Sorry: An Addendum

Well, obviously, I'm a week ahead of myself with the birthdays -- that means you all have an extra week of congratulations (and no belated wishes).

Since I'm here, let me pass along info about a hike this Sunday that Ruth has brought to our attention (with the High Park Hiking Group; I've added a link to our website):

Our first hike this September is at Maple Valley on Sunday, September 7th, led by Jim Thomas. For car-pooling, meet at Yonge and York Mills (just south of the gas station, at the south exit of the subway station) at 10:00 a.m.

Please help out with driving and get hikers out on to the trails. For directions, visit the website at http://www.hphc.ca (note, however, that we are having problems with the website and are working to resolve them with the service provider).

Ruth's comments:

The High Park Hiking Club is a very friendly group. Transportation arrangements are informal – there are often more people looking for rides than there are people with cars, so if people are willing to drive, they can expect that they’ll be asked to do so.

“Intermediate” means a hiking pace of around 4K/hour and generally means a distance of 15K. From the fact that they are talking about dinner afterwards, I would guess the hike will end around 5 p.m. Dinner is optional in the sense that there will probably be someone who wants to return directly to Toronto, and will take you back with them. But if all the drivers decide to go for dinner, and you don’t have your own car, you’d be stuck.

Note that the meeting place is a block south of York Mills – if you hang around right at York Mills and Yonge, you will miss the group.