Showing posts with label Finch Avenue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Finch Avenue. Show all posts

Friday, November 7, 2014

Ontario Trails News - use trails, stay off roads and this would happen less often.

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Monday, July 15, 2013

Ontario Trail News - Pan-Am Path, Ride Your ATV responsibly, Hastings Heritage Trail Death regrettable, Quetico and Woodlands Caribou Trails too!

Canada Cup mountain bikers race through Sudbury trails
CBC.ca
Trail preparation. The mountain biking trails at Walden will provide a more technical course for racers, due to the steep bedrock slopes and landscape of the Canadian Shield. “It's a good mixture between the fast-paced trails down in southern Ontario ...
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Closing Ontario trails to the North...!?!? at Snowmobile Fanatics ...
Forum topic - Closing Ontario trails to the North...!?!? , Has anyone heard of the debate going on in Ontario as to the closing of some of the northern trails?...
www.snowmobilefanatics.com/.../134147-closing-ontario-trail...


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ATVs tear up soccer field
Kawartha Media Group
Peterborough County OPP say ATVs were driven across the grass soccer field, ... from of the of the vehicles -- Ontario Marker bearing the numbers 875.


1 killed, 2 injured in Ontario ATV crashes
CBC.ca
Ontario Provincial Police are investigating two serious ATV crashes over the weekend that left one man dead and two others injured. The first crash happened ...


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How a bike path will tie Toronto together
Globe and Mail
With racing-style inline skates rolling lazily underneath him, Andrew Zysk sits on a park bench beside the Humber River, just downstream from where it flows under Highway 427 and into Torontoat Finch Avenue West. Mr. Zysk gets into the Humber Valley ...
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Tour des Trees and Professor Pricklethorn coming to Colborne
Cramahe Now
The week-long cycling tour starts on July 28 at Niagara Falls, Ontario and heads across the border, running along the south side of Lake Ontario before crossing back into Canada to complete the 585 km. journey back to Toronto. prof pricklethorn The ...
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Dave Orrick: A week in Ontario's Woodland Caribou Provincial Park provides ...
Pioneer Press
INSIDE WOODLAND CARIBOU PROVINCIAL PARK, Ontario -- There's a place here where the water tumbles over rocks before the current flattens in a rush that will carry your canoe into the lake it feeds. If the wind is right, it'll nudge you back into the flow.
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Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park: Big country, small wonders
Grand Forks Herald
Six of us are making this crossing of Quetico, Ontario's canoe-country sister to Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. We're bisecting the park in our three canoes, traveling from Atikokan, Ont., to Ely, Minn. Across Nym, Batchewaung ...
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Hiking — a different type of travel
Niagara Falls Review
Maria Fortunato, executive director of the Hamilton Halton Brant Regional Tourism Association (www.theheartofontario.com),. explained, “This walk has been a year in the making. It's a type of packaged walking tour that's never been done in Ontario. It ...
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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Ontario Trails News - Cycling and Canoeing and 4x4 - more to follow in Trailwise!

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Drivers asked to be cautious ahead of Sunday cycle race
Waterloo Record
The timed race is billed as the largest gran fondo — an Italian term for a short-to-long-distance, organized, mass-participation cycling event — race in Southwestern Ontario. There are three distances cyclists can choose from — the "Blackberry 130 ...
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Heritage Toronto Leads a Historical Bike Tour of the Huron-Wendat Trail
Torontoist
Riding a bicycle along the Finch Corridor path near Jane Street and Finch Avenue takes you past plenty of grassy fields and hydro towers. The serene surroundings make it hard to imagine that over 500 years ago the area already had its present-day ...
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Cycling advocacy: How a little self-evaluation can help our fight for safer roads
rabble.ca
Many politicians fail to see the contradiction between promoting cycling and rejecting pleas to install simple safety measures like bike lanes or truck side guards, which might have saved the life of Toronto cycling mom Jenna Morrison. Many cyclists ...
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OPP investigating kayak thefts
Shoreline Beacon
The South Bruce Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating the theft of two kayaks from a Paisley business. On June 15, at 3:38 pm, the OPP received ...


Wilderness canoeing in Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park | Outdoors ...
A party of canoeists makes its way through the narrows at the north end of Sarah Lake inOntario's Quetico Provincial Park, just north of the Boundary Waters ...
samcook.areavoices.com/.../wilderness-canoeing-in-ontarios-q...


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Cottage in the City Weekend presented by Ontario - Yours to Discover
BlueJays.com
This is an all ages event. Festivities begin at 4:30pm on Friday, June 21 st , outside gates 10/11 with Cottage Fan Friday, featuring a large sand pit and ...



Trail Updates: Reports of trees down on; Black...
Brian Sibbles8:53pm Jun 19
Trail Updates:
Reports of trees down on; Black Lake North (New), Picard lake and Crystal Lake. If you're heading that way please take a chainsaw or report back if its all clear via the trail reporting system.

Keep up the great work everyone and continue reporting your trail runs. Together we can all enjoy the sport to its fullest.

http://www.of4wd.com/trailreport.asp
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