Journal Entries

After over 2300 trail miles over four years, my Thermarest has a hole in it. Honestly when I first bought it, I thought it wouldn’t last a month based on how thin the fabric feels. I am now a believer. This thing has been worth every penny. Now... if I could only find the hole... thanks to the beavers, I can start looking.

@hammerhead and @karentogo navigating their way across the first of many stream crossings.

Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at the Broad Brook trailhead on the southern border of Vemont.

A pile of gear and the first five days worth of food... fine tuned and ready to be stuffed in a pack. We head to Vermont tonight!

One new addition and one replacement to the collection: a Solomon Skin Pro 2 15L day pack (fantasticly comfortable!) and a new pair of Dirty Girl gaiters.

One of the less used sections of trail that we encountered along the way.

The trails are very easy, and bike friendly. The multi-use trails are wide, smooth, and have frequent picnic table stops along the way. The hiking only trails are easy, and, despite being wide and relatively flat, also quite pretty.

Now that we have an all-access park pass to Quebec's "national" (i.e. provincial) parks, we are starting to explore more of the hiking options within a reasonable driving distance from Montreal.

Today we decided to check out Park National de la Yamaska, which is a large-ish park surrounding the Choiniere Reservoir. Around the circumference of the reservoir are trails, beaches, campgrounds, and picnic areas. We decided to circumnavigate the reservoir by stringing together a series of hiking trails an multi-use trails. All told, it was a 19km day on very flat, but very pretty terrain.

The trails wind through old fields, abandoned apple orchards, and re-planted forests (as seen from the rows of trees in this photo).

White blaze.