Hiking & Geocaching: Bday hike to Beauvais Lake

The trail is very wide and seemed to be used quite often by ATV's. We soon discovered that there were quite a few offshoots to either side of the trail. I had taken the image of the map I found on Trails NS and overlayed it in Google earth and traced out the track and loaded into the gps. It seems that the map is pretty dated cause parts of the trail are not even slightly visible so we walked where we thought we might join up with the original. It was a nice walk, quite easy to walk lots of hills. We eventually met up with the trail on the map. We came to the end of the trail and somebody's personal dump, makes me angry and wonder, it takes more effort to haul garbage up in the woods than to put it at the roadside for collection, I really don't get it. Instead of walking out on the side of the road we decided to back track and try to find the right trail to make a kind of loop. We ended up at the other end of the lake and had to backtrack again. We made our way back along the same track and before we went out to the care we made a quick detour so we could get a view of Beauvais Lake.

After Caoimhe rolled and slid around on the ice for a bit we started back to the car. It was a beautiful way to spend a birthday!! The trail is easy to walk on, at least in the winter, looks like it might get pretty swampy and wet in the summer. Nothing really spectacular to rate a return visit. A few big hardwoods, lots of rabbit tracks and thats about it. We ticked another published trail off the list though. It makes me wonder how accurate some of the other maps I have found on the web are. The wonderful thing of the Oregon and the upgraded maps is that it makes it quite easy to keep track of our progress, where we are going and witch way to get back. Hopefully the weather keeps cooperating and we get lots more hikes in.