It Can Now Be Revealed

Sat. 5 November:  It Can Now Be Revealed

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The War’s Over! – now the full story can be told.

I have several fascinating booklets published immediately following the end of World War 2.  Under the title: “It Can Now Be Revealed”, they record events which had been censored during the War.

For the past two months, I have been posting pictures of the secret codes nailed to trees across Frontenac Park, as part of the Frontenac Challenge, but blurring them so as not to spoil the fun for the other hikers out there earning their Challenge badges.

Now it’s over.  Almost two hundred people completed the Challenge this year – a record – and a good number of them were at the Frontenac Park office today to collect their certificates and badges.    This is the twenty fourth year of the Frontenac Challenge.  I sat next to the only person who has completed every Challenge so far.  She looked capable of completing many more.  And then there was the six year old girl collecting her first certificate.  How many more lie ahead for her?

Next year, an exciting new challenge has been invented, called the “Ranger’s Ramble”.  This will involve hiking every trail in the Park, plus all the portage routes.  This might bring the total distance closer to 200 kilometres!  And there’s no doubt plenty of people will give it a go.

In the meantime, given the glorious Fall weather, with temperatures around thirteen degrees C, we took the opportunity to do some “forest bathing”, with a gentle stroll around the Doe Lake and Arab Gorge loops.  It all looked a bit bare, not just because most of the leaves are on the ground, but also because those exciting colorful code signs are now gone – at least, until next Fall.

One of the Code Signs being recorded by Challengers (and blurred by the censor)

It can now be revealed!

The full set of secret codes

Our reward - a nice certificate and badge