The trail first crossed the Credit River above the falls and steeply climbed up to the eastern rim of the Credit River valley. The following pictures are from this part of the hike.
Just past the 15.7km mark the trail met Puckering Lane, a picturesque laneway with some nice properties and houses.
At the 16.8km mark the trail crossed McLaren Road and entered the woods heading north east. In this section of the trail there was a bridge crossing a small creek and this sign - very interesting!
At the 18.3km mark, the trail met Willoughby Road and crossed to the north side and back into a beautiful property hugging the escarpment. The property owner had done a very nice job of cutting and trimming the pathways through this section.
At one point in this section I was walking along admiring the beautiful woods and path only to hear a loud scraping noise of metal on metal - I literally jumped and didn't know what is was. I turned and looked and in front of me was an old windmill totally covered in vines (which is why I didn't see it initially) and it was turning in the wind causing the scrapping sound.
Further along Escarpment Road, just before Highway 10, there was a fancy entrance to a property and then the tunnel under Highway 10.
Once under Highway 10, the trail continued to follow Escarpment Road past the Devil's Pulpit Golf Course. This golf course was built by Chris Haney and Scott Abbot who in 1979 invented the Trivial Pursuit board game. By 2010 Trivial Pursuit sales were in excess of $1 billion since it's inception. I'm assuming some of those funds helped build this beautiful golf course.
The trail headed into the woods and climbed through beautiful evergreen woods into a meadow to a high knoll that had incredible views of the surrounding area. Here are some pictures from that part of the trail.
At the 21.8km mark the trail continued to follow along Escarpment Road past some very stunning and interesting farms and properties.
At about the 23.5km mark the trail maps mentioned that the trail and Escarpment Road crossed over the old rail bed of the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway. The following picture shows the old trail bed grown over.
Doing some research when I got home, I found that the Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway began operation in the late 1800's. It was designed and built as a narrow gauge railway and one of the challenges was getting the trains up and down the escarpment at this point. Just south of this previous picture, the tracks descended the escarpment and made turns in a double horseshoe shape. The 2% gradient to the tracks was steep and the horseshoe turns in the tracks had a 500 foot radius, which was pretty tight. In early September 1907, the train heading from Markdale to Toronto, taking 600 passengers to the Toronto Exhibition, came down the escarpment and through these horseshoe turns too quickly and wrecked killing 7 and injuring 114. It was known as The Horseshoe Train Wreck.
At one point walking along Escarpment Road I saw this following scene at my feet near the edge of the road - I thought this would make a very interesting picture!
At the 25.9km mark the trail turned north on St. Andrew's Road past the St. Andrew's Stone Church and Cemetery. A local Presbyterian congregation met as far as back 1820 in a local barn. In 1853 the Stone Church was built.
The trail headed east through fields and some woods where the following pictures were taken.
The trail then went south and met the Escarpment Road again at the 28.4km mark and then generally followed the road through to where it met Airport Road at the 30.6km mark which is where my very long hike ended.
Completed: 281.8km
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