Well another great day at another interesting mountain in the Eastern Townships. Mount Orford. Seemed to be less snow than at Sutton and most of the “legendary” wood trails were closed. Sunny. A rare dark goggle lens day. Worn all day because otherwise it’s too bright and I’ll get sick.
The consensus was that Orford would have better coverage on their groomers than Sutton. Some of which are impressive for pitch and also some really nice green terrain that’s consistent in pitch and with excellent grooming.
Like the other township areas, there are a lot of good skiers and in this Monday they were carving centric. There’s also a lot of people skinning. The mountain is only 15 minutes from Magog which is amazing. (Population about 28,000)
Morning frost on the windshield at 12 degrees.
From inside. Representing the distribution of skitalkers at the resort.
Mountain from the Rue Principale, the street the Sat night dinner was on, just further out.
@Tony S upside down at the start of his skating clinic he fell over.
An unusual feature is this chime up on one of the green trails.
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The views are pretty spectacular from this mountain. I actually didn’t get shots from the top. You can see quite a lot but no one has the patience to figure out what.
@mdf adding some color to the landscape. Looking at the top of Mont Giroux, which is left side of the map. It looks tiny, but that trail to the left top is the signature Magnum trail. A steep groomer at the top that reminds me of the wide groomer on Andesite at Big Sky. I think this is steeper, but not as wide at the top.
Lots of carving going on there. But beware below when stopping, as some come off at near terminal velocity.
@Tony S with
@aveski with the Piste Fermée sign. Seemed to be a suggestion as there was no rope.
The Piste Fermée from below
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@ScottB and I went down it. Coverage was pretty good and the rock avoidance was beginner to low intermediate level.
From the next trail another view of Mont Giroux and the Magnum trail.
@ScottB on one of the light blue trails off the Mont Alfred-Desrochers lift. There’s a kids woods experience trail to the right.
@zircon on a mini mogul section of that same trail
Tony with the last tree before the vast spaces of Southern Quebec and Northern VT
New friend.
Tony headed down the highly questionable short steep mogul section. Turned out to be pretty good.
Further down. First tester of the questionable,
@mdf , waits at the bottom.
Driving back in the gloaming.
Thanks to
@KevinF for herding the cats north to Quebec. Two great NEGs in a row, and we’re up for a Provincial Medal for bringing the snow.
Glad we did the townships. I highly recommend checking them out. And for those who didn’t get to Mount Orford, definitely go if you go back to the Townships. Well worth it. Note the Monday ticket was $68 Canadian online with all the taxes and fees.
