Blue Mountain

You may have heard, or not. That this hiking trailing/ area is in jeopardy of being wiped out by a new development within the HRM. I am not here to take a stance either way. Arguments can be made for both sides. All I really want to say is, I did the hike. It is an incredible view of a large portion of HRM. I highly recommend you get out and do it. Especially if there is a chance it will not be around forever. Read the full story here,  http://thechronicleherald.ca/community/halifax/1207117-halifax-park-in-limbo

 One major issue with this hike, and the whole park area in general is there is little info about it. It was not the easiest to find (even though its minutes outside of the city). The trail head is at the end of a residential road that offers basically no parking (you can park on the road). Also you need to basically trespass through a private woodlot in order to get to the trail that takes you up the back side of the mountain (mountain being a reasonable hill). Basically you can really tell that the area is in limbo, and a decision on what to do with it has not been made.

That is all I really have to say about that, I will lay out some pics to show you the trail head, and some guiding photos to get you to the top. ENJOY! And GET OUT AND HIKE!

I will post the driving directions at the bottom.

 up here for a bit. 

 if you are enjoying the sounds of nature you'll here a stream. walk over it.

 ignore that right. 

 DON'T GO THIS WAY!!! (well I mean you could I guess, but don't)

WHEN YOU SEE THIS LOG....

 hang a right. 

 up here

 andddddd LEFT. we are now at the actual trail head.

 #TrailHead

 keep left. (oh and a big thanks to the mobile trail pointer. shes great)

 couple bridges on the way. 

 please please avoid that middle log.

 lil mud. Don't wear you're church shoes. 

 better bridge. 

 mid left of the pic. see the pink? those mark the trail. Not all are on the trees.

 I wouldn't trust that rope with my life

see the dots? those are bugs. At the beginning of May too, so watch out... 

I'm not gonna post any pics of the view in this post. I'll let you see for yourself. 

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/44%C2%B042'00.8%22N+63%C2%B045'00.0%22W/@44.700233,-63.75,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0?hl=en

(Hike starts at the end of Anahid Dr.)

A Unique Perspective

Had a chance to take a few landscapes from the Juno Towers. A northern perspective of the rest of Halifax. (woulda been a good day for the telephoto....)

 looking at the Navy fleet and the casino. 

 Wud up Citadel. 

Harbour party boat

Frame it!

Liscomb Island

 As it says on the image, this is a picture of the lighthouse from the 70s. This is one of the only images we could find of the site still intact. Not a lot seems to be known about this site, your basic Google search yields very little information or history. So we decided it made sense to go check it out. See if we couldn't find Jack and the hatch ourselves.  

Biggest mistake we made? trusting Google maps. We knew their was a power line with poles that crossed the island from our starting tip (top left of map) to the lighthouse site (bottom left). That knowledge paired with this image reassured us that we had a straight shot across the island....................

 found the power lines

few trees across the "trail"

oh gawd! it got worse, so much worse. At some point during the bush whacking my favorite flipflops got ripped off of my pack and are now being raised by deer in the wild. #RIP

We decided to cut our losses and head back to the coast and try our luck there. 

 Much better. Other than a few death cliffs and a couple crevices, it was pretty smooth sailing.

 (everything for this trip was shot on a GoPro)

Just about there

 oh, ohhhh, somethings peeking

 Touch down! PS the whole site is surrounded by knee deep bogs. Some shoes were harmed in the making of this blog. 

 As you can see there are significantly less building versus the 1970s pic.

4 8 15 16 23 42 

 wasn't me, I swear.

Oh, and I know that it was foggy at 3am.

More "neat" pics

 Polly's Cove

 lookin' at Peggy

 couple loonies

 Swiss Air memorial 

 that sunset 

 pop pop

 ECL?

Ol' Pegger, sans mirror