Camping at Riviere des Rats

Friday I left work around noon, and by 2 pm my friends had shown up and we hit the road around 3pm. We caught heavy traffic around the 640 leading to the 15, in fact we lost most of our time on the 640, thinking it would be better then the 40 across Montreal - but not this time.

A butterfly that landed on my tablecloth

After which we took the 40 to the 55 at Trois-Rivieres, passed through Shawinigan, Grand-mere and headed towards La Tuque. We made a pit stop in Grand-Mere, gassed up and picked up some groceries. We crossed the St Maurice river at Riviere des Rats and went in the Zec Wessoneau.  It cost us $35 total, that included the $10 for the bridge and the 3 nights of camping, plus a right of passage for both of us.  We camped along riviere des rats, around the 22km mark of the road.

The cliff on the other side of rivere aux rats

 I stayed up till like 7 am as I was hoping to take photo's of dawn but it was extremely cloudy at dawn. However it was interesting as the light came up, since it was dark by the time we set up our tent.  We realized that the river we were camped next to had a huge cliff on the other side, and that for all intents and purposes we were at the bottom of a big cliff.

It was extremely quiet. Other then a couple of 4-wheelers and one or two trucks per day, no one went by the road.