Saturday, January 30, 2016
Thursday, January 28, 2016
One Hundred Acre Woods Trailblazer hike
The hike today for our Trailblazers was the One Hundred Acre Woods, doesn't that sound like a lovely place to spend the day?
We've hiked this area a couple of times before, you can read about those hikes HERE.
Our carpool drivers took us to Marine Park where we walked up to join the trail system that connects with the Interurban trail. We then walked through Fairhaven park and into the One Hundred Acre trails.
The last time I was on this trail the beginning section was a muddy mess, I was happy to see that the City had improved the trail in that area.
As we made our way past the improved area, the dirt/fir needle trail resumes through a wonderful fern filled forest.
As you can see in the photo below, we did find the mud.
We eventually found our way back onto the Interurban trail and then headed to Hoag's pond.
After a quick walk around the pond, we headed back to the One Hundred Acre Woods.
Our "fearless leader Pat" kept assuring us that he wasn't about to get us lost in the woods, he even pulled out his map just to prove his point.
As we made our way through the forest a few things caught my eye:
New "early spring" growth -
a few delicate little mushrooms
and a tree where someone had done a Cedar pull.
I had been to a museum in British Columbia a few years ago and had watched a video on Native Americans relearning things from their past and trying to keep their culture alive. This tree reminded me of a short video I had seen there on the practice of bark pulling. The bark is then used to make baskets and hats by weaving the Cedar strands together. I searched on YouTube and found this video on the activity. I hope you take the time to watch it, I found it very interesting and informative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95rPwCDHOCE
We then made our way back to Fairhaven park and ate our lunches at the picnic tables, a rare luxury on our hikes.
When we got back to Marine park, we were remarking about how the weather really cooperated for us today.
As you can see in this panorama photo below, it really was pretty nice!
Endomondo stats:
Total miles hiked - 6 miles
Minimum altitude - 10 feet
Maximum altitude - 249 feet
Total ascent - 352 feet
Total descent - 393 feet
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