 Chrome Point, Lewis Hills JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH!"Hiking in the Lewis Hills of Newfoundland" by Clarence A. PelleyTotal distance 55 kilometres |
Three hundred and sixty million years ago a catastrophic collision occurred on the west coast of Newfoundland! A west-moving section of the earth's crust met with the continent of North America. On its front edge it carried a mass of heavy rock that had its origin one thousand kilometres to the east and more than five kilometres deep inside the earth's crust. That mass of peridotite was deposited, and after millions of years of snow, rain, frost and the inexorable grindings of ice age glaciers, became the Lewis Hills as we know them today.
A large proportion of the Lewis Hills is composed of peridotite, a rusty brown rock containing iron, magnesium, chromium and nickel in such concentrations that the sparse soil is almost toxic to plant life. There are, however, several species that cling to life in this hostile environment. Alpine campion, sandworts, maidenhair fern, sea thrift, moss campion, and lapland rosebay are but a few. |
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| An expedition into the Lewis Hills will take you from sea level to over eight hundred metres. In the course of this fifty-five kilometre hike, you will walk the bottom of glacier-carved canyons, through virgin boreal forests, over subarctic mountain tops and camp out under the big dipper. You will follow trails known only to moose and caribou. You may have to cross rivers up to your armpits in chilly water! And from the top of Cabox, Newfoundland Island's highest geographic elevation, you can see from Mount St. Gregory to Cape Anguille, a three hundred and sixty degree view with a one hundred kilometre radius.! The Lewis Hills expedition is among the best of its kind in eastern North America, and a unique wilderness experience. |
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You can purchase a detailed description of the 55 km trail from Blow-Me-Down Brook, over the Blow-Me-Down Mountains and Lewis Hills, to Point au Mal.
Please note that the BLOW-ME-DOWN MOUNTAINS TRAIL GUIDE is a part of the BLOW-ME-DOWN/LEWIS HILLS TRAVERSE. It can be e-mailed to you in Adobe PDF format, or mailed to you as a printed hardcopy. Indicate your preference in the "Other notes or instructions" of the final checkout area. It may include such helpful features as:
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