"We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and by the very nature of their enterprises leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated.......We take this as a given for it is the foundation of our system, the way commerce extracts value and profit in a resource-driven economy. But if you think about it, especially from the perspective of so many other cultures, touched and inspired by quite different visions of life and land, it appears to be a very odd and highly anomalous human behavior."
-Wade Davis in The Wayfinders

May 24, 2009

Some Pictures

Only a few days away from leaving for the Romaine. There is plenty of water right now. The gauge is around 250cms. It will probably slowly drop over the next week or so. Long range weather forecast for Havre-Saint-Peirre is fairly dry, but its always hard to tell what happens up on the plateau. We'll probably do one or two more updates before heading into the wilderness so stay tuned.

Camping on La Riviere Jacques Cartier
Lower half of 2nd Triple Drop at the perfect water level
BOOF!!!

The Rocher in Port Cartier is a fun roadside classic

Disappearing on the Rocher (ok its a bad photo taken about 2 seconds too late)

Putting in on the Malbaie

Joe Barkley firing off Chocolate Milk (Gatineau Falls) on the Malbaie

One of three photos taken on this high energy Taureau run. We were focused intently on the river that day.
Posted by FredC

2 comments:

jibber said...

SICKO!
go jake, go fred.
gonna miss this trip...

August 28, 2008 at 8:56 AM
jibber said...

Sicko!

August 28, 2008 at 8:57 AM

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