Today Nesta, our leader, took us to the Gunnar Nilsson Research Forest. I have never been here before. In fact, I didn't think we were allowed at the research facility but we are encouraged and there are well marked trails and and a wonderful lookout as well. Behind the sign, from the parking lot is a great kids playground. Think I'll be coming here again.
Here were my walking partners today. The route was about 4.8 kilometres today but considering we took a wrong turn, I'm sure we stretched it to an even 5 k.
Much of the trail walking was fairly easy and well marked. And after three days of rain, the weather was beautiful - hot(ish) and sunny. And the trails were dry despite all the rain we received.
Here I am on the trail to the lookout.
From the lookout the view was spectacular. It was a lovely place to stop, sip some water and take in the view and chat with the others at this point. That is the Tahini River in the above photo.
And this is Oxbow Lake.
I did say the trails were easy walking and well marked - EXCEPT for this one pictured above. It was so overgrown we thought surely Nesta wouldn't have picked this as a trail, so we back-tracked. Wrong. We returned to bushwhack our way through to follow the map. Thank heavens there are no snakes in the Yukon as this would have been prime land for the reptiles. And we lived to tell the tale!
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