This was our first major (difficult) snowshoe of the season. The weather was nice, cloudy most of the day with the sun peeking out every now and again. The air temperature was about -3 and when in the woods the wind never hit us so we didn't have to worry about the wind chill.
Carmen Trails is listed as a black diamond trail which means its difficult, and they weren't kidding! We started off by taking the High Road (trail 58) first as we wanted to cruise into the finish. Also we had hiked this trail in the summer two years ago and knew that the High Road was indeed quite high. There was a lot of fresh snow from the storm at the end of the week and off the packed trail snow could be as much as two feet deep. It made for a lot of fun playing around in.
Since this trail is fairly busy (the parking lot was overflowing when we got there) there was no wildlife to be seen. The closest we got were some rabbit tracks in the snow. As for scenery there is some amazing views of the Gatineau Valley around Wakefield from the top of the High Road. Well worth the climb!
We hope to go back sometime soon and take the Carmen Trails (non-57,58) which go down and around Lac Carmen. It looked beautiful down there.
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