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September 2004 trip
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When I reached the town at the end
of the James Bay Road, Radisson, I opted to stay in a motel as
it was pouring rain and cold. Yeah, yeah ... I'm getting soft! |
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Rather than sit around in the
motel room, in spite of the weather, I got out and drove around
to take a look at the huge LG2 dam and power generation
facilities. This dam is as high as the Place Ville-Marie tower
in Montreal. (over 50 stories tall).
Sorry, not a very good photo in the rain.
There's more (and better) photos of this elsewhere on this
website. |
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On Monday it had stopped raining,
and I headed back south. I only had 5 days for this trip.
However, even though I was limited in time, I decided to at
least get a taste of the
Trans-Taiga Road. This is an extremely remote road that
runs 700 km east almost to Labrador. There are no towns along
it, only a few hunting lodges.
This is a very lonely road, unpaved for its entire length.
However, it is very wide and well graded. |
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A nice tamarack marsh-swamp along
the way. |
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As I was driving along a sudden
loud noise from one of the rear wheels on my car brought me to a
worried halt. It turned out to be merely a stone caught between
the brake drum and the wheel rim, but it brought home to me the
remoteness of this road. |
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A photo of the typical forest
along this portion of the road (92 km east from the James Bay
Road). |
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Here's where I turned around, at
km 100. In the 100 km back to the James Bay Road, I passed
only 2 or 3 other vehicles.
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Along this road, as well as the
James Bay Road, the Cree Indians of the area have established
hunt camps. These are the only buildings you will see as the
road unwinds beneath your tires. |
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View of a nice lake in the
distance. This lake is actually part of the reservoir for the
massive hydro-electric facility at Radisson (where the giant dam
is). The highlight of the trip back was seeing two wolves
playing on the road up ahead!! They took off long before I got
close enough to take a photograph.
I really want to come back and drive the whole length of this
road sometime soon! Remote roads like this are for me what a
streetlight is for a moth. (see
September 2005 Travelogue) |
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