My memory sucks but I think as you stated the second week of December would be correct.

The trails that were cut in Milverton area, are all field trails.  We hope to sign all of ours and have them open this year    To the south of us, Ellice Swampers had closed the swamp, but will do there best to open it as well.

First 45km of trail is open. Dec 5th. Got to be close to a record. 

Got to respect the honesty there. Lol. 

Exactly        In speaking to a bunch of club members from all over, all of them basically said the same thing. They are going to start doing their best to reopen the important small cuts they sacrificed to keep larger connections open. Stuff like the 1 to 10km spur trails leading to services and popular access points. Then deal with the other stuff if extra manpower shows up and timing allows.