エイダン.シダル wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 9:26 pm
Danylewich wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 7:21 pm
That's what I have, Borge and Falketind and I'm in Toronto, though I mostly ski in Quebec during vacations. Great combo, Borges does Gatineau Park in tracks and off-piste. Falketind is my light fun telemark ski that I mostly use on my local park hill in Toronto for yoyo-ing, though I've used it in Mont Tremblant park and Gaspesie also. Using Alpina Alaska for boots.
If you're short of skiing partners, I'm in south Etobicoke, ski lots at Kolapore...
I only Nordic skied at Tremblant once, in my McGill University days, long ago. How's the resort, or resorts near it, if I took my xcD set on the lifts? I'm there in March with my young kids, doing alpine. I could spend a day with them, doing xcD on the greens.
I know enough about Ontario I wouldn't bother here: uptight, litigation-paranoid society...
Great to meet you! Been to Kolapore a few times. Re: Quebec, here's a long set of suggestions:
I think they have really embraced alpine touring equipment and have created a lot of uphill trails, so they'd be open to xcD I think. Mont Tremblant would be okay with that on the lifts, but I find Tremblant super icy and frequently windy and clouded in and difficult for xcD skis. They have a telecabin and you could definitely take with that with your xcD skis. I think you'd probably want a safety strap though for the downhill, just in case you popped out of a binding. Alternately you could ski up on their AT tracks, really extremely pretty trail. Versant Nord I think somehow might be a better side to ski xcDownhill on, seems like the quieter side to me. I haven't been, but I believe there is also a uphill skiing only/no-lift hill near Tremblant that looks like a cool idea, membership only $79 for the year:
https://experiencemontalta.com/
And check this website for other AT friendly places that likely would be fine with xcD gear as long as you have a safety strap:
http://www.skimoeast.com/to-skin-up.html All the usual Quebec places would be great I think for xcD, Le Massif, Mont St. Anne, Mont Saint-Saveur, etc. By the way, the xc near Le Massif is also sublime.
I also haven't been there yet in winter, but SEPAQ Parque National du Jacques Cartier has an off-piste skiing area with glades somewhere back on the rive. FYI SEPAQ parks rock for cross-country - stay in their eco-cabins or tents, super-fun with kids too, did it for many years. Very affordable, very nice cabins in the provincials parks - extremely high quality facilities. I've stayed in cabins or camped at Tremblant, Orford, Jacques Cartier, Gaspesie, all amazing, all have great skiing of all kinds. Tremblant Parc, go to Secteur Pimbina, very nice backcountry trails there for xc. Haven't been in winter but Grand-Jardins looks like it could be good. Obviously Gaspesie is amazing, but a long way off . . . nonetheless, all of Quebec very very good.
Finally, don't forget Gatineau's, just outside Ottawa, fantastic cross-country and backcountry trails. Not so good for for xcD, not enough openness, but I frequently just go on Camp Fortune's two closed hills, Alexander and McDonald, lift seems to have been closed last few years, so I just noodle around on there, it's like my own private xcD hill.
In Toronto, I do xcD in Riverdale Park East and West, just fool around on the hills, yo-yoing. I hear there is telemark happening at Earl Bales Park, the City of Toronto ski hill. There is a Toronto telemark teaching outfit, I hear they are good too:
https://skitelemark.ca/ and they teach at Earl Bales, so likely you could do xcD there too.
Good luck with plans, let's meet up for a ski at Kolapore come January!