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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | May 31, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Kingston |
| County: | Ontario, CAN |
| State: | Ontario, Canada |
| Boxes: | 4 |
| Planted by: | Norasta  |
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| Found by: | Jiggs |
| Last found: | May 9, 2019 |
| Status: | FFFFFF |
| Last edited: | May 31, 2005 |
“Marshlands” is the Kingston end of the Rideau Trail, 387 Km trail than runs from Ottawa in the north to the southern trailhead in Kingston. Location map here: http://www.rideautrail.org/
Access is from “Trailhead Place” a new street that may not be on your map. Heading west on King it will be your second right turn (north) after Portsmouth Ave., just past the golf course. You’ll see a brown sign “Marshlands”. The parking lot is off Trailhead, immediately on your right. The main trail is marked intermittently with orange triangles. These stamps were inspired by an old school book, “Weeds and Grasses of Ontario”. The 4 boxes should take about an hour to 90 minutes round trip. Parts of trail can be muddy. You will pass through swampy areas so bring your insect repellant. This is a safe area to hike but a few of the side trails (one of which you will be one) are sometimes used for full sun exposure by vitamin D fans and by nude wrestlers! So you may wish to whistle or sing as you go.
BARLEY From parking lot head north on the main trail until you see a lone spruce with some droopy branches in a clearing on your left. STAY ON THE MAIN TRAIL, past the weeping spruce. A few steps further you’ll see a winding trail on your left that goes through a meadow towards some evergreens. Proceed west 58 steps on this trail until you come to a trail on the RT going north. Turn on this narrow trail and go about 25 steps. A lovely big spruce is now on your left and the LB. Find the branch the reaches out to you in a southeasterly direction. Examine this branch carefully. Start at the tip and scan toward the main trunk. About 4 feet from the tip you notice a wire across the branch just past where the branch splits in 3. Gently pull on the wire lifting to the right. will find BARLEY. Be sure to put this back in the same location on the branch – 4 feet in.
BUCKWHEAT From Barley head DIRECTLY EAST to another lovely spruce, you can see it from #1. Gently part the lower branches on the southern side of this spruce. Buckwheat is on the ground. Return to the little trail where you found Barley.
OATS Continue down the little path heading northeast, it will take you back to the main trail. These small trails change but just head eastward back to the main trail avoiding the cattail area and remember to sing and whistle, esp if the weather is nice. Once back on the main trail (orange triangles) continue northward and downward. Eventually the trail bends right. Just BEFORE the RT bend you’ll notice 3 clumps of very large trees. It's easy to miss them so keep a lookout. You'll know you are in the right place if you see a pale granite boulder on your left, just off the trail about 2 feet across and 9 inces high.Look up. Check out the BIG trees. Go to the widowmaker, 3rd clump. It has 3 tall trunks with lots of broken branches. Look on the northeastern side of the most northerly trunk. Buried beneath some bark and twigs you’ll find OATS.
MUSTARD Continue on main trail, generally northward and along the golf course fence. Eventually you will see an apartment bldg off in the distance. On your left you’ll see a sign about the wildlife habitat of the area. Cross the boardwalk. Soon the trail comes to a train track. Cross the track. The trail splits, go north, across another boardwalk, this one a little tipsy. At the end of this boardwalk on the left you will see a cut trunk, 2 –3 feet high. Look inside for MUSTARD. From here you have two choices to head back to the parking lot.
Option one - turn around and back track.
Option two takes you back via the train track:
From the end of the boardwalk go north 70 steps, the trail forks, turn RT or EAST. You will reach the train track again, head south walking on the track. You will see the trail that you crossed previously and the boardwalk - this time on your right. Now you will have a long walk along the track heading south past a 2nd swampy areas with no trails. This track is occasionally used by a slow moving train so be prepared to move quickly, particularly if you are in the swampy area with no easy exit to the side! Eventually you will see a narrow trail on the left through some pine trees. This side trail will take you back to the main trail and your starting point. Walk along the northern edge of the pine grove with the swamp on your left, past the cattails on the left. Turn RT on main trail to see the widowmaker once more. Continue southward back to the parking area.
Access is from “Trailhead Place” a new street that may not be on your map. Heading west on King it will be your second right turn (north) after Portsmouth Ave., just past the golf course. You’ll see a brown sign “Marshlands”. The parking lot is off Trailhead, immediately on your right. The main trail is marked intermittently with orange triangles. These stamps were inspired by an old school book, “Weeds and Grasses of Ontario”. The 4 boxes should take about an hour to 90 minutes round trip. Parts of trail can be muddy. You will pass through swampy areas so bring your insect repellant. This is a safe area to hike but a few of the side trails (one of which you will be one) are sometimes used for full sun exposure by vitamin D fans and by nude wrestlers! So you may wish to whistle or sing as you go.
BARLEY From parking lot head north on the main trail until you see a lone spruce with some droopy branches in a clearing on your left. STAY ON THE MAIN TRAIL, past the weeping spruce. A few steps further you’ll see a winding trail on your left that goes through a meadow towards some evergreens. Proceed west 58 steps on this trail until you come to a trail on the RT going north. Turn on this narrow trail and go about 25 steps. A lovely big spruce is now on your left and the LB. Find the branch the reaches out to you in a southeasterly direction. Examine this branch carefully. Start at the tip and scan toward the main trunk. About 4 feet from the tip you notice a wire across the branch just past where the branch splits in 3. Gently pull on the wire lifting to the right. will find BARLEY. Be sure to put this back in the same location on the branch – 4 feet in.
BUCKWHEAT From Barley head DIRECTLY EAST to another lovely spruce, you can see it from #1. Gently part the lower branches on the southern side of this spruce. Buckwheat is on the ground. Return to the little trail where you found Barley.
OATS Continue down the little path heading northeast, it will take you back to the main trail. These small trails change but just head eastward back to the main trail avoiding the cattail area and remember to sing and whistle, esp if the weather is nice. Once back on the main trail (orange triangles) continue northward and downward. Eventually the trail bends right. Just BEFORE the RT bend you’ll notice 3 clumps of very large trees. It's easy to miss them so keep a lookout. You'll know you are in the right place if you see a pale granite boulder on your left, just off the trail about 2 feet across and 9 inces high.Look up. Check out the BIG trees. Go to the widowmaker, 3rd clump. It has 3 tall trunks with lots of broken branches. Look on the northeastern side of the most northerly trunk. Buried beneath some bark and twigs you’ll find OATS.
MUSTARD Continue on main trail, generally northward and along the golf course fence. Eventually you will see an apartment bldg off in the distance. On your left you’ll see a sign about the wildlife habitat of the area. Cross the boardwalk. Soon the trail comes to a train track. Cross the track. The trail splits, go north, across another boardwalk, this one a little tipsy. At the end of this boardwalk on the left you will see a cut trunk, 2 –3 feet high. Look inside for MUSTARD. From here you have two choices to head back to the parking lot.
Option one - turn around and back track.
Option two takes you back via the train track:
From the end of the boardwalk go north 70 steps, the trail forks, turn RT or EAST. You will reach the train track again, head south walking on the track. You will see the trail that you crossed previously and the boardwalk - this time on your right. Now you will have a long walk along the track heading south past a 2nd swampy areas with no trails. This track is occasionally used by a slow moving train so be prepared to move quickly, particularly if you are in the swampy area with no easy exit to the side! Eventually you will see a narrow trail on the left through some pine trees. This side trail will take you back to the main trail and your starting point. Walk along the northern edge of the pine grove with the swamp on your left, past the cattails on the left. Turn RT on main trail to see the widowmaker once more. Continue southward back to the parking area.