Maritimes

August 4 to 21, 2009

Aug 15: acadian trail

how fitting, august 15th is "LA journée national des acadien et acadiennes" and we are doing the acadian trail!

on our way up, we ran into a group of cachers coming down and they were amazed that we were going to do the cache.... we ran into them again the next day and they congratulated sam on a great hiking job.

Here is a snippet of the cache description:

"This cache is placed on the Acadian trail - 8.4 km (loop).

Trail is smooth in some parts but has fist size rocks and roots in several places, trail on the right leads through a steep valley, satelite reception is poor but returns when you reach the summit of the trail.

Recomended route to the cache is to keep to the left trail and then follow the other trail on the return Not recomended for small children."

the trail information sign

sam checks out the 8km+ trail that we need to hike.

looks like someone else just had a snack.

it was a very hot day... 30+ degrees. We made lots of stops for water

ribbit!

no moose.. just poo!

mossy

time for another water break

sam enjoyed the small creek

a mossy shot

more water!

getting closer to the top.

very dry looking tree.

lots of different kinds of trees

the trail is starting to level off!

the view is getting better the higher up we get

almost there.

woo-hoo! we made it to the top!

and check out the view!

oh yeah... we also found the 5th and final cache!

beautiful view.

too bad we didn't pack our lunch... this woukld be a great spot of a picnic.

the road down there is the elevation we started hiking from.

another view.

funky looking tree

one last look before we start the 4km+ trek back down.

the vegetation is much different on the way down.

downhill was a bit easier.

but we still had to stop for water.

one last peek through the trees.

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