Ministik

The hike today was a thoroughly pleasant outing to find a couple new caches and perform maintenance on a few of my own.

I lived through what turned out to be a very challenging hike through overgrown trails today.

To get to a remote cache today, I walked down familiar trails but then covered ground that I’d only once been near before 10 years ago - and that was in the winter months.

I undertook a grand loop hike in the Ministik today, what I call the Five Meadows Hike. It was a gloriously beautiful day to do it too.

Three of us did a two part hike today, first north of Township Rd 510 and then south to Deadfall Alley

In the past I’d walked on stub trails northeast of Mandy Lake and today I wanted to see if they really were actual trails - spoiler alert - there were.

There are some out of the way trails in the Ministik that start but eventually just peter out into nothing. This is one of them.

I made the trek down the trails of a corner of the Ministik I seldom visit today.

Four of us hiked south from the UofA Access Road gate all the way down Deadfall Alley today.

It’s March and the ice between islands on Ministik Lake can still be walked on. Or can it? Yikes! There’s standing water on a lot of it!