In the morning we got an introduction into map reading. We studied the Dunn Lake Park map to decide where possible trails could be developed e.g. Baldy or Simpcw territory. Both areas seemed to be suitable but as there is still snow up on Baldy we looked into a possible round trip directly from the campground up to a peak that lies before Mount Fennel, which we could even see from our campsite.
This route could go along ridges and peaks with possible nice views for trail users to surrounding Mountains and/or Dunn Lake. Start and end would be the campsite which makes it easy accessible for visitors. We decided on a route with a creek as left handrail and a dirt road as right handrail. Handrails define the border or limit, when we hit these than we know we have to go backwards.
We were introduced into leading, route finding in the Forrest, scoping and reading the terrain for possible trail building and interpretation of our position on the map while bush walking along our pre-determined route. We all took turns in leading the way and Craig recorded the GPS route for further considerations.
Useful tools for GPS-ing are Topo Canada, which is a free app with topographic maps of Canada and GPS tracking apps to record a route. The latter generates for example .gpx files which could be with other tools and maps in the planning process.
We found our way to the top along our route but haven't been rewarded with a nice Dunn Lake view yet. The lack of time forced us to head back instead of scoping out the top area more.
On our way down we came along many dead, fallen tries but we eventually found the way back to the campsite as planned.
