Under the Rocks and Stones

[pyat]

After dropping Erin off at work, I drove to Mount Nemo and hiked for an hour. I'm trying get in some aerobic exercise. I still work out a couple of times a week, but I've otherwise been sitting in the house. Mount Nemo is a very cool spot, with 1000 year old cedars, and a lookout point across a plain of farmland toward Rattlesnake Point and Nassagaweya Canyon.


If you squint, you can also see Toronto rising like some sort of legendary citadel out of the brown haze of smog. According to Google Maps, the CN Tower (the largest tower) is 46.15 kilometres (26.68 miles) as the crow flies from the spot where I took that photo.





Where the sidewalk ends. It's a 200 foot drop. The cliff edge atop Mount Nemo itself. It's not much of a mountain, granted, but around we we take what we can get.


This appears in the woods, just off the trail. Presumably it was something to do with the old quarry that used to operate in the area. The mound of rocks behind the concrete wall is not natural, and there are stairs leading into a earth/leaf filled foundation in front of it. It reminded me very much of something from a D&D adventure.


The secret stair!


Sasquatch alert! I tried to get a photo of myself at the base of this quarry wall for scale, but couldn't get to it before the camera went off.


Rattlesnake Point.

Comments

[relee.livejournal.com]

Around here they tend to tear down the cool spots to build cities. I think this region was very cool before the city was built, though it's always been populated. The mouth of the St. Clair river has been an important place as long as there have been people on North America. For at least four thousand years, anyways, probably longer.

There's some nice woodsy places on the edges but it's mostly farmland all around. Flat and farmland for a very long distance. You have to go pretty far to get someplace REALLY cool.