Snowshoeing at Crawford Lake Conservation Area
Hello dear outdoor enthusiasts!
I hope you are doing well. We have been dealing with colds and flus. And bad weather. We live in Southern Ontario and the weather has been rather up and down. We've had bouts of minus 30 degrees Celsius and then of almost plus 10! Weather, make up your mind. This makes it harder for us to go out and enjoy the outdoors. We do go for walks around the neighbourhood if the weather is stable enough and we are nicely bundled up. We even managed to go walk by the water at LaSalle Marina Park in Burlington and see all the swans that overwinter there.
Other than walking/hiking, we have been able to break in our new snowshoes! My parents were beyond generous and gave us all snowshoes for Christmas. They live by a lake so we were able to try them out around their place, walking on the frozen lake and then through a park. It was great!
We don't get too many opportunities to go snowshoeing around our place though, mostly with this season's snow ... well, lack of it. Conservation Halton offers a few snowshoeing trails, which Crawford Lake falls under.
After three out of four of us recovered from above mentioned illnesses, we decided to go on a VERY last minute trip to Crawford Lake Conservation Area. It had been consistently snowing for a few days and the weather was just around minus 4. Pretty ideal for a hike. With a five-year-old and a two-year-old, we pretty much had to go for the Woodland Trail as it was the shortest available. It is 1.5 km and estimated completion time is of 45 minutes ... we did it in 1 and a half ... and we had two very exhausted kids on our hands. Clearly, we knew going in the younger one wouldn't be able to do the whole thing. We ended up letting her walk a bit and not having brought a sled or anything, carried her for a bit and then let her walk again. As for the older one ... well, let's just say there was a lot of whining involved. Still, we made it through and I think we still all enjoyed ourselves. The scenery was beautiful. The kids were able to roll around and play in the snow. We had a few tears (the kids) and some laughter (all of us).
We hope to get out and explore other areas near us. We have a couple of trips to Sudbury and Ottawa coming up, so hopefully we have a chance to use our snowshoes again. Maybe on a shorter trail with the kids in tow.
What winter sports do you enjoy? Feel free to leave a comment.
Thanks again for dropping by and let's see where we roam next!
Rachel
I hope you are doing well. We have been dealing with colds and flus. And bad weather. We live in Southern Ontario and the weather has been rather up and down. We've had bouts of minus 30 degrees Celsius and then of almost plus 10! Weather, make up your mind. This makes it harder for us to go out and enjoy the outdoors. We do go for walks around the neighbourhood if the weather is stable enough and we are nicely bundled up. We even managed to go walk by the water at LaSalle Marina Park in Burlington and see all the swans that overwinter there.
Other than walking/hiking, we have been able to break in our new snowshoes! My parents were beyond generous and gave us all snowshoes for Christmas. They live by a lake so we were able to try them out around their place, walking on the frozen lake and then through a park. It was great!
We don't get too many opportunities to go snowshoeing around our place though, mostly with this season's snow ... well, lack of it. Conservation Halton offers a few snowshoeing trails, which Crawford Lake falls under.
After three out of four of us recovered from above mentioned illnesses, we decided to go on a VERY last minute trip to Crawford Lake Conservation Area. It had been consistently snowing for a few days and the weather was just around minus 4. Pretty ideal for a hike. With a five-year-old and a two-year-old, we pretty much had to go for the Woodland Trail as it was the shortest available. It is 1.5 km and estimated completion time is of 45 minutes ... we did it in 1 and a half ... and we had two very exhausted kids on our hands. Clearly, we knew going in the younger one wouldn't be able to do the whole thing. We ended up letting her walk a bit and not having brought a sled or anything, carried her for a bit and then let her walk again. As for the older one ... well, let's just say there was a lot of whining involved. Still, we made it through and I think we still all enjoyed ourselves. The scenery was beautiful. The kids were able to roll around and play in the snow. We had a few tears (the kids) and some laughter (all of us).
We hope to get out and explore other areas near us. We have a couple of trips to Sudbury and Ottawa coming up, so hopefully we have a chance to use our snowshoes again. Maybe on a shorter trail with the kids in tow.
What winter sports do you enjoy? Feel free to leave a comment.
Thanks again for dropping by and let's see where we roam next!
Rachel
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