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Webster’s Falls areamong many beautifulwaterfalls in the Iroquoiasection. In the early1800s, Joseph Websterbuilt the AshbourneFlour Mill just above thefalls that now bear hisfamily’s name.PHOTO BY SUE HORNER.Water tumblesalong 30 Mile Creeknear the 73.2 kmmark of the trail in theNiagara section. PHOTOBY JEN VAN TIGGELEN.A white blaze clearly marksthe main paths along the BruceTrail. This one is near wherehikers first enter the forest aftertouching the Southern Cairn tostart the end-to-end journey.PHOTO BY SUE HORNER.great and small questionsof life. Or have livelyconversations. It’s also agreat community of hikers.”Over the years, he’smixed up how he tackledthe challenge, doing the trailin 12 Saturday hikes in 2004and a “double-double” (fourend-to-ends) in 2005. Thatmeant hiking out and back tohis car every day to finish twoend-to-ends in 31 days. Atthe end of this first double, hetook eight days off and did itagain, this time in 29 days.Sloan finished his 50 thend-to-end on July 18, 2015,which he figures brings histotal to the equivalent ofwalking around the world.He’s still doing regular 16km- to 28 km-hikes, althoughstopped doing official endto-ends.“Had to give allthose friends of mine tryingto catch up something toshoot for, you know!”As for Robyn Phillipsand her friends, theireyes are firmly set onfinishing one end-to-end.To Make It Official:1) You must be a member ofthe Bruce Trail Conservancy.2) Log when and where youstart and end each day; aseparate page for each of thenine club sections helps.3) Submit the log for eachclub as you go to get abadge then, or requestall badges at the end.Submit your trail log to BTCwith the date you completedyour end-to-end, with$15 plus shipping to coveryour badge, certificate andprocessing. If you want allbadges at once, the cost is$75 plus shipping.Sue Horner wrote “RiskyRoads: Road ecology measuresstep in when animal instinctsand urban sprawl collide,” forNiagara Escarpment Views,Winter 2016-2017. She has hikedabout 10 km of the Bruce Trail.32 Niagara Escarpment Views • spring 2021
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