Hikers Distance Award Program

The Hikers Distance Award, a new program offered in the 2009 Hike the Highlands Festival will
include three distances  100 km (Cloud), 50 km (Tree) and 25 km (Flower). Lapel Pins will be offered for hikers who achieve those distances. This program & lapel pin is included with your registration fee. 


 
Program Details - At the festival headquarters, you will be given a Hike the Highlands Festival Pass/Log Book. After each hike you complete, you will ask the guide or sweep to initial your log book.  Generally speaking - you will need a weekend of hiking to achieve 25 km, 5 days or two weekends for 50 km and close to full 10 days to complete 100 kms. To assist you in making your goal - the host committee has developed a formula for harder hikes -  Hikes are rated by incline number and by letter for terrain rating.
If your hike has an incline rating of 4 - you get one extra km, 5 rating - 2 extra km, terrain rating of C - one extra km, and D - 2 extra km. See below the 2010 Hikes table to assist you in your planning. At the end of your stay, you will pass your log book into the festival headquarters, or mail it to Hike the Highlands Festival Society, P.O. Box 239, Ingonish, NS B0C 1K0. We will be mailing out your lapel pins after the festival or pressing them out at the closing ceremonies if you completed the program and distance.

Hike	Distance	Trail Rating	Final Km
Freshwater Lake	1.7 km	1B	1.7 km
White Point	6.5 km	2C	7.5 km
Franey	7.4 km	4C	9.4 km
Meat Cove	3.4 km	5C	6.4 km
Money Point Gulch	7 km	5D	11 km
NHN	4 km	2B	4 km
Sugar Loaf Mtn.	4 km	4D	7 km
Polletts Cove	18 km	5E	23 km
Roberts Mountain	6 km	5C	9 km
Benjies Lake	3km	2B	3 km
Bog	0.5	1B	0.5
Salmon Pool	12.2 km	2C	13.2 km
Acadien	8.4 km	4C	10.4 km
Le Buttereau	1.6 km	2B	1.6 km
Skyline	9.2 km	2B	9.2 km
Fishing Cove	12 km	4C	14 km
Le vieux Chemin du Cap Rouge	9 km	3B	9 km
Guided Wilderness	8 km	4D	11 km
Middle Head	3.8 km	2C	4.8 km
Broad Cove Mtn.	2.3 km	3C	3.3 km
Money Point Light	14 km	5E	19 km
Cape Smokey	11 km	4C	13 km
Clyburn Valley	9 km	2C	10 km
Smokey Towers	2 km	2B	2 km