{"id":127,"date":"2006-07-31T20:34:14","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T02:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2006-07-31T22:25:44","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T04:25:44","slug":"tunnel-island-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/31\/tunnel-island-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunnel Island Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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View from the chair<\/a>
Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo<\/a>.
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We’ve been summer residents for over 23 years and this is the first time I’ve explored Tunnel Island and it’s almost in the heart of Kenora.<\/p>\n

This is some of the best hiking and biking in the area, very similar to the Minaki trails only more technical and difficult. I rode two basic loop, one to the east of the trail head road and one to the west. I posted a route map here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The  east loop took about 1hr with lots of stops to get over fallen trees that we too big to hop, at least for me, and some un-ridable sections, again for me anyway. This photo is at a spot called the Voyageur Lookout on a high spot on the island looking over the Winnipeg River.<\/p>\n

The east loop took about 1.5 hrs and was even more challenging. This must be where all the local hard core<\/a> riders come out to play. Part way around this loop I fell<\/a> and whacked the camera pretty hard, but it still seems to be working OK.<\/p>\n

The trail provides some excellent views of the Norman Dam<\/a>,  a railway bridge<\/a> and the Winnipeg River<\/a> system. There are also bald eagles nesting on the island which are visible from the trails.<\/p>\n

It was a great ride on a very hot day. It definitely rates a return visit.
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View from the chair Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo. We’ve been summer residents for over 23 years and this is the first time I’ve explored Tunnel Island and it’s almost in the heart of Kenora. This is some of the best hiking and biking in the area, very similar to the Minaki trails only more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-nature","category-the-lake"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}