Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday, 4th February.

We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am

It's difficult to know quite what weather to expect this Saturday as the predicted temperatures are so close to the freezing point.  Some moisture is likely to arrive during the day, but in what form is hard to say, and it could be either rain or snow or even some of both perhaps!  

Last week we knew there would still be snow and even ice on the higher level roads towards the south, but we guessed we would be fine if we picked a hike in the First Lake area.  We parked on the gasline at the cathodic protection site on Bell Road and headed uphill through the forest.  All the snow had been melted by the milder weather or washed away by recent rains and the only evidence of the heavy snowfalls of mid-winter was the layer of white ice on Horseshoe Lake where we had our lunch break.  For a while the sun warmed us up nicely there, but it was still on the cool side in the shade.  

JD.

The hikers at another frozen lake, Horeshoe Lake, not far from the Hydro East Road.