Halton Hills & Limehouse

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Halton Hills and Limehouse
Wendy and I

Beautiful downtown Halton Hills with its suburbs, paths, and haunted evil forest of doom! Again we drove in rain the 50 minutes to HH after about 3 false starts. The paths are well groomed in this area with cedar chips instead of gravel or pavement. I enjoy variety in my path coverings almost as much as I enjoy variety in my beer.

After realizing the GPS wanted me to drive my car though a narrow access tunnel under a rail road bridge we decided to walk to the trail head. We arrived at what I thought was the first stage of Halton Hills Trail Cryptic and found the cache in about 3 seconds.

The cache was a film like canister with the top of a rusty bolt attached to it. I think I remember seeing one just like this in BC but I might have just seen it on the website forums.

We read the clue which was a Cryptic Crossword clue in the Anagram style. Very annoying because we both had never done one of these Cryptic Crosswords before. A call to my father at the store proved no help because it turns out we were at the wrong cache. This was in fact the second cache in the Omission Style. Tisk Tisk!!

So we continued on and found Tylor Cache which was very disappointing if not for the atmosphere. The forest here is twisted and evil with strange roots strangling each other under foot. The bark on the trees grows in wave like patterns and rotting corncobs are everywhere. Tons of broken glass and discarded pieces of clothes hang from trees like some kind of dry cleaner went bezerk.

Back we went and found the Anagram part of the Cryptic Crosswords cache which we solved to be "Aides". This reminds me of that South Park episode where Jerrid the Subway guy admits he used personal trainers to get fit, or as he calls them aides. He says that he will personally give aides to every person in the town but of course they hear the word without the "e" and freaked out. I love South Park.

Next we drove over to beautiful downtown Limehouse which was draped in fog. We were on our way to the Bruce Trails to find The Gathering which turned out to be the featured hike on the website. Parking was easy at the baseball diamond because we were the only living being in that part of town. After a nice turkey wrap lunch (too much turkey!!) we walked around the back of the diamond and found a small path. Following the path we were soon in for a big surprise.

Holy crap, the ground is broken! Thats what we thought as we saw dozens of deep fishers breaking the land into slices. They ran as far as we could see in every direction and as deep as 40 feet at least! The entire side of the escarpment was slowing breaking away and crumbling into the gorge below.

Walking a bit more we found a ladder descending into the crevice, how could we turn this down? Down we went into the abyss! Side note: why is this image uploader being such a piece of shit? UPLOAD MY PICTURE YOU LOOSER THING! Ah, there we go.

So, as I was saying, we descended into what seemed like the bowels of the earth. The view down here was pretty impressive dark shadows below and bright light above. Most of the area was pretty accessible but we didn't push our luck for fear of becoming stuck.

We found the cache after descending the ladders for about the 10th time and following the clue more carefully. There was a dinosaur, a turtle, and some other thing guarding the cache.

We took a short stroll down the path but it was getting late and we headed back to the car.

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On the way home we decided to stop by a church we had seen from the road on the trip up.

The church turned out to be a Ukrainian church and looks very cool.