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Started around 5pm from Bus trail and the parking lot was half full. On the Poo Poo Point trail, saw plenty of hikers and runners of all ages and the views from the top were spectacular.
On the way back down, we decided to take another dip into the woods on the Section Line trail (needed the second wind for this one) and where it joins Nook trail, there is an "Unmaintained Trail" sign, and just beyond that I saw what looked like bear scat on the trail. While going down the Nook trail I believe I heard a bear in the bush close to the creek a little distance away from the trail.
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One of my favorite hikes. Trail was in great condition.
Only issue - there is a pond about a mile up the trail on the right hand side that my dogs always love to run in and get a drink and it's always been fine. Today there was some frayed steel cable sticking straight up right where the dogs can walk in. It's not rigid, but could still cause an injury to dog or child if not closely monitored
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A few off-leash dogs, as usual, on Poo Poo Point trail / High School trail. After the junction with One View trail, I didn't see another person until Middle Tiger trail. The TMT closure sign is gone at the junction with TMT-Fifteen Mile, though there was an older Danger: Logging sign that someone left up along the TMT, just after the intersection with Hobart Grade.
TMT is quite overgrown in areas, a little challenging.
The clearcut along the TMT, before the Middle Tiger Trail, is brutal: sunny, exposed, dusty. Wild, but you can see South Tiger from the TMT now that it's all stumps. A work crew was repairing the TMT, thanks folks!
"East Tiger Connector" (which doesn't connect there anymore) between the road over Soderman Creek and Bootleg Trail was incredibly overgrown - no trail closure sign, but I really wouldn't recommend it - easier to go around the old Paw Print Connector way (Fifteenmile Creek / Bootleg).
Lots of ripe berries, still: huckleberry, salmonberry, a few thimbleberries. Flowers are dying back and bit, with some old vanilla leaf and bleeding heart, but foamflower and foxglove still looks fresh. There's a spot along TMT near W Tiger that has ghost pipe and coralroot, and between WT1-Middle Tiger there's some bog wintergreen along it too.
The whole way was runnable except for portions of TMT and that "East Tiger Connector"