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    The more relaxed Hiking club

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    Today was a beautiful day for a hike .Apart for a minor mixup where i ended up on the easier hike things were wonderful. We travelled along the KVR trail from Kaleden's Pioneer Park to Banbury Green Point.
                      Temperatures were near 17c no wind in the morning and loads of birdlife and animals to be seen. Many Poplar trees are leafing out (in my younger years 19 years old )I worked briefely for a herbalist collecting Poplar tree buds to make Balm of Gillead ointment. https://p6.secure.hostingprod.com/@www.anointedoils.com/ssl/balm_of_gilead.html still sold today for reducing swelling and for minor surface cuts, insect bites, stings and skin abrasions, inflammations due to rheumatism and arthritis, gout, muscle aches and pains, athlete's foot, poison ivy/oak and for dry and scaly skin conditions such as psoriasis and dry eczema ( i wonder if you can drink it ?)
                    Cherry trees escaped from cultivation were in bloom along with many Oregon grape shrubs.We saw a Bull Snake sunning itself on the side of the trail.A Goose family was in the water protecting two young chicks.
                     On the return trip we diverted off the trail onto the Kaleden Lakeshore drive and experienced the beautiful fragrance of the Koreanspice Viburnum (Viburnum Carlesii) http://www.google.ca/search?q=korean+spice+viburnum+viburnum+carlesii&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-ca:IE-SearchBox&rlz=1I7RNWN&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=3e_BTcrOEfHUiALJ0tCoAw&ved=0CEUQsAQ&biw=1007&bih=669. At the return to Pioneer Park in Kaleden there was a Red flowering Current in bloom (Ribes Sanguineum) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribes_sanguineum
                        A very enjoyable morning led by Randy. Some people stayed after for a hearty lunch of weiners (tube Steaks).I had to attend to another task.

    • 4 May 2011
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