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Let the Walking Begin

August 28, 2021

Submitted by Bryson Guptill, Island Walk Ambassador After months of thinking, designing, and coordinating, directional signs for the Island Walk are now popping up all over the Island. The signs are being installed by highway crews from the PEI Department of Transportation and they conform all with all applicable signage laws and regulations. In addition [read more…]

Sporting Intentions new store

Top 5 things that hikers need from Sporting Intentions

October 23, 2020

Sporting Intentions is celebrating the grand opening of their new location at 190 Minna Jane Drive, Charlottetown, PE, this October 2020 and we wanted to celebrate with them by sharing the top 5 hiking gear products that you can pick up at Sporting Intentions!   [read more…]

Blisters & Long Distance Walking

July 6, 2020

By Nora Wotton In general, everyone who decides to do a long distance walk, does some training.  We increase the length of our training walks and try to incorporate different terrain, such as hills.  We want to avoid having to abandon our walk due to lack of conditioning.  We also want to break in our [read more…]

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Why I walk

April 21, 2020

By Nora Wotton I’ve done four long distance, multi-week walks, so I often get asked, Why?  You think that after the first time, I’d have a good answer, but I can’t say that I do.  I’m really not sure why I like doing these relatively arduous walks. They’re hard. I’ve pretty well always carried all [read more…]

Cavendish Beach

A Stroll Along Cavendish Beach to MacKenzie’s Brook

April 21, 2020

By Bryson Guptill, Island Walk Ambassador When we walked the Island Walk in October we were especially excited about walking along the shore in the PEI National Park.   Our official route stayed on the main road, but our preference would have been to detour into Cavendish Grove at 2.17 km (right across the road from [read more…]

East Point Beach Walk

A Beach Walk to East Point

April 21, 2020

Written by Bryson Guptill, Island Walk Ambassador When we completed our Island Walk in October, 2019, one of our favorite walks was our beach walk to East Point, PEI along the Northside beach.  Beach walks are always special – sand dunes, marram grass, and ocean waves crashing at your feet. The Northside beach is especially [read more…]

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