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I've actually been here: http://mrgris.com/travel/blog/labrador/2/ http://mrgris.com/travel/blog/labrador/2/ Quite a weird place, though definitely not 50m tal

I've actually been here: http://mrgris.com/travel/blog/labrador/2/ http://mrgris.com/travel/blog/labrador/2/ Quite a weird place, though definitely not 50m tall.

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japhyr 5y ago
Back in the 90s I lived in NYC and took a bicycle trip to Chibougamau, and then another summer rode a motorcycle as far as I could on pavement along the St Lawrence river. Your blog took me right back to those adventures; thanks so much for sharing!
xwdv 5y ago
The title should be changed as this currently makes it clickbait. I was expecting a wall of over 164 feet in height.
samwillis 5y ago
Pretty sure its a typo and meant to say 50ft, which is about 15m or about 2.7m/floor plus another 1.5m extra for the roof for the five story buildings you can see in the pictures. That looks like an incredible trip!
SECProto 5y ago
Yup, 15m ("quinzaine mètres") tall. https://caniapiscau.ca/attraits/mur-ecran/ https://caniapiscau.ca/attraits/mur-ecran/
- francislavoie 5y ago
  Interesting, I think the English version of that page was mistranslated as per https://web.archive.org/web/20060421035031/http://www.caniapiscau.net/tourism/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060421035031/http://www.caniap... which seems like an old version of that same website. Fifteen and Fifty are easy to mix up.
  - SECProto 5y ago
    Yup, and looks to have persisted until at least 2012 [2] and then by 2013 [2] they just removed the English website as far as I can tell. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120904222048/http://www.caniapiscau.net/en/tourism/activities-attractions/attractions-sightseeing https://web.archive.org/web/20120904222048/http://www.caniap... [2] redirected to https://web.archive.org/web/20130720073238/http://www.caniapiscau.net/fr/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130720073238/http://www.caniap...
melissalobos 5y ago
Thanks for sharing this, I have always wanted to go to Labrador. Just need much higher resolution pictures(send back a mirrorless DSLR to 2009?).
TimedToasts 5y ago
I enjoyed the blog entries and am definitely jealous! :)
ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
That's a cool blog. I like the way that you switch between your side, and your wife's.
soared 5y ago
> But driving 150 miles one-way only to find an uncrossable ditch would be a rude surprise. My oxen would die trying to ford that river, so to speak. This is my favorite kind of blog, excellent stuff.
brokenodometer 5y ago
I didn’t expect to end up reading this whole thing, but I did and really enjoyed it! Love a good old fashioned travelblog without the bs “hacks”, ads, and affiliate links.
- stringfood 5y ago
  I always appreciate how HN links to sites that hardly have any ads, reminds me of old internet pages from a few years ago
tomcam 5y ago
Wonderful post. I have a feeling they did something very right by making the interior corridor so wide. I imagine it feel a lot more open. Did the noisy ventilation at least keep it from smelling bad?
jat850 5y ago
I have to say that the Northern store in the Labrador pics was a massive nostalgia throwback.
rotifer 5y ago
From a bit later in the trip is a photo from the shore of Manicouagan Reservoir. According to Wikipedia [1], it's an annular lake formed about 214 million years ago by the impact of a meteor 5 km in diameter. It has an outer diameter of about 72 km, and it's "the Earth's sixth-largest confirmed impact crater according to rim-to-rim diameter", and one of the oldest known. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicouagan_Reservoir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicouagan_Reservoir
- VHRanger 5y ago
  There are a few oddly shaped lakes in the inconceivably large northern part of Quebec. One of my favorites is lake mistassini[1], an immense lake shaped like claw marks 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mistassini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mistassini
LegitShady 5y ago
good ol bear sector. It doesn't surprise me that small mining towns have strip clubs. Lots of people temporarily move to work there and are lacking in human comforts of all types.
stringfood 5y ago
I like your website, like a digital scrapbook immortalized online

I've actually been here: http://mrgris.com/travel/blog/labrador/2/ http://mrgris.com/travel/blog/labrador/2/ Quite a weird place, though definitely not 50m tall.

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japhyr 5y ago

Back in the 90s I lived in NYC and took a bicycle trip to Chibougamau, and then another summer rode a motorcycle as far as I could on pavement along the St Lawrence river. Your blog took me right back to those adventures; thanks so much for sharing!

xwdv 5y ago

The title should be changed as this currently makes it clickbait. I was expecting a wall of over 164 feet in height.

samwillis 5y ago

Pretty sure its a typo and meant to say 50ft, which is about 15m or about 2.7m/floor plus another 1.5m extra for the roof for the five story buildings you can see in the pictures. That looks like an incredible trip!

SECProto 5y ago

Yup, 15m ("quinzaine mètres") tall. https://caniapiscau.ca/attraits/mur-ecran/ https://caniapiscau.ca/attraits/mur-ecran/

francislavoie 5y ago
Interesting, I think the English version of that page was mistranslated as per https://web.archive.org/web/20060421035031/http://www.caniapiscau.net/tourism/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060421035031/http://www.caniap... which seems like an old version of that same website. Fifteen and Fifty are easy to mix up.
- SECProto 5y ago
  Yup, and looks to have persisted until at least 2012 [2] and then by 2013 [2] they just removed the English website as far as I can tell. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120904222048/http://www.caniapiscau.net/en/tourism/activities-attractions/attractions-sightseeing https://web.archive.org/web/20120904222048/http://www.caniap... [2] redirected to https://web.archive.org/web/20130720073238/http://www.caniapiscau.net/fr/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130720073238/http://www.caniap...

melissalobos 5y ago

Thanks for sharing this, I have always wanted to go to Labrador. Just need much higher resolution pictures(send back a mirrorless DSLR to 2009?).

TimedToasts 5y ago

I enjoyed the blog entries and am definitely jealous! :)

ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago

That's a cool blog. I like the way that you switch between your side, and your wife's.

soared 5y ago

> But driving 150 miles one-way only to find an uncrossable ditch would be a rude surprise. My oxen would die trying to ford that river, so to speak. This is my favorite kind of blog, excellent stuff.

brokenodometer 5y ago

I didn’t expect to end up reading this whole thing, but I did and really enjoyed it! Love a good old fashioned travelblog without the bs “hacks”, ads, and affiliate links.

stringfood 5y ago
I always appreciate how HN links to sites that hardly have any ads, reminds me of old internet pages from a few years ago

tomcam 5y ago

Wonderful post. I have a feeling they did something very right by making the interior corridor so wide. I imagine it feel a lot more open. Did the noisy ventilation at least keep it from smelling bad?

jat850 5y ago

I have to say that the Northern store in the Labrador pics was a massive nostalgia throwback.

rotifer 5y ago

From a bit later in the trip is a photo from the shore of Manicouagan Reservoir. According to Wikipedia [1], it's an annular lake formed about 214 million years ago by the impact of a meteor 5 km in diameter. It has an outer diameter of about 72 km, and it's "the Earth's sixth-largest confirmed impact crater according to rim-to-rim diameter", and one of the oldest known. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicouagan_Reservoir https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicouagan_Reservoir

VHRanger 5y ago
There are a few oddly shaped lakes in the inconceivably large northern part of Quebec. One of my favorites is lake mistassini[1], an immense lake shaped like claw marks 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mistassini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mistassini

LegitShady 5y ago

good ol bear sector. It doesn't surprise me that small mining towns have strip clubs. Lots of people temporarily move to work there and are lacking in human comforts of all types.

stringfood 5y ago

I like your website, like a digital scrapbook immortalized online