Sun.
17 June:
The
Rideau Trail 2018 End-to-End Hikes:
10A.
Narrows Lock (08C+) to Miners Point Road (08G)
Note: click on pictures for full size view.
HOT – too hot probably to be hiking. But the light breeze and the shade of the
forest were just enough to get us about eleven kilometres further along the Rideau
Trail towards Ottawa, in temperatures just short of 30 degrees C.
This author is now in familiar territory, north of the
Big Rideau Lake. I have taken much
better photos along this section than I did today. But perhaps these few pictures will give the
reader an idea of the route.
The trail and the cottage road seem to have an on-again,
off-again love affair the whole way; first meeting, then parting company, then deciding to get together again, only to head off in their own directions once more, and so on.
This portion of the trail is getting a little
overgrown, and we had to search for the right woodland route a couple of
times. But the beaver dam was easily
negotiated.
Red Rock makes a spectacular lunch spot.
This section of the Rideau Trail keeps you working
right to the end.
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| The trail from Kingston comes down the road and turns here. We had parked a few hundred yards off-trail at Narrows Lock |
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| Heading into quite rugged woodland |
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| A pretty side trail (blue arrows) heads up onto a small plateau |
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| Signage was not always this good |
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| Colorful swamp... |
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| ...and a friendly resident |
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| Junction of North Shore Road with Cooper Drive. Rideau Trail turns left here. |
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| Easy crossing of the big beaver dam |
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| This sign indicates the entrance to the Red Rock viewpoint Just east of #599 North Shore Road |
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| Red Rock... |
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| ... a perfect lunch stop. Lot of activity on Big Rideau Lake today. |
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| Miners Point Road - last few metres to the car after a hot hike |
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