Daily Archives: Saturday, 10 December, 2005

When we came back to the service building after our hike there was a young fox on the parking lot. He was totally not afraid of people and came very close to me. Too close for comfort since foxes can carry rabies. It’s such a beautiful animal, I’m glad my last name is derived from the most famous, Reynaert the fox. Apparently this story was so popular in mediaeval France that they named the animal after the main character of this story, Renard.

I went with the McGill Outdoors Club for a hike in the national park (although it is of course just a provincial park) Mont Tremblant. We were very late because we had to wait for our trip leader. He never showed up (later we heard he had totally slept through his alarm clock and the doorbell when two of us went to his house) so we went, more than an hour late, by ourselves.

There was just enough snow to make it pretty, and fortunately not enough to make us sink deep into the snow.