In early August we enjoyed 8 days on the beautiful East Coast Trail (ECT), a 312 km coastal hiking trail on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland. It was a great combination of intense physical workout and beautiful nature scenes.

If you plan on thru hiking or section hiking the ECT, check out the website ECT Thru Hike, this website has a ton of information such as transportation to/from trail, individual path distances, road walk distances (I hated walking those), etc.  Also, the website has a really great Google Drive spreadsheet with a huge amount of data (i.e. water sources, campsites), I simply made it available offline to my phone and had access to it anytime.

Below I tried to select 1 photo/video from each day. It may not be the "best" photo for that particular day, but I would consider it the most important. Enjoy!! 

Southern Trailhead: ​46.861000, -52.944894

The weather was great, the weekend was long, and our legs were itching for an overnight backpacking trip. The path of choice was Flamber Head Path on the East Coast Trail; which was only a 1 hr drive from St. John's (see map below).  We decided to keep things tame and do ~10 km (20 km return), which allowed us to see a superb sunrise at Flamber Head. Check out the pics below. 

Summer has arrived and the Gout in my foot has finally subsided; time to get out and enjoy the East Coast Trail.  Last weekend we were in the usual predicament of only having one vehicle, so we decided to do a "loop" walk. The path of choice for us was from Witless Bay to Mobile (also known as Beaches path) and returning on the pavement back to our vehicle. In total, it was a great 11.4 km of walking, and the views along the many rocky beaches were fantastic. Check out the pics, elevation profile, and interactive map below. 

Checked out flatrock yesterday, beautiful as always. Yay for sunshine and nice views.