Next Hike

The next hike will be on Saturday, 8th June.

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

Once again and with just a smaller group of eager hikers this time we decided to do some more bushwhacking and exploration.  I had to look up the definition of that curious word in my last sentence, to be sure it meant exactly what I thought it meant and found it fits precisely what we needed to do, to reach another new bluff. 

   

( There are many definitions of "bushwhacking" available on the internet, but an extra good one is here:—  https://www.uncruise.com/cruise-blog/what-bushwhacking )

So we drove south past Davie Bay then turned off and up the road that goes past Stromberg Falls to a junction at an elevation of close to 1,000ft above sea level. The old logging road that starts there is still easy walking, but soon after passing a large wetland on our left we needed to leave it and bushwhack in the direction of a pair of open bluffs that none of us had ever visited before.  We made pretty good progress with those modern smartphone apps combined with GPS and online maps being so very helpful. I think the group photo shows just how much fun it can be to bushwhack to someplace new with a view!

JD.

A hikers group photo under a shady tree on  "Booby Bluff", a viewpoint high above Hydro West and not far below Thompson Road.