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What is an End to End? What is involved in completing it?
An End-to-End is the completion of the entire main Bruce Trail (currently 885 km) on foot.
This can be done over 30 days or several years depending on how you'd like to approach it.
- Hiking the whole Trail
- Hiking each Trail Section: Club Badges
- Hiking with Clubs: Organized End-to-End Hikes
If you decide to go ahead with an end-to-end hike, it is highly recommended that you purchase the current Bruce Trail Reference Guide, especially if you are going to attempt any of the sections on your own. The guide will be an invaluable resource in planning your trips. The guide can be purchased at major bookstores and through the BTC website.
Visit our Accommodation and Camping section for more information on places to stay during your trip.
To be recognized as an official End-to-Ender with the Bruce Trail Conservancy, you will need to do the following:
- Send us your trail logs*
- Be a member at the time you complete your end-to-end
- Provide us with the date you completed your end-to-end
- Send us $15 to cover the costs of processing your end-to-end and to pay for your end-to-end badge.
*The trail logs can be as simple as list of where you started and where you ended on a particular day. It might be worth having a separate page for each club section.
Hiking each Trail Section: Club Badges
Each Bruce Trail Club also offers a badge for completing its section of the trail. To obtain a Club's End-to-End badge, submit your trail logs for that Club's section directly to the Club. Include a self-addressed envelope and the fee for the badge (usually between $3 and $6).
If you complete the entire trail, keeping your trail logs organized by Club section will make it easier to sort out which pages you need to send to which Club when you apply for the badge.
Badges from each Bruce Trail Club:
Hiking with Clubs: Organized End-to-End Hikes
Most of the nine Bruce Trail Clubs offer organized end-to-end hiking opportunities. Usually they are run over 1 or 2 weekends and the Club will have water/snack stations along the trail on those days. There is a registration fee to participate in these organized hikes and you'll get your badge at the end of the weekend. You do not need to submit trail logs for these events.
2012 End-to-End Hikes
Pre-registration is required for most of these hikes. Please visit the appropriate Club website for details and to confirm the End-to-End dates and locations.
| Niagara |
May 19-21, 2012 (Victoria Day Weekend) |
| Iroquoia |
October 20-21 and 27-28, 2012 |
| Toronto |
Sept. 22 & 23 |
| Caledon |
Oct 6-8, 2012 (Thanksgiving Weekend) |
| Dufferin Hi-Land | |
| Blue Mountains | May 26-27, 2012 Details online |
| Beaver Valley | No full End-to-End for 2012 (Usually held on odd-numbered years over two weekends). Consider joining the "Falling Waters Trail End-to-End" (30.9 km) Sept. 1, 2012 Experience a 30.9 km hike that traverses the beautiful, rugged upper Beaver Valley and during which you will never be far from the sound of falling water. To register send a $10.00 cheque (made out to the Beaver Valley Bruce Trail Club) to Joëlle Martin, P.O. Box 3251, Meaford, N4L 1A5, 519-538-5766. Please include your name, telephone number and e-mail address. Fee will cover refreshments and the special FWT hike badge awarded to each hiker who completes the hike. |
| Sydenham |
To commemorate Sydenham BTC's 50th Anniversary, the SBTC is pleased to
offer an End-to-End hike in the spring and autumn of 2012, over 4 weekends:
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| Peninsula |
9 days of hiking in August & September 2012. |