Lost In The Forest

Christie Lake near Dundas today. It looked like it rained much more than we thought it did. Great trails here for all levels and one-directional trials.

York Regional Forest, Hollidge Tract, and King Woodlands. are part of the York Forest Region https://www.york.ca/environment/forests/york-regional-forest It was such a great day, All access trails, Lung Oysters and friendly people. We started here https://www.trailforks.com/trails/accessible-trail-382124/It is a very relaxed and nice place to go for a ride, I also think if it was raining it could be a great place to visit.

This is the link to the Oak Ridges Trail https://www.oakridgestrail.org

Ice Cream shop https://tourism.discoverstouffville.ca/listing/coolest-little-ice-cream-shop/

The Kolapore Wilderness Trails consist of approximately 50 kilometres of marked trails that are managed for cross-country skiing in the winter and biking and hiking in the summer. Below is a quote from the Kolapore website.In winter the trails are intended only for cross-country skiing; please no walking, snowshoeing or biking, and leave your dog at home.The trails are located in a rugged, semi-wilderness area along the Niagara Escarpment in The Blue Mountains, about 20 km southwest of Collingwood. The trails are carefully blazed with orange triangle blazes, but the network is complex, so a map is strongly recommended.Where we parked at the Bottling plant on Osprey townline https://www.trailforks.com/poi/54329/The area website https://www.kolaporetrails.org

This is the link on Trail Forks, this is a ski hill https://www.trailforks.com/region/kimberley-1525096491/?activitytype=1&z=12.7&lat=44.36365&lon=-80.54474It seems there are a lot of winter lodges that sit empty in the summer. Typical Bruce Trails not so hard as just rocks everywhere. Navigation was okay but the bugs were tough. I do think this place would be a lot of fun on a dry summer evening. Rain makes for hard trails, slippy steep up hills.

The Soo is 8 hours north of Toronto it is trying to be the new Mountain Bike Capital of North America. All the jokes aside it has had a huge amount of money pumped into it and it has a good chance of becoming a real mountain town. The local Mountain Bike Club https://www.saultcyclingclub.ca has done a lot of work to maintain and keep trails running. They seem to have a welcoming friendly feel.

Our trip was slightly marked by Jessica having a fairly bad crash and like a trooper managed to get out of the trails and back to the car. She sadly is now in plaster. https://www.trailforks.com/region/sault-ste-marie/trails/

Jessica while being out of action is turning to sharing some of the recipes we use when consuming wild edibles.

Glenelg Klondyke is a 398-acre managed forest. Mixed hardwood and conifers, quite hilly and loose rock underfoot. A small lake can be viewed that is quite special, with a lot of butterflies, dragonflies and other insects, abundant bird and plant life, and lots of mushrooms, but on this day they were quite old. There is the Glenelg Nordic Ski Club and I would think this would be a cool place to Fatbike in the winter. Side note this land was farmed from 1868 until 1962. The forest you see now has grown up since the early 1960s managed by the Corporation of Grey County. Tick Key here https://tickkey.com Trail parking is here https://www.trailforks.com/poi/14998/

Walden Trails Sudbury Ontario is a place built by mountain bikers for mountain bikers. This is a stop-off point on our way to the Soo, it is fair to say you could do a weekend here and if combined with the trails in the Soo you could make a long weekend of it. 15k of tails over 350 acres of land, with blueberries earlier than anywhere else. https://www.waldenmbc.ca/our-trails

Brant Tract near Paisley. A great way to spend a couple of hours. Some Pheasant Backs and an Ice cream store called Magic Ice Cream Shop

https://www.themagicicecreamshoppe.com

https://www.trailforks.com/region/brant-tract/?activitytype=1&z=13.4&lat=44.24704&lon=-81.21699

Also to explain the word TractA tract of land pertains to an identifiable portion of land. Basically, a land tract is bordered by geographical formations; this makes the tract easy to portray and discuss. For instance, if an identified land area is surrounded by a river on one side, and has gently sloping hills before being bounded by high mountains on the other side, the tract of land could be easily recognized by the local inhabitants as the tract of land between the river and steep mountains.