Journals

To celebrate @mypictograph having his momentous 18th birthday, we decided to take a couple car loads of teenagers to Refuge Swaggin, a backcountry cabin on the Sentier National in the Quebec woods. This journal is our shared experience ...

Random Randonée

Randonée is a french word for hiking. This is an on-going journal of day hiking and small hiking trips mostly in the southern Quebec and northern New England (near our home in Montreal) but also some hikes in ...
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Some city canoeing (Montreal is an island so there's a lot of water to paddle) and country canoeing. Country canoeing is definitely my favorite.

Winter 2021

2021 opens on a global pandemic. And where we live in Montreal, QC we are also under stricter lockdown measures, including a curfew. But... we can still go outside and we can still drive to the mountains (not ...
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Winter outings 2020

@toesalad and I have a goal to get out of the city every weekend and do something in the snow, preferably in the mountains. We have four main activity options: snowshoeing, x-country skiing, front country (or resort) downhill ...
A long weekend camping trip to Mont Orford (the area, not the park) with friends. Leaving the city Friday night, hiking on Saturday, relaxing and doing touristy stuff on Sunday, going back home on Monday. #cantons-de-lest #montorford #memphremagog ...

Car Camping

It's my goal to use our Mazda CX-9 as a "camper" for trips, outings, and adventures where it's either difficult to tent or is simply preferable or desirable to have a "camp" vehicle option. I'm not going to ...

Weekend Camping 2019

A journal of our weekend car camping trips summer 2019. My goal is to get out of the city and camp somewhere at least every other weekend.
Built between the years 1826 and 1832, the Rideau Canal is a National Historic Site of Canada and an UNESCO World Heritage Site. Humans have been traveling the waterways of the Rideau region for millennia. But the Rideau ...

Canoeing the Rideau Canal

For our inaugural multi-day canoe camping trip, where we take our canoe on the water and camp along the way, we wanted a fairly easy route that would allow us to get our feet wet, so to speak, ...