PREVIOUS TRIPS GROS MORNE, NORTH RIM TRAVERSE, ANCIENT CRUST
Gros Morne
AMC Adventure Travel sponsored trip to backpack the North Rim Traverse in Gros Morne NP, Newfoundland, Canada. AMC AT leaders Bob Knudsen and Elizabeth Ryan guided the group on four days of backpacking and five additional days of day hikes, and visits to cultural attractions.
Trip Description
Trip to western Newfoundland and Gros Morne NP included backpacking, day hiking, and visits to UNESCO world heritage natural and cultural sites. We arrived in Deer Lake the first day and purchased food for our camp meals and backpack. Sunday we drove to the park for a short pre-backpack briefing with the rangers, picked up our permits and ferry tickets, and spent the remainder of the day hiking in the Tablelands. The Tablelands is an UNESCO world heritage site featuring a beautiful landscape with 500 million year old crust. We camped overnight in the park. On Monday we were ferried across the scenic Western Brook Pond to the start of our four day backpack. Western Brook Pond is a Fjord with thousand foot cliffs surrounding it on three sides and spectacular views. We were dropped at the head of the pond to start our four day backpack (the North Rim Traverse) across the trailless tundra and tuckamore. Thursday took us to Port au Choix to see 5000 years of human settlement on display at the museum and on to L’Anse aux Meadows at the north tip of Newfoundland to camp overnight. On Friday we visited the L’Anse aux Meadows site to see the only authenticated Viking settlement in North America. We returned to Gros Morne NP late in the day to camp. Saturday we day hiked Gros Morne Mountain and other areas in the park. Saturday night we had our last group dinner. Sunday morning we packed up, departed the park by noon and returned home.