March 2025 - Mont Tremblant, Quebec

As reported in the GG Notes, several of us MSDr's were up at Mont Tremblant in Quebec last month.  It was the same gang of eight that we've been doing ski trips with over the last few years: John and me, Jerry and Laura, Diane and Brian, and John's brother Jay and his wife Andrea.

Mont Tremblant is about 80 miles north of Montreal, in the Laurentian Mountains, about a 240 mile trip for us in Vermont.  Since it's a considerably longer drive for the others in the group who live in points south, they all stayed at our house the night before our journey.  We woke up the next morning to 8-10" of new snow - first order of business before our departure was to dig everyone out.

Men at work: John, Brian, Jerry, Jay

That done, the drive up went smoothly, and even the border crossing into Canada went off without a hitch.  

As high as the snowbanks were around our house, they were even higher in Quebec.  We never got to use the deck or the fire pit at our rental, for obvious reasons:

That's a picnic table under there; the grill was similarly covered

A picture taken in the same spot  in the town of St. Jovite last year vs. this year illustrates the winter they've been enjoying:

Early March, 2024....

.......vs. mid-February, 2025

The skiing was great, as were the snowshoeing trails around our rental...

Chris & Diane

 

John and I took a day off from skiing to check out a settlement named "Lussier" about 40 miles away.   We followed the GPS in hopes of finding a village center or at least a road sign....

.....but this is all we found: 

Lussier, Quebec

A successful week In any event: great camaraderie, no injuries, and a warm reception from all Canadians   We're already making plans for next year.