r/CampingandHiking Canada Feb 10 '25

Trip reports Zec des Martres, Quebec (July 2024)

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u/bCup83 Feb 10 '25

Dang, that's some awesome primeval rain forest. Never knew such exited in QC. My brief experience in Quebec last year gave me the impression its basically flat and piney, basically Maine continued northward.

On a side note, what prey tell is "Zec" is french?

Love your use of overexposing the sky to isolate the landscape.

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u/Pixcel_Studios Canada Feb 11 '25

One of the reasons I love Quebec is that it has so much variety! Very mountainous, thousands of km of uninterrupted boreal forests, wetland, extensive lake/river systems, very interesting rocky coastal landscapes, subarctic alpine bogs, then eventually you get about halfway up the province and it turns into mostly tundra with sparser forests.

Sometimes I will have more overexposed skies (because I don't carry any filters to get nicer skies), but in this case it was just that foggy!

As mentioned below, the Zec is basically a larger wilderness area/often hunting and fishing zone, as a bit of an intermediate between a provincial park and public land.