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HI-LAND VIEWS Spring 2016 HI-LAND VIEWS Spring 2016 Editors: Larry Haskell and Tony Hopkins President’s Report by Carl Alexander Last year was full of Club activities that were first volunteers and club members shared a fun celebration class. at the Mono Centre Community Centre afterwards. 2015 was the 50th anniversary of our Club's September 14/15/16 2016, the Dufferin Hi-Land club formation. In 1965, the bulk of the Dufferin section of hosts the Bruce Trail Conservancy Annual General the trail was on roads. Today, through the generosity Meeting in Mono Centre. A hard working committee of supportive landowners, Bruce Trail Conservancy is planning an enjoyable informal wine and cheese acquisitions and Provincial Parks, most of the trail Friday evening. On Saturday afternoon there will be takes us through untouched forests, along streams and tours of local unique attractions followed by a social farmlands, over rocks and scenic vistas of the Niagara hour and dinner. Do not miss this opportunity to Escarpment. participate. You will not be disappointed or bored! A 50K Challenge Hike from Dufferin County Road 21 It is a privilege to be your Club President. Our Board to Mono Centre was organized to recognize our Club's and volunteers are amazing in their professionalism anniversary. For less adventuresome hikers a series of and their endless hours of work. I invite you to show self-directed hikes totaling 50K were also your continued appreciation by enjoying the superb available. This event was a huge success. Participants, trail and participating in Club activities. BTC AGM Sponsored by the Dufferin Hi-Land Bruce Trail Club Friday September 16, 17 and 18th, 2016 The 2016 Annual General Meeting of the Bruce Trail Conservancy is shaping up to be one of the best ever! From Live entertainment on Friday night with a cash bar; Saturday workshops to include such diversity as wood carving, farm tours, beekeeping, equestrian, speakers; environmental walks; wonderfully catered meals, a silent auction; and on Sunday, a variety of hikes. There will be lots of interesting things to participate in. Over the weekend, there will be lots of opportunities to help out with tasks that will take just a few hours of your time: silent auction helpers, door helpers, table and chair arrangers, people organizers etc . There will also be opportunities to bake muffins, prepare cheese trays or snacks. Information will follow on specific tasks. With everyone doing a small bit, we will have everything we need! We are now collecting items for the Silent Auction. Please consider what talents you may have to offer up for auction! Dinner preparations, lawn and gardening care, gift baskets, boating lessons, moonlight champagne dinners.....dream it and offer it up! Use your contacts to have items/events donated. If you are approaching a business in town to ask for a donation, please contact me to make sure that that this vendor has not already been approached. Please contact Carol Foley at [email protected] or or 519-942-6488 or Donna Powell, 905-838-1862 Anatomy of a Hike: Among the Zapatecas in Mexico’s Sierra Norte Mountains A hike is a hike is a hike. Right? Of course not. standards, but the Sierra Norte isn’t the Niagara Anyone reading this publication will know there are as Escarpment. In total, we climbed 4,215 metres and many types of hikes as there are models of hiking descended 5,175. Put it this way, when we arrived at boots. There are day hikes and overnight hikes and our destination each afternoon, we were ready to long distance hikes. There are mountain hikes and unlace our boots and shed our packs.At night, clean, valley hikes, inter-tidal hikes and smell-the-roses well-appointed cabins with crisp white sheets and a hot hikes. There are pilgrimages, rambles, tramps, treks, shower awaited, as did hearty Mexican meals made strolls; and the occasional slog. with local produce. The cooks joked as they turned out a seemingly endless supply of steaming homemade corn tortillas and large pitchers of fresh natural juice—my favourite was cucumber and guava. In La Neveria, Josephina concocted a watercress frittata that would have passed muster at the best Canadian restaurant. At higher altitudes, the cabins had wood- burning fireplaces that removed the chill as we tucked thick wool blankets under our chins. All good, but as anyone who has hiked above a certain altitude knows, a slope that would normally go unnoticed can make one’s heart race. For the first three days, we remained at about 3,000 metres and I felt as though the fat circus lady’s legs had been transplanted I like just about any hike, but my favourite is usually onto my hips. We were lucky to cover three kilometers the one that I am currently hiking. And so it was in in an hour. Then we dropped down to nearer 2,000 mid-February, when my partner Alex and I set out for metres. Suddenly, I was bursting with energy. Those a seven-day, village-to-village “caminata” among the fat legs had been replaced by Secretariat’s. I savoured indigenous Zapatecas in the Sierra Norte mountains in the combined effects of increased oxygen and being southern Mexico. Hiking in Mexico, you say? Yup, hike-ready. Much as I’d loved the thin, crisp mountain you heard right. We hiked in Mexico and we weren’t air, I reveled in the mounting humidity as the robbed by bandits, stung by scorpions or kidnapped by temperature climbed above 20 degrees. The stones that drug lords. Just the opposite. had weighed down my pack turned to feathers, and we congratulated ourselves for electing to carry our gear Starting at over 3,100 metres (about 11,000 feet) in the rather than have it transported (an option on offer). village of Llano Plano, the route eventually took us down to about 2,000 metres in San Miguel de Amatlán. The pine, spruce and oak forest gave way to foreign- Along the way, we spent nights in Cuajimoloyas, looking hardwoods. Bromeliads, cacti and orchids Benito Juarez, La Neveria and Latuvi. The general clung to their hosts forming complete branch-top direction may have been downhill, but don’t be fooled. gardens. Each day we had a new guide who told us The route was up and down, providing us with about the flora and fauna. We began to better spectacular vistas of layered green mountains, strolls understand their Spanish, a relief since we hadn’t taken alongside working farms; and walks near clear streams advantage of the offer of a translator. If a plant didn’t where the dappled sun illuminated the rainbow hue of have a medicinal use, it had a clever name. All the the resident trout. At times, the scent of pine resin birds seemed to be brilliantly coloured—but what made us wonder if we were back in Canada. In all, we would one expect in an area with more than 400 covered 73.7 kilometres—for an average of 10.5 species of birds, 350 different butterflies and more kilometres per day. No distance by Bruce Trail than 2,000 types of plants. So rich is the population of mushrooms that they hold a mushroom festival each year in August. Our favourite guide was Memo. He happily shared his stories and was delighted to teach us a few Zapateca words as we walked the 12.6-kilometre route between La Neveria and Latuvi. Upon arriving in Latuvi, Memo joined us for a meal and then walked all the way back home—a good day’s exercise for anyone, but Memo was 74 and this was his third round trip in as many days. Our guides, cooks, waiters and housekeepers were all volunteers. In the Zapateca way, they must complete three, one-year terms of voluntary community service. More information In return, they receive land and standing in the Read more about hiking in the Sierra Norte by community. This unpaid labour made the eco-tourism checking out Nicola’s blog Dusty Travelling at project, of which our hike was part, highly economical. www.blog.nicolaross.ca. You will find details about Each of the villages shared the eco-project’s revenue hiking in the Sierra Norte including the cost and other and the benefits were obvious: clean streets, new arrangements at (Info on Hiking Sierra Norte). You schools, tidy medical clinics and covered basketball can also contact Nicola at [email protected]. courts. Nicola Ross is a prize-winning author of five books For us, this adventure was a perfect blend of including the hiking guide: Caledon Hikes: Loops & wilderness and rural. One morning, Alex had to pinch Lattes. Later this year, look for her new guide: Halton himself because the lane where we walked might have Hikes: Mostly Loops & More Lattes. In addition to been in England where he was born—until that is, he writing about hiking and other travel adventures, spied Mexico’s “flag” bird: the red, white and green Nicola leads day hikes in the Caledon area. Visit her trogon. We walked for five kilometers through a website at nicolaross.ca. mystical forest of oak trees draped in Spanish moss that flowed in the breeze. Near metre-long, snake-like cacti populated a rock face, and delicate peach blossoms heralded the arrival of spring. We dropped Notice of Annual General Meeting into incised river valleys where the sun peeked through trees too tall by half and we seemed centuries apart The Annual General Meeting of the Dufferin Hi- from what was happening out there.
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