Cold Creek

Today, I participated in a hike around the Cold Creek Conservation Area here in Toronto with the Toronto chapter of the Bruce Trail organization. It served as a great beginner hike, with plenty of strategically placed placards explaining the trees (types, diseases, historic industrial/commercial and aboriginal uses), wildlife conservation efforts (such as nesting boxes) and geological formations throughout the area. I also happened to be travelling with a fairly knowledgeable bunch. It was designated a beginner’s hike, so I didn’t get much of a workout until the second leg of the trip, when we were on the Oak Ridges trail and had picked up the pace quite a bit. Good thing too, because I was the only one of the 42-person group that foolishly decided to wear shorts and bring nothing else! I warmed up nicely jogging in my boots up the hills eventually. We passed some cattle–I said, “Yo,” and we also passed some horses in the bus. Pictures will be up on my Flickr at some point that is not tonight–I’m off shortly to watch a documentary about lesbian polyamory at the Inside Out film festival.