Matane Wildlife Reserve: The Rugged and Everishing Chic-Chocs (ECT 232)

• Walking today: 14.8 miles

  • International in: Quebec (158.4 – 173.2)

• Total walking: 4,512.7 miles
• Total rowing: 191.2 miles

Climate: 55-70 ° F, sunny and clear.

Lifting range: 427 – 3,475 feet

Lac Beaulieu to Ruisseau Bascon

When the light had been completely infiltrated inside the shelter, I began to listen to Marie gathering her things. I also started packing, but today, instead of staying and preparing breakfast, I felt that I would go on the way immediately.

Wrapping around the lake there was a beautiful scene. I’m still waiting for a coast of the coast, but it didn’t happen this morning. I saw some wildlife! Upon reaching a castor’s dam, I saw a swimming with his face just above the water. He had an oval route that continued to repeat and slapped his tail from time to time. Well, here, go for yourself …

And in slow motion …

After a moment, I thought that maybe my presence was causing discomfort and slap of the tail was a warning or something. I kept moving to get out of their space. However, he followed the shore, where the path was turned and began to rise abruptly up.

In this transition, there was a sign that told me that Mont Nichol Albert was 8 km away. The elevation profile looked like a larger steep blip immediately to get up around 2,700 feet or so (the lake had about 2,200 feet). And then, once there, it was a series of ups and downs, but smaller on a scale, perhaps in the style of hundreds and three hundred feet. However, before Ole Nichol Albert, he fell to 2,150 before one of the most steep uploads, up to more than 2,900 feet.

My partner Ect’er, Iceman (who has just achieved Cap Gaspe a few days ago and now goes to Prince Eduardo Island) he had told me that it was the worst. I was pleasant and slow and made a 10:00 am summit just in time for the second breakfast.

The upper part of Mont Nichol Albert.

While hung there, a backpacker arrived to the south and really recognized me from the walk. Matt of New Brunswick was walking through the IAT and it was fun to chat with him and get an idea of ​​what is to come. Stephen and Marie who had camped at the shelter last night also appeared. After a long stop, I kept sailing.

In the future, everything was downhill for a while. I obtained some stellar views and then continued next to an absolutely incredible series of waterfalls. First, the waterfalls were inside a tax transmission and then joined the true Ruisseau Beaulieu. There were many day hikers suddenly, all of which were directed upstream, the opposite direction like me.

Impressive, yes? I was amazed by this entire section. These mountains, despite how difficult it was the field of walking, were quickly becoming a favorite part of the ECT.

The path was hard here with many roots and small rocky ups and downs. It was like the at Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire sections, all in one!

Looking on a giant pool, I heard a great splash. Then, below, I saw several people with wet suits (or dry suits?) Post on the rocks watching. There was a person swimming in the deep pool. He had just jump from somewhere above. Wild!

I stopped for lunch when things were leveled, just after crossing a bridge over the Riviere cap chat. And it was there that I went for what my last swimming of the trip could be. Today maybe it reached 70 ° F and was sunny and perfect. But the water was cold! It was quite refreshing and without there was no wind, it was really not bad. I dried quickly. However, in the future, I do not anticipate the increase in air or water temperatures.

This was my swimming hole and my lunch place.

Then, I went on a dirt road for approximately one mile, which was a good break.

And then the last 5 miles rose parallel to Bascon Ruisseau (also known as Bascon Stream, I think). It was not a super steep path and maintained a constant rhythm. There were some sections that slow me, but I could also see Chute Helene through a short side path, which will stand out as one of my favorite places of this Ect trip. Simply incredible!

Here there were all the different types of interesting rocks, some that had a coating and texture such as graphite and others with intrusions that extended for everything.

Then, only one or two miles left to reach the shelter. Once at the crossroads for the lateral path, I filled water and leaked down in the current, which was now quite small that was above in the elevation, and then I went to find it. This is properly called the Bascon Risseau refuge.

No one was at home on shelter or tent platforms. I enjoyed my ramen bomb and then organized for a big day tomorrow. It has been nice to go to the camp in the late morning and get early with the shortest mileage days I have had. That is not happening tomorrow! I will explain more in the next publication, but tonight once again I did what I could to rest because I knew it would be tested the next day.

Talking to other hikers around here, they have told me that «they have a good trip.» At first, I thought it was a kind of a slight bad translation of a person, but no, now I have heard it several times. I like it. I suppose it is the equivalent of «having a good trip» or «having a good walk», but yes, the travel appearance resonated to me. And today, today it was a good trip!

(PD, once again, I have stayed behind in my writing and climbing due to some of the remote sections I am walking through, so if there is a parenthesis in the publications, I only know that the trip continues!)

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«Cun’s interventions and songs» (2003) – The format

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