Easter Break Day 8: Tablelands, Pasadena

Barren land

The Tablelands is a mountain that is famous for its "red" rocks which according to scientist is thought to have originated from the Earth's mantle (the liquid layer under the Earth's crust). Since the mantle is rich in iron and nickle, it gives the rock its reddish-orange colour. All the documentary say the Tablelands is red, but on both the occasions I have hiked that trail- the first time at the beginning of April when it was still covered in snow, and the second time at the beginning of June- the rocks have always been yellow-brown to me. I wonder, maybe the Tableland rocks reveal a different colour in the summer and in the middle of the day and under the sun?

André-Anne's "shistaouk"

The Anna inukshuk, et non shistaouk (André-Anne mistaken the word shistaouk for an inukshuk).  After an hour of trekking in at times thigh-high snow, we arrive at the end of the Tableland trail to this view of the meeting of the mountains. I was very glad that I was not hiking this trail on my own in the middle of the "winter", because although the snow is beautiful as itself and preserves the pristine, non-disturbed state of the surroundings, it can feel a bit eerie when the wind whistles and when the clouds take over the sun.  It is then you really reminded that there is indeed not a soul around, not even visible signs of life from plants since there is little vegetation. .

Pasadena. I don't have a good photo from our stay in Pasadena, but I just wanted to comment it is a really quaint little community along the Humber River, and that we had a lovely stay with Gaëlle and Yoan our other Odyssée colleages. Out of the thirteen moniteurs assigned to Newfoundland for 2012-2013, I am happy to have the occasion to meet up with nine of them all scattered around the island, and in Labrador. It is true what they told us at training, that our colleagues in the room would be our "family" for the next year, people with whom we embark on adventures with, friends who we can visit, companions on this chapter of our Odyssey in Newfoundland.