Gay Travel: Mont Tremblant, Quebec
scott, February 8th, 2012 The snow started slowly, almost hesitant, as if uncertain about its form. For ten minutes or twenty, it looked as if we would get icy rain – and then, miraculously, the snow commenced: big fluffy fat flakes that clustered on our lashes and clung to our scarves and gloves. Unbeknownst to those of us already atop the summit of Mont Tremblant in Quebec, the entire region was about to be slammed with the year’s first major snowstorm – but all we knew was that the snow was now falling fast all over the mountain.
For those of us who live for winter and snow, few natural sights are more numinous than the sky opening up and shaking down buckets of white confetti. As Dylan Thomas wrote so eloquently of snow in his masterwork “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” “Our snow was not only shaken from white wash buckets down the sky, it came shawling out of the ground and swam and drifted out of the arms and hands and bodies of the trees; snow grew overnight on the roofs of the houses like a pure and grandfather moss, minutely-ivied the walls and settled…”
And that’s how it was atop Mont Tremblant, the highest peak in the Quebec Laurentians. Originally called the “mountain of the great Manitou” (or Great Spirit) by the Algonquin, Mont Tremblant is, as the civic boosters declare, “a mountain of possibilities.”
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One Reader Comment
My hearing isnt so great sometimes and I thought this place was Mt “tres blanc” until I actually skied there