This is one of our best hikes.   It is 14 km long, but if you can plan a two-car system and start high, much of the hiking is easy.   It starts at the edge of the McQueen Lake property, not far from the Day Center/Smiling Pond.    Crossing meadows, mixed forest, ridges, creek gullies, bridges, and tracks, it eventually emerges into the open grasslands, heading east over a ridge (viewpoint) and descends to the Westsyde Hills near Deep Lake.   The far end is at Ida Lane.   This is a special hike, one to be done every year.