Pictures of Canada (some may be big)

Grasshopper359 · 04-22-2005, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by OneHope

Quebec City is amazing, I love it there.

In that case...

La Gare du Palais. I climbed up on top of the Potasse to get it, and it was a long way to the ground if I fell, but it's a good shot...

Grasshopper359 · 06-06-2005, 08:52 PM

The main battery at La Citadelle du Québec. The big one at the far end was named "Rachel".

*warning*

Big.

Te eF Kay · 03-15-2007, 10:50 PM

Canada looks cool!
even for someone who lives in NZ

!

Grasshopper359 · 06-05-2007, 11:06 AM

Canada is cool. There's a bit of everything here, from large forests, to near desert, to arctic tundra.

J_freek · 06-05-2007, 07:40 PM

I might have some pics to add when I go up in August.
Hopefully some of the worlds biggest indoor waterpark...if there aren't some already.

tropicana · 06-06-2007, 02:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Grasshopper359

The main battery at La Citadelle du Québec. The big one at the far end was named "Rachel".

*warning*

Big.

Awesome picture, Kyle. I just got back from Quebec City, and I loved it. So much history. Though, they never tell you that most of Old Quebec (and lots of the sights) is really uphill from the Gare du Palais. I nearly died making it to Rue St-Louis with my luggage.

Grasshopper359 · 08-13-2007, 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by tropicana

Awesome picture, Kyle. I just got back from Quebec City, and I loved it. So much history. Though, they never tell you that most of Old Quebec (and lots of the sights) is really uphill from the Gare du Palais. I nearly died making it to Rue St-Louis with my luggage.

I travel light.

Pretty much everything is uphill from the Gare du Palais. I do the trek from the Lower City up to the Upper City, and up the hill to the Citadelle every week. See, because I have a vehicle clearance sticker for the base on my car, I can park at the Citadelle for free. Last summer was utter hell, though. Driving up La Grande Allée in a car with a standard transmission is bad enough, but last summer, they were building that stupid fountain across from the Assembly, so traffic was reduced to one lane with a light that indicated which direction could go.

This year, most of the time, I just park at the Public Library, though. It's $4 to park all day, and fighting traffic up the hill isn't worth the effort, because I burn nearly that much in gas just sitting in traffic. No thanks, I'll pay the four bucks and walk up the staircase.

What did you see while you were here?

tropicana · 08-23-2007, 11:13 PM

I saw pretty much everything that was free in Old Quebec; I spent a lot of time walking around. I stayed at the Auberge Internationale on Ste-Ursule, so I was more or less walking distance from everything in that part of town. I really dug the street musicians that were around when I was there.
I was also visiting a friend from last summer who lives in QC, so I spent a bunch of time sitting around campfires near Stoneham ski resort, with her and her friends.

Grasshopper359 · 11-10-2007, 10:35 AM

I did my night drive on my HLVW course down from Stoneham. I had the exhaust brake on pretty much the whole time, and I was still nervous, because I was picking up so much speed going down the 73 back towards the base that the curves in the road were close to impossible to navigate. I did that same route a year and a half earlier, on my MLVW course, but it was worse. The MLVW doesn't have an exhaust brake, and it was winter...And I had chains on the wheels, too.