July 4 - Gorge Creek Trail (Riding Mountain National Park)

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We packed up quick in the morning and headed to Gorge Creek Trail, which is a 6.5km one way trail with the rating of difficult. At the beginning we were like “this trail isn’t very difficult”, then we started going up and down all sorts of stairs in and out of the gorge, and we quickly changed our minds. Check out the pic of Mel’s, it’s red as a tomato from the hike. It was a tough trail and it was super hot and humid. Great though!

After the trail we were so hot and nasty and sweaty we desperately need to go in the water. We drove quickly back to Clear Lake and went for a nice refreshing dip.

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Photos

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Pretty narrow trails most of the way

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Making our way through the brush

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Nice view point... you cant see it too well but there was a nice view of the prairies in the distance

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Melanie

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ahhh look at all those stairs hehehe

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pretty flower along the way

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chilling on the bridge for a bit

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more staiirrsss

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Us along the trail starting to get all nice and sweaty... it was super hot

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more stairsss... it was a pretty tough hike

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After the trail we were pretty exhausted, red, and sweaty (mostly Nigel lol.)

Comments

[Gran]

eagerly awaited
enjoyed your eagerly awaited pix and comments. trying to follow your progress on the map. could you mention some route numbers? Lots of love from Gran xoxoxo

[Lisa Fearon-Davis]

Incredible
I just love reading about everything you're doing. And I love all the pictures. Your adventure is really turning out to be just that...the adventure of a lifetime. What a way to see this beautiful country of ours. I'll look forward to the next entries. I love you!!!