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This year, the winter season has been less than kind to Étienne Brûlé Park. The park, which took a beating in February during a flash thaw, took another one on Saturday when torrential downpours caused parts of the Humber River to spill its banks. On Sunday, we went down to the park to survey the damage, and we have to say that parts of Étienne Brûlé feel more like a treacherous obstacle course than a park. Since February, the city has tried to clear some of the paths, but huge chunks of ice still block most of the walkways near the Old Mill entrance. The parking lot, which sits at the base of the bridge at the end of Old Mill Road, is still entirely obscured by pools of water and dirty, and increasingly dangerous, sheets of ice. We managed to climb over or around most of the obstacles, but recent rains and the warmer weather have weakened a lot of the ice sheets, and we fell through several of them.

Old Mill station offers a brief respite from the dirty grey walls of the subway’s usual monotony of underground tunnels. Crossing over the Humber River, the windows of the station offer a view of daylight and trees in either direction. Not surprisingly, Old Mill station is also the start point for another of the city’s Discovery Walks: the Humber RIver, Old Mill and Marshes.

Step right up, kids. Not too close though, you don't want to scare the rock people away. We know that you look at those precariously balanced piles of rocks on the beach or—in this case—in the Humber River and think to yourselves that there must be more to this than simply resting one rock on top of another. Surely there are screws, rods, glues, or props of some description used in the construction of these fanciful towers.