| So I am sitting here at the Club Vacances Magog | | | | altitude of 986 meters and a vertical drop of |
| with the wind howling outside at 45+ km per hour | | | | 1770 feet. It was quite a nice mountain to ski on, |
| and temperatures of about -15 to -20 degrees | | | | but the top was covered in fog the whole day |
| Celsius, windchill factor not included. | | | | and it was very windy. We had to retreat |
| We drove up from Toronto last Saturday and it | | | | mid-afternoonish because it got too cold. |
| only took us about 6 hours to get to the town of | | | | Yesterday we went skiing at Owl's Head, towards |
| Magog in Quebec's Eastern Townships. This area, | | | | the southern end of Lake Mephremagog. It also |
| l'Estrie, is located about 1 hour southeast of | | | | has a vertical of 1770 feet. Actually we enjoyed |
| Montreal and very close to the Quebec - | | | | Owl's Head better than Orford and on Tuesdays |
| Vermont border. There are several fairly large | | | | and Wednesdays they offer incredible deals: $15 |
| lakes in the area: Lake Memphremagog being the | | | | (Canadian!) for a whole day of skiing, apparently |
| largest, there is Lake Magog and there is also | | | | the best value for skiing in Eastern North America. |
| Lake Massawippi. | | | | No skiing today though. It is simply too darn cold. |
| We had a pretty nice dinner Saturday night at a | | | | The wind is howling and snow occasionally blows |
| local restaurant in Magog called Jacko's. Sunday | | | | horizontally across the landscape. I had romantic |
| we took a nice drive around to places like North | | | | notions of driving into Montreal today, but the cold |
| Hatley (a picturesque pioneer village), Lennoxville | | | | weather would have ruined such an outing. |
| and we took a quick drive through the major city | | | | So we hope to catch a bit more skiing and |
| of the area, Sherbrooke. | | | | maybe some sightseeing in the next 3 days. |
| Monday we went skiing at Mount Orford which is | | | | Winter arrived late here in the Eastern Townships |
| just outside the town of Magog. It is the largest | | | | of Quebec this year, but it arrived with a |
| one of the ski mountains in the area with an | | | | vengeance. |