| Max and LFoDNH: thanks for your replies.
The thing that was frustrating me was the difficulty finding critical evaluations of trails in the area I was visiting (St. Mary's Bay/Annapolis Valley). The web was full of Tourist board stuff and relatively uninformative mentions of trails.
I ended up doing some nice day hiking on Brier Island (fairly flat, but gorgeous) and ran into some backpackers there.
Since I couldn't make it to Halifax and didn't locate any good gear places in Yarmouth, I went and visited some gear at the Freeport outlets (e.g. Patagonia, TNF and LLBean). |