Northern Ont. friends prepare for 450-km ski and snowshoe trek
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Jean-Philippe Marineau and Patrice Beauparlant, lifelong friends who grew up in Hearst, Ont., are training for a 450-km trek from Fort Albany to Hearst, Ont.
Jean-Philippe Marineau and Patrice Beauparlant are lifelong friends who grew up in Hearst, Ont.
As children, they attended Camp Source de Vie, a summer camp in their hometown that Marineau’s father helped establish in the 1980s.
This weekend, the two are training in Timmins for a 30-day, 450-kilometre expedition. The trek, which begins next month, is in honour of Marineau’s father, who passed away in 2017.
Marineau said the camp was built in 1985, funded in part by an idea from one of his dad's friends.
"One guy said, 'We're going to walk all the way to James Bay if we have to, to raise some money,'" he said.
"So then that's what he did. They put a team of three together, and they were trained by the Army back then for two weeks. And then they were off."
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