Hike Report : Beaver Valley 3 including both Ken Young & Mac Kirk side trails

Section: Beaver Valley 3 including both Ken Young & Mac Kirk side trails. Marker 34.7 to 54.1km

Hike Leader for Blue & White Team  - John N

Hike Leader for Classic end-to-end - Rudi

Hikers: John G, Eldon and John N, ------ along with
Classic Hikers: Stephen, Rudi, Margaret, John Nich, Carol, Jaonne

We left from North street in Eugenia Joanne was still hurting from the damage done by her pedicurist had to stop after about 1 ½ km.

We helped her back to her car to await our return.

 We passed a new side trail not found on our maps nor the Bruce trail web site it was Graham hill & Campbell road side trail. The first major land mark was the surge towers at the power plant. It was a hot day and we passed through an open field before descending.

 We crossed on to hwy 13 and passed the cross valley side trail proceeding up to 4th line –A . We proceeded up old Baldy and had lunch just before entering Mac Kirk side trail,

we easily met the classic group at the other end and once again proceeded together. We again branched at the Ken Young side trail and waited for the Classic group at the end. We came out at the end of North Street which we had completed the road walking the previous day to get a head start on the  Saturday hike.

The end of the hike was Stephen’s Classic End-to-end at last completed. With an arch of poles Stephen was a happy man.  We proceeded back to the start point to meet Joanne and share the celebratory champagne.