Great New Trails!

Hikers in the HRM should be pleased with the excellent new trails that have been developed in the past few years. There are two, in particular, that deserve special mention.

The Bluff Wilderness Hiking Trail is a supurb stacked loop system that delves deeply into the remote interior of the Chebucto peninsula. This provides rugged trekking, a slender footpath winding through the thick vegetation and rocky ridges of the peninsula's fire barrens. Trails of HRM will profile the Pot Lake loop, the first of four loops in the system, but a full 10-km of challenge.

The Crowbar Lake trail system, traversing the raised granite uplands around Porter's Lake, also offers single-track hiking that negotiates its way up and down rocky ridges and past pristine, undisturbed lakes. It has laso been designed as a stacked loop system, although requiring a much longer approach march to the first loop. In Trails of HRM, I will profile the trail as far a Granite Lake, which is a linear 9.5-km grunt.

These two trails systems, added to the excellent Grante Ridge and Admiral Lake loop trails in Musquodoboit Harbour, provide the HRM with some of the finest and most demanding hiking routes available in the entire province.