Stuff You See Along Highway 35

I needed to stretch my legs, check in wasn't until 4PM up at Billie Bear so I decided to do a short hike near the Leslie Frost Forest Centre property. A fence has gone  up, most likely last year to discourage trespassers and the Urbex community. The facility closed in the early 00s due to cut backs with the provincial government, the primary use was to train forest rangers and act as a support for university level forestry programs. 

Now the trails are scalable from like 3km up to 12km depending on your ambition, endurance and timing. In my case, it was timing. I did my beer run at Boshkung Brewing back down in Minden I just wanted a short break and then head up to Dorset for another short break(next blog post). The big was, it looked like it wanted to rain but the skies didn't open up. It was sunny back down in Beaverton/Lake Simcoe, but by the time I got over to 35 it was solid overcast skies (peachy), not the end of the world. It just dictated which colour film I was using. 


Camera: Nikon F4, Nikkor Ais lenses. 

Film: Kodak Color Plus 200 



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