Explore the Hudson Coast, cross country skiing

Your flight from Montreal will be connecting through Kuujjuarapik then Umiujaq. On your arrival in Umiujaq in the early afternoon, you will be met by a park staff member and shuttled to your hotel to check in. You will then be welcomed at the visitor pavilion for tea and an introduction to the ins and outs of daily life in a northern community. Next, a guided tour of the community with historical overview is provided. Returning to the visitor pavilion, you will take part in a discovery and training activity on winter expeditions and camping. This will be followed by dinner.

• Meals: Breakfast in flight / snack served on arrival and supper at the park visitor centre (bannock, prepared meat or fish).
• Accommodations: Cooperative hotel of Umiujaq.

La journée débutera par une expédition en bateau d'environ une heure qui vous fera longer la baie d'Hudson. Vous partirez à la découverte de la majestueuse chute Nastapoka. Ce site, connu des Inuit depuis des générations, est un lieu privilégié pour l’observation de mammifères marins et terrestres. Pour vous y rendre, vous voguerez entre les paysages des îles Gillies et les imposantes cuestas hudsoniennes longeant la côte. Une fois à l’embouchure de la rivière Nastapoka, feu de camp et courte randonnée vers la chute seront au programme. Vous reviendrez pour le souper à Umiujuaq où vous passerez la nuit.

• Hébergement : Coop Hôtel d'Umiujaq

The day starts with the preparation of all the equipment required for the expedition and loading of the qamutics and pulkas. After lunch, departure for your back-country skiing adventure in the park, following the Umiujaq River for 15 km to its source. On arrival at camp, your guides will invite you to accompany them in some ptarmigan hunting, the meal planned for that evening. Accommodations are a wood-heated winter shelter (yu​rt-type) at the foot of the mountains.​

• Meals: Continental-type breakfast at the cooperative hotel (tea or coffee, croissants or toast, fruit, cereal, porridge or granolas) / lunch at the park visitor centre (chicken or tuna pasta salad, raw vegetables and dip) / supper in the communal igloo (prepared meat or fish, vegetables en papillote, bannock).
• Accommodations: Winter shelter design (yurt type)

Departure in the morning for the second campsite near Lac Misinamapi. Following an intermediate ascent, the 20 km trail continues across a vast undulating plateau with scattered frozen lakes. Your guides will teach you how to set up a traditional Inuit winter camp. Your accommodations for the next two nights will be in a tupi​k (heated traditional inuit tent) next to the lake.

• Meals: Continental-type breakfast at the park visitor centre (tea or coffee, croissants or toast, fruit, cereal, porridge or granolas) / lunch (sandwiches or wraps, salads, raw vegetables and dip) / supper at the cooperative hotel (bannock and swiss fondue, meat and vegetables en papillote).
• Accommodations: Traditional heated inuit tent (tupik)

Day 4 will begin in the morning with final preparations at the park visitor centre and followed by departure on your genuine winter expedition: five days and four nights at Lake Tasiujaq. In the park, you will learn to pitch a traditional Inuit tupik (tent) and have an opportunity to climb the nearby cuesta (by ski or snowshoe). This day and the next will include visits to several sites of interest next to the lake as well as inland, and two nights accommodations in a heated traditional Inuit tent. Longer distances will be travelled by snowmobile and qamutik; on-site activities will include backcountry skiing and snowshoeing. A numb​er of traditional activities will be proposed throughout your adventure by your Inuit and Cree guides.

• Meals: Continental-type breakfast at the park visitor centre (tea or coffee, croissants or toast, fruit, cereal, porridge or granolas) / lunch (sandwiches or wraps, salads, raw vegetables and dip) / supper at the cooperative hotel (bannock and swiss fondue, meat and vegetables en papillote).
• Accommodations: Traditional heated inuit tupik.

After dismantling the camp in the morning, departure for the third campsite next to Lac Tasiujaq at the mouth of the Rivière Sukkuq. The route covers 22 km across the plateau to Lac Persillon, followed by a gentle descent to Lac Tasiujaq. Accommodations for the night in a winter shelter (yurt-type) at the mouth of the Rivière Sukkuq.​​

• Meals: Continental-type breakfast at the park visitor centre (tea or coffee, croissants or toast, fruit, cereal, porridge or granolas) / lunch (sandwiches or wraps, salads, raw vegetables and dip) / supper at the cooperative hotel (bannock and swiss fondue, meat and vegetables en papillote).
• Accommodations: Winter shelter design