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Recently, I had the opportunity to hike Broad Cove Mountain, one of the hikes featured in this year’s Hike the Highlands Festival. I managed to get a picture of a Lady Slipper (see above) on my way up the mountain. Broad Cove mountain is a hiking trail located in the Cape Breton Highlands...Read more

Hike the Highlands Guides & Sweeps are getting ready for the September hiking festival with St. John Ambulance First aid training. Picture above is one course that took place recently in Indian Brook on the North Shore with instructor Lyle Donovan who is a paramedic as well a Fire Chief for a...Read more

There are some great daypacks out there for hiking, one of them is the Deuter Futura 28 AC. It is available from Mountain Equipment Co-op but I sure you can purchase it from other outdoor stores. I was impressed by amount of space, the pockets and sections with this day pack. The bottom section of...Read more

I had the opportunity to hike Plaster Provincial Park trail, part of the Nova Scotia Provincial Parks system,  recently without snow. I hiked this trail earlier with my wife in March. My impression has not changed one bit. This is a great little trail that has scenery, look-offs, and much more....Read more

International Trails Day is celebrated on the first Saturday in June- this year June 7th.  One of the best ways to celebrate is to get your hiking boots out and go for a Hike with your family and friends on one of the hiking trails in your area.  This is also a great way to start […]Read more

This year’s hiking schedule for the 2008 Hike the Highlands Festival has been announced. The list of guided hikes has increased from 18 last year  to 24 in 2008. Some new trails have been added – Money Point,  Bog & Benjies Lake, Plaster Provincial Park Trail, NHN trail in Cape...Read more

What a pleasant surprise today – hiking the Plaster Provincial Park Trail. My wife and I had never done the complete trail before and usually spent most of our time at the picnic park as well down at the beach and cove.  We had landed on the beach a few years back when we sea kayaked from...Read more

Despite being winter in the Highlands,  you can still enjoy hiking by snowshoe. My wife and I enjoyed a great hike the other day on the Red Island Trail . This trail  was part othe Hike the Highlands Festival last year. You certainly get a different perspective of the trail in the winter. ...Read more

Today my wife, Heather, and I went on a late fall hike on Red Island Trail. It was overcast, and windy but still a nice day for hike.  We did the trail clockwise and found the views much better along the trail. It wasn’t long before we got to MacDonald’s Pond and starting see all...Read more