Tacamahaca (aventuras | Outdoors)

Pincha aquí para la versión en castellano Marcela informed us (there's no better way to put it) that the only weekend she could go camping with us was the long weekend from August first to the third. By the time we got her notification, everyone planning to book a campsite in Ontario had already done so, especially those wanting to take advantage of the long weekend, which, as you can imagine, is in much higher demand than regular ones. Even the back-country campsites at Algonquin—a park whose sheer size usually leaves options open for those of us who rest on our laurels—were completely full. We had to, as has happened to us before, look for options farther away from Toronto, and we found a provincial park with backcountry campsites available for the dates Marcela gave us (...and for many other dates, in case we wanted to extend or repeat the visit). In fact, the park, which is called Mississagi to say it outright, offers backcountry camping in two modes: canoe-access and hike-in o...

Click here for the version in English Marcela nos informó (no hay mejor manera de expresarlo) que el único fin de semana que podía venir de campamento con nosotros era el fin de semana largo del primero al tres de agosto. Para el momento de la noticia, todo el que iba a reservar un campamento en Ontario ya lo había hecho, en especial quienes querían aprovechar el fin de semana largo, que, como pueden imaginar, tiene mayor demanda que los cortos. Incluso los campamentos de ´back-country´ de Algonquin, parque que por su tamaño suele dejar opciones abiertas a quienes nos dormimos en los laureles, estaban repletos. Desde el mirador con la laguna Brush al fondo Nos tocó, como ya nos ha pasado antes, buscar opciones más alejadas de Toronto y encontramos un parque provincial con campamentos de aventura salvaje disponibles para la fecha que nos dio Marcela (…y para muchas otras fechas más en caso de que quisiéramos extender o repetir la visita). De hecho, el parque, que se llama Mississagi pa...

Pincha aquí para la versión en castellano   First Section After a long wait for spring to arrive, on the long weekend to celebrate Victoria Day, it finally seemed to come—and it did so with force. On Monday, May 18, under a cloudless blue sky and with an initial temperature close to 18°C, Carlos, Malaika, and I set out to walk the first section of Map 6. It took us about three and a half hours to go from Felker’s Falls Park in Hamilton (marked as 23.2 on the Bruce Trail map [1] ) to the intersection with the extension of Jones Road in Stoney Creek (marked as point 14.0 on the same map). According to these two references, the distance between those points is 9.2 km, which matches the reading on the GPS odometer I carried with me, but not the projected route measured in Google Earth and adapted to Google Maps, which I list in the table below. During the hike, the temperature rose significantly, putting Malaika’s endurance to the test. Once we reached the car, the temperature read...