Pat Turow remembered

Picture above shows Anne Faubert of London, Ann Hoover of Aylmer, Loretta Vaughan of Port Stanley and Pat (seventy at the time) after they hiked 900 km from Port Stanley to Tobermory over five years. Pat’s favourite memories of the trip were using ladders…

Card of thanks to trail maintenance crew.

Received this week and it is nice to see that the teacher and students took the time to thank our trail maintenance crew. Nice to know others outside the club appreciate the effort put forth by our volunteers. Good job to our trail maintenance…

Dutton-Dunwich hike on Trans Canada Trail

Eleven of us starting the end-to-end of Dutton/Dunwich Trans Canada Trail. The weather was cool yet quite comfortable for the 9.4 km hike this morning. There were many spring flowers in bloom and the birds were singing away. The maintenance folks were busy this…

Annual bluebell hike

Loretta’s Presidents message

As I write my last President’s Message I would like to say Thanks to the current Executive for all their support. Walking has always been my passion since high school and my service to this club has been because of this devotion; and the…

Annual inter club bus/hike in Halton Hills

Mark the date: Saturday Aug.29th, 2015 All Day Event Must pre-register and pre-pay with Pat at pat-tilman@rogers.com Cost is $30 per seat, cheque payable to TVTA. Once contacted Pat will send information. Join us for our annual inter club bus/hike, we will be hiking…

Go to blazes days volunteers

WOW! What productive “Go To Blazes Days” we have had! THANK YOU EVERY-ONE! The Sunset Drive reroute is blazed; boardwalk repaired (which is ongoing) and weeds slashed! The trail is in good shape. Today we started a trail survey; one kit at the red…

Virginia Bluebells in bloom

Today when checking on the Virginia bluebells we ran into a group of 45 hikers from the TVTA Ramblers. The sky was mostly overcast with the occasional showing of sunshine. While hiking we noticed grosbeaks, orioles, common yellowthroat and indigo bunting. Hopefully the bluebells…

Virginia Bluebells hike in early May

Eight visitors from the West Elgin Nature Club with leader Marg Hulls joined four from our club to see if the bluebells were in bloom. It was a little early. The weather was great. Several other caches were found on the trail. The confusing…

Annual AGM tonight

AGM April 23 7pm St Thomas Library We have also started trail maintanence. Thank you to the 8 members who came out today and accomplished so much! Remaining dates all start at 10 am April 25 May 9 May 23 with lunch provided (RSVP…