>>2698278This was about 5 years ago.
>be me>end of high school, going on a camping trip in Canada with my buddy>we live in New England, and we're going to the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec. About 7 hour road trip to get there. If you want to have a sense for the areas I'm talking about look up a map.>it's May, so there's still a good bit of snow on the ground up there, patchy at lower elevations, enough that we brought snowshoes for the mountains. Picrel, not mine but from the same park same time of year (didn't feel like digging up the photos from my old hard drive).>Pile all our shit into my buddy's old jeep cherokee and head up. >Some snafus on the way, have to spend a day finding a part for the car in New Brunswick, camp in a parking lot, it's all good. >Get up to Gaspésie National Park. The north coast of the peninsula is along the St. Lawrence River east of Quebec City and not urban, but there are consistently houses, businesses, fishing infrastructure along it.>The national park is pretty much right in the center of the peninsula, along the one road that goes north-south through the peninsula. It's rural and wild as fuck, we see tons of moose, awesome mountains, and almost nobody around because it's not tourist season yet. >We didn't really make plans for places to stay, so camp illegally in hidden spots around the park, on turnouts, river access roads, wherever, just set up the tent next to the car and use it as a base for hiking, snowshoeing, exploring the area. It's awesome, nobody bothers us>One day decide to drive around the east point of the peninsula. It should be a couple hours road trip, but it's really cool coastline with cliffs. So we drive north on the road out of the park to the north coast, then east along the coastal road. Then once we round the east tip at the city of Gaspé, you can keep going south along the coast or go west inland, through the middle of the peninsula then rejoin the coastal road going back west towards the park1/2
