This morning I enjoyed a walk on the Corkstown Road trails near the Nepean Equestrian Park. While I often use the parking lot on Corkstown Road as a launch point for my cycling journeys on the nearby Greenbelt and Watt’s Creek Pathways, I hadn’t been on the numbered trails beginning at the Corkstown Road parking lot since the mid 1990s when a friend of mine and his competitive skier father and I would go skiing there. I clearly remember the ups and downs on the trail and that is one reason why I went for a walk there today, to see the ups and downs. As I mentioned in a previous PBlog entry, the landscape here offers little relief to eyes that want to see something other than flat terrain and lately I've had a yearning for that relief.
 
The open field north of the parking lot sits higher than the surrounding landscape and gives this pleasant view of the distant Gatineau Hills. The trails here resemble those in Gatineau Park where steep vertical drops and rising rocky outcrops are the norm. The one difference is here the rock is limestone and not the nicer pink granite found in the Gatineau Hills.