On December 12, 1999, the Bayfield and Zurich Scouts hiked the Lake Trail at Wildwood Conservation Area by St. Marys. We all met in Hensal at about 8:00 am. and we left for Wildwood. Almost right after we arrived we started identifying the variety of trees there was to be found, becaus that was one of the main things we were to do on our hike. In order to get to the main part of the trail we had to walk on a very narrow path with many rocks below us. When we finally reached the trail we had to be careful not to step on some ice that was there so we wouldn't slip into some very pointy bushes. After a very long hike we finally found the bridge that we would stop to eat our lunch on. Overlooking the frozen water you could se a lot of the forest that we had yet to cover. After a good filling lunch we started up again, but to our surprise the trail had been closed due to a logging operation (not the log I'm doing, but real logs) so we had to hike on the beach. I found a very strange rock on the ground. It looked like some old piece of coral when you looked on the bottom, but if you just looked at it from the side you'd think it was just an ordinary rock. Well anyway after a while we found a path to the trail past the logging, so we then continued our journey in the forest. When we finally arrived back at the parking lot, we were all very tired from the hike. We then wound out that we had hiked around 12 MILES! that day, no wonder we were tired. So that evening we all drove home feeling quite good about what we had done.
                                                                                        By Patrick of the 1ST. Bayfield Scouts.