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- Killarney Provincial Park is located on the
northern shore of Georgian Bay, southwest of
Sudbury, Ontario.
- The park was set up in 1964 partly through
the efforts of the Ontario Society of Artists,
better known as the "Group of Seven." The
Group of Seven travelled all over the Canadian
Great Lakes region, painting the landscape, mainly
during the first half of the 20th century. A
good collection of their work is to be found
at the McMichael
Gallery in Kleinburg, Ontario, north of Toronto.
- At the east and west ends of the campground
(a bit of a challenge to locate, actually) are
the trailheads for the La Cloche Silhouette Trail,
which will take you in a large loop (about 100
km) around the park and require at least a week
to complete. The Little Superior area in the
Silver Peaks section takes two days to hike out
and one back.
- Killarney features a striking landscape of
rugged quartzite ridges surrounded by many small
to large-size lakes and low-lying bog areas.
The southern ridges offer amazing views of Georgian
Bay to the south and the La Cloche Mountains
to the north. They require substantial
effort to climb (from a hiker's point of view),
but the results are well worth it. The
barren isolation of parts of the ridges together
with the extreme deformity of the vegetation
combine to put one in touch with one's mortality.
It's a defiant, stoic sense, though, not resignation:
the trees are deformed by the wind and the cold,
but they manage to persevere nevertheless, eking
a life seemingly from the rocks themselves.
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