As The Travel Tester, I love to try out products, accommodation, tours and activities all around the world! To give you the best advice on whether you should use them as well, I’ve created a short test report. Not only will you find all the information you need to book or buy yourself, but I will also show you my experience and tell you what for type of traveller this product or service is suited best.
Today, we’re looking at the Snowshoe Tour I did in Mont-Tremblant, Canada at the beginning of 2014 during the #LoveWinter campaign.
How to Snowshoe in Quebec, Canada? Take a Fireman Tour!
Company Name: Tremblant Activity Centre
Website: tremblantactivities.com
Tour Name: The fireman snowshoe tour
Tour Website: tremblantactivities.com/a-mont-tremblant-snowshoeing-tours
Number of Hours: Approximately 2 hours
Price: $54 adult and $44 child (8-11 yrs)
Start: Everyday 10 a.m. from the Tremblant Activity Centre, Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada
End: Tremblant Activity Centre, Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, Canada
If you have questions on what to wear (Summer and Winter) check this page.
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The Travel Tester in Action:
Our guide Richard was very funny and knew a lot about the nature around us
Originally, the snowshoes were made of a hardwood frame with lattices, but these days you’ll get the plastic ones. Getting the snowshoes on with your thick gloves is a bit hard, but once they are on, they are so much fun to walk in!
The scenery is just incredible! With the snowshoes, we were able to climb some hills and easily plough through the thick snow.
We crossed a part of the ski slope, so watch out for skiers and snowboarders!
Besides tracking animals and survival in the wild, our guide has more hidden talents: he plays a traditional French-Canadian folk song for us
Want to hear the song? Check out this video I made!
Richard tells us to look out for animal tracks and not soon after we spot a cute dear!
… and he brought his friends too!
More animal signs: holes made by a Yellow Belly Sap Sucker Woodpecker (or so I have been told)
I LOVE Winter :)
If you want to survive in the wild, you need a couple of basic skills. such as finding the North (look at the limbs of the trees) and making fire with what you can find around you, such as chaga (fungus), shavings from a cedar tree and a strip of bark from a dead white birch tree.
And then there was fire. Incroyable, as they say here. – Incredible!
We watch in awe and record it all…
The Verdict:
I had never tried snowshoeing before, and I loved it! It’s perfect if you would like to do an outdoor activity, but you’re not such an adventure seeker or don’t want to ski or snowboard. As they say themselves: “If you can walk, you can snowshoe!”
What I like specifically about this tour, was the funny guide who showed us all around the area and taught us a bit about survival out in the wild and the animals you can come across. Definitely something different, so I would be happy to recommend this tour to you!
If you would like to see more, check out this video made by Caspar Diederik during out trip to Canada:
Love Winter in Quebec! from StoryTravelers on Vimeo.
I hope this report answer you question ‘How to Snowshoe in Canada’! Did you ever go snowshoeing? Where did you do this? Let me know!
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