Les Kekeko Ouest]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vous avez le goût de découvrir la section Ouest de Kekeko (beaucoup moins achalandée que sa contrepartie Est). Voici une belle boucle qui combine&amp;nbsp; une section hors-sentier de 4 km où vous&amp;nbsp;verrez beaucoup de trace de vie animale mais peu de&amp;nbsp;trace de vie humaine. Le retour se fait par la transkekeko qui vous offre de magnifiques points de vue vers le sud. <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/24792-panorama3.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/24786-IMG_0690.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/24777-IMG_2089.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/316729-IMG_1226.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=157740</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=157740</link><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 19:27:08 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mountain Portage Snowshoe]]></title><description><![CDATA[It was too cold to spend much time outside yesterday, but nice enough today to go play.  A lot of the trek was following animal tracks around the edge of the ice, with some clambering over rocks, ice, and even into a little ice cave!The river can be a little unsettling - when you hear the cracks and shifts, you make sure you are close to shore! <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/3943584-P1000339.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/3943588-P1000344.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/3943585-P1000341.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/3943589-P1000346.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1434000</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1434000</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 17:26:23 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parc d'Oka]]></title><description><![CDATA[Emprunter une partie du sentier du Calvaire. Goûter à la soupe Thai du chalet principal près du Lac!Pour plus d'info voir sur mon site: http://www.depannezvous.com/Randonnee/Laurentide/Parc_oka.html <br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1794605-Parc_oka.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1794608-parc_oka.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1794606-parc_oka__2_.jpg"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/1794607-parc_oka__3_.jpg"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=527531</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=527531</link><pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:49:10 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ivry]]></title><description><![CDATA[Description<br><img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/219445-2009_Jan_Winter_008.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/219447-2009_Jan_Winter_010.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/219446-2009_Jan_Winter_018.JPG"/> <img src="http://images.everytrail.com/pics/thumbnail/219448-2009_Jan_Winter_020.JPG"/> ]]></description><guid>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=100890</guid><link>http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=100890</link><pubDate>Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:39:17 -0500</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
	