Mini Blog
4x4 Bike Tour
For Mathilde’s 27th birthday, we takled a new bickpacking.com route called Four by Four. It started near the cottage in Charlevoix and is almost entirely a gravel (and some MTB route). The orginal route starts in L’Anse St-Jean but we started at the parking of Zec du Lac-au-Sable near Clermont which saved us a 3 hour round trip drive. Near Cle... Read more 20 Jul 2026 - 1 minute read
Teton Yurt Trip
We went on a trip to Teton National Park. Matt Spurlin organized a really great trip and assembled a really nice group of people. We skied into the yurt from the Idaho side and spend a few nights there touring during the day and having a good time at night. Skinning towards the yurt, really nice day and warm. Picture of the view from the yur... Read more 15 Mar 2026 - 1 minute read
Search for Quebec's Most Remote Climb
We spend 5 days (long weekend +) in search of Quebec’s most remote climb - Camelot Camping. It was about a 10 hour drive north of Montreal and took about 4-5 days canoe to get there, with quite a bit of white water. Approaching some massive cliffs in the middle of nowhere. JD and Mat scouting an R4. Leading the first pitch, was very dirty... Read more 20 Sep 2025 - less than 1 minute read
Wind Rivers and Tetons
Sami, Tim, Dad and I all had some time off at the end of August so we planned a Wyoming trip. We wanted to try the a backpacking trip in the Wind River Range called Cirque of Towers. It was only 60km with like 1500m of elevation but it was Tim, Dad and Sami’s first backbacking trip and we had to watch out for the altitude as the hike started at ... Read more 10 Aug 2025 - 1 minute read
West Coast Bike Trip
Before starting summer research jobs at Sandia and Mat starting residency in Montreal, we realized we had some time to go on a bike trip. Always wanted to do the west coast bike tour. We started from Portland, OR and finished in LA, CA around 2500km. It was a really nice trip, we camped, we biked throught pretty remote parts of the US and discov... Read more 01 Jun 2025 - 1 minute read