TO HELL AND BACK

Unique times create unique opportunities. The plague that has paralyzed the world has left twowheeled pleasure seekers in a conundrum. Fortunately for us, Ontario has more than a million square kilometres of land, more than 119,000 km of paved roads and 71,000 km of gravel roads. Faraway places always beckon, but I thought why not explore the hundreds of unusual things and places to see right in my backyard?

On my trusty old ST1300 and Al McKnight on his Gold Wing, we picked up speed as we left the town of Kirby in our mirrors. Nestled between the verdant hills of the Ganaraska Forest, with the gently rolling, golden fields of the coming harvest rising to our left and right, County Road 9 gracefully escorted us eastward into a rider’s paradise: the beautiful Northumberland Hills.

Stairway to Nowhere

In the bushes at the roadside, just south of the hamlet of Burnley, sits a lonely set of concrete stairs that lead