Swollen Elbows After Excercise

After goats, vegetables ... the farm not cattle (except of course chickens. these chickens Haaa!) but the tomato, cucumber, potato, apple and more ... all in greenhouses (yes even the apples). And zucchini in a mess (also known as zucchini-Atlantic)! My role, I am eager to accept, is to show enough imagination to cook or rather save all this mass of ... zucchini zucchini soup, zucchini soup, cheese, fried zucchini, zucchini croquettes, omelette with zucchini, zucchini live!

One of the greenhouses and gardens ...

Ha then this is the end of August, time to pick up crannberries fours in the forest and escorted by dogs ... to scare the bear.

It goes hunting for mushrooms with Marcus and large mastiffs ...

... reassure you they were not eaten!

Short Description of Place: Lost in the woods, you have to cross two rivers by canoe to reach a haven of peace ... a pretty cottage in the woods ... dry toilets without doors, to put his shit comfortably among birds, squirrels, trees and dogs that you chat.


(my little hut)

(Attractive toilets with all the comfort ... even playing!)

(John who picks me up in a canoe ...)

(in the motor boat, yes he will have one too, with John and Sarah)

(Little Creek to access a `farm)

I share the place with Marcus woofeur another Austrian who speaks perfect English ... vainard him. And who does not want to leave the place (we understand why) and settled for the winter.
My hosts are nice ... Sarah is an Englishwoman who emigrated to Canada for 5 years. We clap our aperitifs in the evening, she took advantage! She explains that in winter it remains sober. Curious! 'Because I gotta keep my head, there is the Yukon and Yukon if you go out in jeans, sweater because you're too drunk to get dressed, in 10 minutes you're dead ... 'she said! Dammit!
Pending booze flows through the glasses.

The days are long (remember that we are close to the polar cerlce) and the temperature is cold ... - 4 C at dawn. I rushed to the local Emaus and I dug up a pretty pink sweater quite soft "for 1 dollar. Incidentally, I sleep wearing a beautiful hat (a hat) as a good quebecois who respect themselves. Tabarouate! Sarah
on the move, that's good because it brings us a ride often. Visit Tombstone National Park (which is pretty good anyway!). Then another day management Keno, its silver mines and its beautiful landscapes, still.


(a beautiful lake near Dawson)

(another lake)

(Route Keno ... not living souls)

(near Keno)



(Marcus, me and Sarah Keno finally close)

Dawson City is a caricature of her own. It's like being projected a century ago. This small town is the second of the Yukon, with its 1800 inhabitants ... it must be said that there is a total of 30 000 inhabitants in the Yukon! In my cabin, I came across the book 'The Call of the Wild' (wild or appeal) by Jack London. I devoured and I fall in love with the Yukon in the same occasion. Wonderful! It must be said that the guy was well documented and he has spent much of his time squatting in the saloons of Dawson booze and listen to stories old and less old while others were trying to find some nuggets to - 40 C Ben ... really!

(Dawson)

Curious to know more about this small city outside of time, I leading to the museum (which incidentally it is not bad at all). And here is what I could draw ...

The Klondike Gold Rush

Dawson's story is quite inspiring. Within a few months she went from a small town a few people that capital of the Yukon (status it retains until 1953), is the largest city west of Winnipeg and north of San Francisco (yes!). Everything starts with big gold nuggets found in the Klondike River in 1896, a few bored housewives, some sailors also gossips who roam between Alaska and California, a bit of journalists in Marseilles, and a big crisis of unemployment in the U.S. ... and partly to a mass of unemployed and vagabonds, dreamers or curious ... embark towards the north in search of happiness and wealth! But the North is not California, and Yukon in winter it is - 40 C. In July 1897, thousands of people arrive at the door Yukon, marcel with a heart filled with hope, not knowing what will await them. To go north, two solutions:
The first is to take the Chilkoot Pass departing from Dyea (holds are full of tourist organizations proposing to redo the crossing you in real life), with enough food to keep all winter (or 25kg on average), watch the police control everything with application. We laugh not with these things.

For the curious, here is a passage written by Michel Le Bris preface that the new edition of the 'Appeal the forest '. It summarizes the situation well:
" By fall the nightmare began: 62,000 unhappy tight on the beach Dyea battered by cold wind and ice ahead of them raw, swirling winds, the risk of avalanche and a final slope so steep that no animal could I pass it. An unbroken chain of these poor wretches, staggering under their packs, half frozen, starved, was formed early in the morning. No halt was permitted, under penalty of being ejected from the chain, everyone had just put his feet in that of his predecessor, until the test Final: 1500 Almost steep steps carved into the ice. The huskies themselves should be brought back to man ... but gave up 40 000 22 000 men manage to shift . Damn!

Or if you took in Skagway that was "another Gateway Gold Country Dyea after ... the easiest route, first believed the miners, who began as a walk horseback through the hills. He had quickly become disillusioned when they succeeded to precipices and rivers to cross. A Devil's Hill (whole program), the smallest gap could trigger an avalanche. A Porcupine Hill, the horses broke their legs on the unstable blocks. But that was nothing compared to Summit Hill, to White Pass: thousand feet of climbing on a steep slope turned into a river of mud. The horses, broken members, there were dying, trampled by the crowd to no more than a bloody mass, their bones for a stepping survivors ... "... the road was called the Dead Horse Trail ... charming!
short, after all that it took only a few days the city has 30,000 residents put out, who settled in shacks over the luckiest, 2 banks in good shape, 2 newspapers, 5 churches, a theater, 30 saloons, a telegraph, and all full of prostitutes, business considered at this time of public utility for all those single men which were quite bored anyway!

source: http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/

In 1898, the winter was one of the coldest ever recorded. This whole populace being thus cut down acres and acres of trees that served to warm the earth but also for surveys to heat or to build beautiful cabins. That is why around Dawson, old forests that no longer exists because everything has been razed to this period.

The euphoria was short lived because in August 1899 large nuggets were discovered in Nome in Alaska and caused a mass departure of people in Dawson and transformed the city into ghost town. So much for the historical anecdote ... ...

you leave on a positive note here is the recipe for zucchini cakes! Ha zucchini! You can even quadruple the recipe and freeze them in mass for aperitifs winter!

Croquettes of zucchini.
- four Grate zucchini.
- In a bowl whisk 2 eggs and flour (about 250ml or 1 cup English measure) and a little salt and nutmeg.
- Add the zucchini
- Cook in a pan by making small droppings.
- Serve with yogurt sauce or soy sauce.