As our only hiking trip on vacation, we decided to hike up the favorite blueberry mountain. Now, there are no hiking trails in Canada since there are so few people — so we just make our way up the mountain the best we can. Our guides (Aunt Carla and Uncle Andy) did a really good job leading us up and down approximately the same path. The mountain is called blueberry mountain because there are lots of blueberry bushes along the way. However, this year there were way fewer blueberries on blueberry mountain than were on blueberry island. We found lots of bear scat on our way up the mountain indicating that the bears were having a good time eating blueberries. We did end up getting enough blueberries for Grandma to make blueberry pancakes the next day. On a side note: I much prefer blueberry picking on blueberry island than blueberry mountain, because then you don’t have to worry so much about dumping the blueberries on your way back down the mountain.
We like doing the blueberry mountain hike because it has great views at the top of both Lake LaCloche and the North Channel of Lake Huron. Thankfully, there was a nice breeze when we got to the top – and we all relaxed and enjoyed the view and breeze once we got there.
