Please send links to sets of photos and photo-reports dealing with the Woodens River watershed, The Bluff Trail and the Five Bridge Lakes Wilderness Area, and we will list them here. Photo-reports are illustrated trip reports or commentaries. Shorter sets can be sent directly to [email protected].
Video
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The WRWEO YouTube playlist
Everything below, plus the Bluff Trail Stewardship Program films on trail barricades and stewardship work.
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What to bring on The Bluff Trail
WRWEO members David Patriquin and Jim Carwardine talk to Cyril Lunney of CTV's Breakfast Television about what to carry.
- Spring flora on The Bluff Wilderness Hiking Trail June 2015
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The map and compass series 8 films, 2014
Grid coordinates, triangulation, orienting the map, navigating to somewhere you cannot see, and using the sun to tell direction. Made for ages 8–9 and up, and just as useful for adults.
Trips and work days
- Boardwalk replacement, phase one
With before and after pictures.
- Boardwalk replacement, phase two
- Hike out via frozen Frederick Lake
- Board meeting in the parking lot
- Canoe via Frederick Lake
- Setting up the Leave No Trace educational sites, and remediating two ring fires
- Inspecting three possible Leave No Trace campsites
- Images from the sign-in book
- Inspection of The Bluff Trail by DNR
- Sign-in book switch and parking lot clean-up
- WRWEO annual general meeting
- Outdoor Council of Canada classmates hike The Bluff
- Inspection of brush cutting
- Replacing the Leave No Trace stickers
- Woodens River, lower watershed
- Trail day
- Trail building workshop
- Map & compass on The Bluff
Natural history
- Bluff Trail pictures, all seasons
With access to high-resolution, printable versions. Contributed by David Patriquin.
- Two old-growth forest stands in the Five Bridge Lakes Wilderness Area
With access to high-resolution, printable versions.
- Spring flora on The Bluff Trail
- Orchids abound on The Bluff Trail
- 360° panorama with Cranberry and Pot Lakes
- Fall vistas on the Hay Marsh Loop
- Witch hazel in flower
- The red bog orchids
- Olive-sided flycatcher on the Woodens
- Bluff Trail in the fall
- Broom crowberry on The Bluff Trail
Photo-reports
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Canoe trip into the Hay Marsh Loop
Jim Carwardine on the challenges and pleasures of an outing on The Bluff Trail, and one disappointment: garbage left at a site by previous visitors.
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A solo hike on The Bluff Trail
Ben Feltmate.
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Hike with Michael Haynes
Upwards of 65 people joined this one. Photographs contributed by Barbara Klass.
- Young naturalists on The Bluff Trail
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Sunlight dances on the Bluff
From Poetry on The Bluff.
- Trail work
Some older albums may not open
Photograph sets published before about 2016 were posted to Google+ and to Google's short-link service, both of which have since been shut down. Those entries have been left off this page. If you have copies of any WRWEO album that no longer opens, please send them to [email protected] so we can re-post them.