The Quebec Blog

An Earthquake centered in southern Quebec was felt across the North Country this afternoon. The tremor took place around 1:45pm and was reported by various sources to be between 5.0 and 5.7 in magnitude. It was measured at 5.0 by the US Geologic Survey.

Various news reports detailed minor shaking and minimal damage across the Adirondacks in New York State. According to the Associated Press reports of shaking came from Buffalo to Albany to Massena, along the Saint Lawrence River. CBC reported more significant damage in Bowman, Quebec, near the epicenter.

After apres-ski beers in the sun at the bottom of Mont Edouard yesterday, a cold front moved in and the bottom promptly dropped out. When I got up this morning, it was a brisk -15F.

On our way back to the Quebec City airport, we pulled into Le Massif for some photo ops, and weren’t disappointed. The high temp was only 3F, so a few trails were bullet-proof, but many were top-to-bottom (2,400 verts) soft as could be.

Another cool thing about Le Massif is the trail-name theme — most are old French sea-faring terms.

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Just when we thought that this trip couldn’t get better, the skies cleared for a real off-the-beaten-track gem in the Saguenay Fjord region: Mont Edouard.

It has a nice, sustained pitch, lots of glades, and the best snow of the week. Paydirt.

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