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