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Real great to spend the afternoon in the woods with this guy. A rare treat these days.

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Near the top now.

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We started off carrying our snowshoes since wearing snowshoes is only energy efficient when you truly need them, otherwise it’s just a lot of effort. Shortly after this photo @toesalad put in his snowshoes.

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That makes 4 weekends in a row that we have been in Vermont... I am not complaining though. Today's hike was a short jaunt up Manadnock Mountain with nice views from a restored fire-tower. Thankfully, it was cold, windy, and bug-free in the tower. That was not the case on the way up however...

Exploring a short trail as we head back home after dropping some kids off at summer camp. Not as campers, but as councillors...

@reneetougas and @celine finding refuge from the black flies and a view of the landscape from a high (breezy) tower near La Tuque, QC.

And that would be black fly season... if you closed your eyes you would swear it was raining out. But no, it was just the black flies hitting the tent.

We did More exploring around Quebec this weekend, this time we found ourselves in the region just south of Reserve Faunique Mastigouche which led to some more waterfalls. One thing is certain... Quebec has a lot of water.

Sometimes when you try something new, you find something you didn’t expect. That was the case this weekend when for Mother’s Day @reneetougas and I decided to drive along the corridor that follows the Sentier Nationale towards Quebec City to see what interesting things we might find.

We discovered Les Chutes du $5 ($5 Falls), at the intersection between a river (Riviere Bastican), a small town (Notre-Dame-de-Montauban), and the Sentier Nationale. Named for being the waterfall featured on the Canadian $5 bill in 1954... but apparently that claim to fame isn’t actually true (the Internet told us this afterwards). The real name is Fall of Nine because it was the ninth port settlers reached travelling up river. (The Internet told us this too).

Either way it was a beautiful discovery along the way.

Back in the Laurentians with @reneetougas, checking out the state of the trails in the Parc National du Mont Tremblant.