Into Northern Quebec: Where the Road Ends
Adventure Rider Radio
Canoe West Media
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Chris Smith had long made a tradition of planning annual motorcycle adventures with friends and family. The year before, their trip was cut short when several people dropped out due to various challenges. This time, with a smaller group, they pushed farther—riding through active wildfires on their way to the end of Quebec’s remote Trans-Taiga Road. After a night camping at the Caniapiscau Reservoir, they began the ride back toward Radisson as the smoke thickened and the sky darkened. Pressing on, they discovered the road south had been closed due to the fires. Stranded for a couple of days, they made the most of it—sharing meals, swapping stories, and strengthening the bonds that make these adventures unforgettable. This wasn’t just another ride. It was a reminder of why they go: for the adventure, the challenge, and the connection.
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| 0:00.0 | Chris Smith comes from a big family. Well, I think it's a huge family. He had lots of cousins, |
| 0:06.3 | lots of brothers and sisters, and they did all kinds of crazy things growing up, all kinds of |
| 0:09.6 | adventures, and just had a great time. Then he left home fairly young to work with the RCMP. |
| 0:15.4 | That's the police in Canada. And he loved working with the RCMP. It was great. It was another |
| 0:19.8 | type of adventure adventure and he was |
| 0:20.9 | really enjoying it. But one day he got to talking with his cousin and they started reminiscing about |
| 0:25.8 | all the things that they used to do and those good old days and all those fun rides that they |
| 0:29.8 | would do with family and friends. And he realized just how long it had been since he'd actually |
| 0:34.3 | been out and done an adventure with his family and friends. They decided |
| 0:38.7 | right then and there, they had to do an adventure. They got to do something together. So they ended up |
| 0:42.4 | coming up with an idea to explore the remote roads of Northern Quebec by motorcycle. Because |
| 0:47.9 | some of the roads in Northern Quebec are just very long dirt roads with literally nothing |
| 0:53.2 | around them, nothing but wilderness. So really incredible, |
| 0:56.5 | but really remote. Anyway, he put the word out to his family and friends and pretty soon, |
| 1:00.5 | very quickly, he had a group to go on that first adventure. I guess no one really knew what to |
| 1:05.2 | expect with this, but it was an eclectic group of riders and bikes. They didn't reach their goal, |
| 1:10.2 | not all of them. Some of them went home |
| 1:11.9 | with broken bikes. Some bikes were shipped home. Some went home with broken bones, sprained egos. |
| 1:18.7 | So when Chris suggested that they should do this again next year, not everybody was that gung-ho |
| 1:23.7 | about going. But he did manage to get another group together for the next year and |
| 1:27.7 | attempt another ride into Northern Quebec. Again, it wasn't perfect. I mean, it didn't go off as |
| 1:33.0 | planned. They ended up stranded for days. They made the most of it. Sharing meals, collecting |
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