Back in May I did a mountain bike ride that included some of the Partridge Hills near Durrance Lake and thought to myself: “I should do a hike here.” Apparently, it takes me about a month to act on thoughts I have while bike riding – I guess this doesn’t apply to all thoughts while riding, otherwise I probably would have ended up in a ditch through inaction by now. Tonight, exactly one month after thinking about doing it, I did a Partridge Hills hike.
Nice trails, nice forest, nice water views… not much else to say.
GPS Data: 6.1km – 1h43m – GPS route
A 6km hike at Partridge Hills near Victoria, BC. Click on the map to see detailed GPS information on the Garmin website.
I'm not usually a fan of out-and-back hikes, but in this case it was all good because I do like winding, rolling, interesting trails.
Nice view north towards Bamberton from the top of Partridge Hills. I think pretty much any outing, hike, bike, or whatever, is better when you get a viewpoint like this.
Arbutus trees were fairly plentiful on the way up to the top of the hill. I won't complain, because I like Arbutus trees.
Oops, another Arbutus.
The rest of the Wednesday hikers on the way back down the hill from the summit.
It's like an Arbutus attack. Actually, I think I stuck this in because I liked how blue the sky was.
Sunlight through trees in the forest is pretty much alway cool looking to me.
Back at Durrance Lake at the end of the hike. There were a few Bald Eagles flying around making a bunch of noise, but I failed miserably in my attempts to take a picture of them.
A raisin toast hero also always chooses a sweet hike – Thanks!
I seem to remember someone yelling at the eagles – great pictures!