The Rideau Trail 2018 End-to-End Hikes: 21. Rushmore Road (17B) to Corkstown Road (18G)

Sun. 30 September: 

The Rideau Trail 2018 End-to-End Hikes: 

21. Rushmore Road (17B) to Corkstown Road (18G)

Here’s a question for my friends in UK and Ireland:  could you hike 300 km through your countryside, over a period of seven months between March and September, on twenty one separate walks, without once being rained on? 

That’s what we’ve just done here in Eastern Ontario.  What’s more, on ten of those hikes, it was cloudless, and on only one walk - today’s trip - did we not see any sun (or perhaps we did?).  It’s been that kind of year.

This long journey from Lake Ontario north to the Ottawa River is almost done.  Just twenty one kilometres left, to reach the heart of Canada’s Capital. 

Let today’s pictures do the talking.

Rushmore Road, Ontario's "prairies", under threat of rain.
But it stayed dry all day.

A pleasant short detour off Steeple Hill Crescent

One of our hikers said that this might make a good painting.
Sorry, this is the best my tiny camera could do.

Mr. Mowat the welder lives here

We hoped this said "Garlic Sale", not "Garlic Ale".

Fallowfield Church: a favourite Rideau Trail waypoint

Contrasts:  from quiet green byways......

...to  busy city streets (Old Richmond Road)

Here's someone you could vote for (Steve Anderson)

A few touches of  Fall colors, but not many

Good trail markers in Ottawa's Greenbelt

Some of the prettiest woodland on the Rideau Trail

At the junction with the popular Lime Kiln blue loop

A superb long boardwalk west of Old Richmond Road

Wet patches in the woodland

These green pathways lead into the heart of Ottawa

Admiring the decorations

Crossing the huge old railway bridge across Robertson Road

The path leads north through farmland to Timm Drive

Crossing under the busy (and noisy) 417 Highway...

...where there's some impressive graffiti