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Kate 14:57 on 2024-05-14 Permalink Reply  

• EmilyG 18:52 on 2024-05-14 Permalink

  I heard of two people doing that, but starting from the opposite end.

  I’ve been thinking myself of walking the entire length of Gouin, but not all at once.

• Matthew Surridge 15:41 on 2024-05-15 Permalink

  EmilyG: You may be thinking of my girlfriend and me; something like 16 years ago we did the walk from west to east, and wrote about it for the Gazette. That was at midsummer, so we had much better weather. We tended to stick to main roads, too, so a very different experience than this one.

• Kate 16:09 on 2024-05-15 Permalink

  Yes, I couldn’t help thinking that Dan Schaumann’s walk would’ve been more agreeable if he’d waited till this time of year, or even done it in the fall, especially the parkland sequences.

• FKA Orr 07:59 on 2024-05-16 Permalink

  Montreal being a long & skinny island, It’s not far to walk across the island north-south (“Montreal” north-south lol). We often do it on nice weather days, there is a lot of variety as you can choose many different north-south-axes to stroll along. Sometimes we bring our “Geological map of Montreal Island” for reference, and there are several “hidden watercourse” maps in the internet to reveal hints of where to look for traces of where rivers and creeks used to flow.

• Ian 09:42 on 2024-05-16 Permalink

  If you go out to Parc du Bout-de-l’Île you can walk from the north to the south of the island in 5 minutes 😀

  That said I’ve walked from St Larry to where it ends in Ahuntsic down to King Edward Quay, it’s only about 2 and a half hours and as Orr points out, a very doable walk.

• EmilyG 12:42 on 2024-05-16 Permalink

  Matthew: Yes, that’s what I was thinking of. Thank you. I remember it was in the Gazette and it was on the first day of summer.