Arrived at the lodge, it's dark, there are mountains, it has almost everything I can tell you about my first impressions, I'm still sacrament worried! We meet the staff, very nice, typical Quebecois really! A guy says he will look for our dinner and then he then takes us to our place in the forest, he came back some minutes later with a mini cooler in hand, I say directly that we will have enough to eat! Julien, Sarah, his brother Gregory and I follow the guide, a 10-minute walk in the forest in the snowy darkness cuts into, not very reassuring, in addition to the guide is blagueuse mood, we made a guess that belong traces of animals in the forest, needless to say that my level of panic has reached its maximum at that time the! On the way to our igloo, we hear wolves finally what I believe to be the wolves that are in fact the huskies. Voila how we find ourselves in the midst of 86 sled dogs in the forest / mountain Quebec in complete darkness! Finally arrived al place where we sleep (just after passing a sign prohibited access anyway) first surprise: it is not an igloo ...
... It's basically a shack, rustic lost in the middle of the forest! There was not enough snow to make an igloo, it would have had to come later in the season! Not even have time to be disappointed when we discover inside the cabin, the table is set for dinner, the place is very warm, lighting the candle, a wood fire (as we have it very hard to maintain !) Brief elsewhere and we are definitely going through an extraordinary experience! The menu has the Chinese fondue, bison meat, potatoes (which were actually in the mini cooler in question!) Desserts homemade apple, a real treat! Can not we keep from laughing in hindsight on the situation, and heard the dogs make sounds of wolves (I'm no vocabulary noise sorry dog!) And seeing us trying desperately to keep the fire! (Heavy thoughts for someone with whom we have not had any problems with the fire that night!)
A traumatic experience of toilets in the middle of the forest later, our extraordinary evening continues wrapped in our sleeping bags at $ 500 was made to withstand -40 (comforting huh?), pictures in the snow, playing cards, battle to keep the fire sheet rock scissors to decide who comes out of his sleeping bag to put a log ... We fall asleep in our cabin in Canada!
The Rise ... Ouch ... It's cold, very cold, the fire died overnight, the wind through the door of the hut is between -5 and -10 (Gregory, if by chance you read this article one day, I wish you were heads and that you admit that it was not 10 degrees!) he must get out of his sleeping bag and dress warmly well to face the outside temperature! You put 5 layers of clothes, bye bye to our cabin in Canada, towards breakfast, we discover the landscape in the light of day, really beautiful, all white, we pass the middle of huskies, a surreal moment ...
Breakfast swallows, the first step towards the day hiking in snowshoes! After some minor technical problems from the family Eliot, we plunge into the forest, we cross bridges, pieces of frozen river or not, all buried under the snow, a really superb. A few drops later, back to our starting point this time to the dog sled. It's very difficult to put into words the emotions this year, even more difficult to describe this episode. This is absolutely crazy, already you still have time to realize that is to be cruised in the Canadian mountains by dog sled, I remember smiling like an idiot all along! It's cold, it snows, the dogs do as they head (especially mine, of course, otherwise it would be funny!) It stops at the top of the mountain to take pictures and enjoy the dogs - well yes even I stroked the dogs was not won yet! - You feel exhilarated, the kind of euphoria "oh my god, I'm on a sled in the mountains in Canada!" An unforgettable moment, one of my favorites unbelievable this month on the road!
Snowshoe Fall
After that we went for a walk in central Quebec City, it was very cold and there was a snowstorm but it was very pretty with the colors of Christmas as you can see from the photos
Here is the story of this incredible episode, was difficult to transcribe the written word as it is supported by strong emotions ... as has been the month of December and the first half ...
I fall asleep tonight butterflies in my stomach, I returned to London and my girlfriend Joan Singaporean who was only one semester and with whom I shared all my best times this year I left a note and a beautiful photo montage of us ... I probably never see her again, it's really hard to feel a sense that someone like that escapes you, I have no words, all I can say is that it hurts stomach ...
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