Registration takes place at Ceperly Park. Participants start off around the park alone, by twos and in groups, on foot, on bikes and in wheelchairs, often identifying themselves with balloons or T-shirts promoting Rape Relief. The 15km route travels counter clockwise around the Park back to the final checkpoint at Second Beach. The picnic, the finale of the Walk, takes place at the Parks Board cook site above the playground. The food, the atmosphere and the company are all excellent.
Old acquaintances mix and catch up on the year s news and activity.
Information, conversation, entertainment, refreshments and a chance for a well deserved rest in the sun are all available. Like no other event, the Picnic marks each year and celebrates the shared work of the House Funding Committee and the Rape Relief Collective. While governments were busy cutting their funding of feminist groups, many women and a few men were becoming more outraged at the damage done by male violence towards women.