Tag: hiking
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Exploring Family Foundations At Kejimkujik
The period between 1850 – 1940 was an interesting time around Kejimkujik Lake. The area was populated with logging mills, gold mines, hunting lodges and cabins. Today when we enter the park, we don’t see this part of history right away, especially since some of these locations are in less traveled sections of the park.
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Geocaching & Hiking Challenge in Kejimkujik National Park
A great day of activities are shaping up over at Kejimkujik National Park & National Historic Site of Canada. The park is hosting their first geocaching challenge launch event on November 6th 2010 (GPS: N 44° 26.299 W 065° 12.964). This is a great opportunity to visit the park and to hike several trails in…
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Exploring Frozen Ocean
This is part two of my previous post about the upcoming geocaching/hiking challenge at Kejimkujik National Park on November 6th 2010. My second trip to the park was to finalize the geocache locations and to place the containers in five locations within the park. Event participants can then use their GPS to find them along…
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Nova Scotia Hiking Trails Finder
[info_message style=”info”]Important Notice: The NSTrails app will sunset on by December 31 2017. The app will be removed from the iTunes app store by September 31 2017. Trail information will be moved over to the Nova Scotia Trail Guide eBook Thanks to all fans of the app who’ve supported this project for the last 5 years.…
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Kejimkujik Paddle & Portage Trip
We spent 2 days paddling & portage across a series of lakes at Kejimkujik National Park in September. This was a special trip as it was the first time we’ve attempted this kind a multi-day paddle and an overnight in the backcountry. Our goal was to travel a partial route taken by the tent dwellers to…
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What Do You Carry For a 2 Hour Hike?
What do you put in your pack for a two hour hike?
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Mi’kmawey Debert
We stopped by Debert, next to Truro and visited this recently developed interpretive trail. This is a well maintained trail over pine forests with four interpretive signs along the way. The signs talked about the life of the locals 11 thousand years ago. This was a traditional travel route so it made sense that this…
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Poison Ivy Falls
We take a tour deep in the backcountry in Kejimkujik National Park towards an area of the park called Poison Ivy Falls.
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Bluff Wilderness Trail – Pot Lake
Nice big 8km hike along a wilderness trail, just minutes outside of Halifax. Decided to attempted the smallest hiking loop in the Bluffs, called Pot Lake loop. We parked the car at the closest parking lot and walked about 400m to the actual trailhead. We followed the BLT trail where you can either continue to…
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Cape Chignecto Loop
Cape Chignecto Provincial Park Cape Chignecto is a 4,200-hectare natural environment park on a dramatic coastal peninsula. The park features 29 kilometres (18 miles) of pristine coastline, some of Nova Scotia’s most significant geological features, deep valleys, sheltered coves, rare plants, remnant old growth forest, scenic views, and a rich cultural heritage. We offer wilderness…