I Did It

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It has been a few months since I decided I was going to walk the entire Vedder River Rotary Trail and I finally finished it twice yesterday. I say twice because each day I walked, I then doubled my walk because I had to go back to my car. I don’t expect that I will ever walk the entire 20+ km route in one day, but now that I know where I am going, I will be able to avoid all the wrong turns that added many additional steps to this walk.

I decided to start at the beginning of the trail and from there I could walk the opposite direction to get back to the spot where I stopped & turned back a couple of days ago.

Here is the sign pointing to the south side of the Vedder River
I am now almost across the bridge and looking down to the river.

This is the only part of the trail that has ups & downs to the walk. Some of them are fairly steep and I surprised myself that I did as well as I did. I have avoided walking up hills because I used to have to stop and catch my breath – but I was fine and kept going at the same pace. I am certainly not ready to start climbing mountains, but it felt good to be able to keep on walking.

Looking down over the park from opposite side of river
trail is on sidewalk for a short time
This part is uphill, but not very steep
I’m on the right trail 🙂
A look down at the Vedder River
Still on the trail
Heading down & into the bush
Trail is in great shape

I think I had gone about 1/2 a km from the start, so the trail would be 20 1/2 km long all together. I just have to get back to the last parking lot which was at about 17 1/2 km, so this will be a fairly short walk.

I just liked the look of this dead tree
Starting to climb up here
view of the river
came all the way up to the highway and will be going down again soon
They are ripping this mountain apart
At the highway level, we can see more of the river
I haven’t found many Chickadees here who like to pose, for me but this little guy did.
Almost there
I’m not sure if this is a challenge for the bicyclists to hit the walkers or not.

Here it is – this is the parking spot where I stopped last time, so I have now finished the trail. Once I walk back to my car it will be 2 complete walks!

This young man had to walk his scooter all the way home because it died on him. I’m not sure how long he had been walking by the time I saw him.
Back to the road for a short distance
Just have to cross the bridge

That is it – back to the parking lot and it felt good to complete the entire trail. 🙂

I am not sure why they don’t give a total distance for this trail instead of 20+ km. My thoughts are that is is between 20.5 km to 21 km. I think I walked almost 1 km before I reached the 20km sign on the trail.

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4 thoughts on “I Did It”

  1. Congratulations on completely mastering this trail! It’s all I can do to stumble through the steps I’m getting in here, and there you are tearing it up! Well done! I agree that that is a very peculiar sign. Are you required to strike a pedestrian whilst riding your bike en route to meet the turtle at the top? It would seem so! If there is an artistic complexity to the composition, it eludes me!

    Happy Trails indeed! Cheers, Stumblebum

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  2. LOL – thanks Tim. It sure felt good to finally finish that trail and I know I’ll be doing it again, but in fewer days. Now I know where I will be going, so I won’t waste so much time trying to figure out where to go at each turn.
    Glad I’m not the only one who wondered about that sign. There must be other newbies who spend extra time trying to figure out which way to go.

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