We say it often: it is a small world. It truly is! Through my job in Nunavik, I had to contact someone who worked in the Torngat National Park, and after a 45 minute work-related discussion, we realized that we had met 14 years ago in Inuvik, NWT! Not only that, Angus had come to my dog yard to feed my dogs, and later in Whitehorse, I went with him to a store to buy a harness and a "backpack" for his dog and some metal snaps. Angus then worked in Gros Morne National Park. I had already planned to go to Gros Morne in the summer, but Angus convinced me (very easily!) that Gros Morne was an amazing place to visit in the winter too. That's all it took to start the planning process, and ... read more

After a few weeks in the office, and thanks to one of my coworkers, I got the incredible privilege to join an expedition organized for a group of police cadets in one of our newly created national park: Kurrurjuaq Park. This park, at the Quebec-Labrador border protects part of the Torngat Mountains, and includes the highest peak of Quebec: Mont d'Iberville. I was obviously extremely excited to go there for many reasons: I always love to be in the field, it was a chance to see another beautiful park, to hike for 10 days and maybe get to the top of our highest peak in Quebec. But it was also exciting for another reason: as many people know, when I was a 10 year old girl, a man came to our classroom to talked to us ... read more

I just came back a few days ago from an amazing trip in my own country! 3 of my colleagues and I skied from the crater in Pingualuit Park, Nunavik, back to the village of Kangiqsujuaq. Just finding dates when everybody was available prooved to be a challenge and then we had trouble booking our flight to the village as there was a paraski competition the same week and many people were flying to Kangiqsujuaq. Isabelle and I had to fly 2 days before Julie and Mélanie, which in the end was a good thing as it gave me more time to explore this amazing village of less than 500 inhabitants. Kangiqsujuaq means "large bay" (which we were to confirm eventually!) and the house were we stayed was right on the shore with a fantastic view ... read more

I just arrived in Guatemala 2 days ago. RAiny season, that must be why it is raining. I can only laugh that I picked this destination because I wanted to go to a hot sunny place. Oh, I did read the fine prints but they said it would rain only a couple hours a day. Oh well, can;t complain. I just hope my hair will dry between now and next week. Antigua is a really nice city and of course I am just so happy to be traveling again. It;s funny that my brain seems to compare everything with India rather than my own country! So I arrived without too much trouble to this beautiful city, where I am taking Spanish lessons for a couple of weeks before traveling a bit outside of the ANtigua area. ... read more

After over a month of working in front of a computer on a big report, I finally had the chance to go out in the field. That was soooooo nice! The idea was to explore some areas of the future park on which we are currently working, to see what the potential was for hiking. In other words, 2 colleagues and I had the amazing opportunity to be dropped off by float plane somewhere on the shore of the George River, and from there we had to walk to a small mountain called Pyramide Mountain, from where we were going to be picked up a few days later. Waw! Can't beat it. I love that feeling of traveling with all what we need on our backs, walking in areas where maybe only some Inuit and Naskapis ... read more