The First Big One - 30km Gatineau Park Hike

This is my first time posting so here goes........

So yesterday, Saturday April 25, Hai, Lucy and I (Paul) did a 30km hike across Gatineau Park. We started the day at Two Pines on the Eardley Mashame road and hiked to P7. The hike took a total of 10hrs. I would like to shorten that down to 8 or 9hrs by the end of our training.

The first part was off trail hiking with some navigation. (Darrel, thanks for the maps!!) Once we reached the fire tower it was pretty clear which direction we should take, Ridge Road is well traveled and well marked. We didn't see many people along the way. One group of Scouts and two other couples. However we did see three deer corpses along the way.

I can't speak for the others but today I am sore, the knees especially. Today (Sunday) we decided to do our own thing. Hai went climbing, Lucy went for an 18km run (crazy) and I did the usual 30km bike ride along the river. My hope is that by the day of the race walking, biking and paddling 30km is not a big deal.

Pictures to Fallow.....

Thanks to all who have donated!!!

Cheers,

Paul