The rest of what we could see

Yesterday I showed you the view to the next cabin from the look-out, but to be fair, the view was pretty incredible from up there as well. Here are two quick images that show some of the view. The third image was neat because it was something we picked out and zoomed in on with the camera to confirm whether or not we actually saw correctly. On the other side of this huge valley is another lookout from another path within the parc!

To see what we could see

Continuing on from yesterday, I continue the images from the hike in the Gaspésie. We made it up to the intersection you see in the first picture below (from the path on the left towards Tétras) and found it neat. Not shown in the picture here though is the 'side-trail' off to the right that we could (and did) take out to look out point.



Taking that quick trail to the lookout point gave us an idea of where we were headed - well, the 'shortcut' to where we were headed. Having checked out the maps before hand, having a GPS with us and knowing what the previous refuge looked like, we made our-selves an educated guess that the next refuge had to be 'near-by'. Alas, it was near-by, but we would just have to take a different path to get there. The 2 pictures below show the view of the next cabin (not exactly the next refuge on the trail, but a cabin none-the-less) from the lookout point.

Parc national de la Gaspésie

A while back I was taking you through the first day of our trip in the Parc national de la Gaspésie
 but I think that is where I left off. We had two more days of hiking on that trip, and consequently, two more days of images. The day started off with us still in the woods and some more wooden paths through them.



Since we were still in the woods, we had to make our way up and up and up and out of the woods, eventually to peak out over the trees. Looking back the way we came, we catch a glimpse of the lookout tower on the mountain in the background from where we came down the day before!



Finally popping up out of the trees completely we get a decent view, in that same direction, over top of the trees. The neat thing about this image is that we get a decent look at the physical shape of the two lakes and the refuge  (green room in the middle of the two lakes) where we slept the night before AS WELL AS where is is in relation to the lookout tower from the previous day's hike (top left).

Between Mont Jacques-Cartier and the Refuge Tétras 2 of 2

The path from yesterdays post was luckily not like that for the entirety for the entirety of the 5km between the Summit and the Refuge. Here are some of the other views from that trail (including a couple of much improved trails!) The first image showed some snow we came across on the path; a veritable Christmas in July (it in fact was July 25th). The second a little lake (Okay, a pond) right beside where the snow was. The third shows the path descending again below the treeline with a lake in the background. That lake is our destination and if you look really closely, you can see the green metal roof of the Refuge close to the lake in the middle of the trees. Finally, the last image is of a slightly improved path on the way to the Refuge.

One of the dissapointing things about the day that we spent in Gatineau park was that we were 'mostly' looking for waterfalls/water/streams to photograph. Some unforseen hurdles led us no where near these subjects. Most of the day was spent walking along paths like the first image below. The second image below is of the view from the cabin mentioned in the previous two posts.

Gatineau Park Path off P12


View from the Gatineau Park Cabin