Adventurion

Orford Township.

Orford Township is located on the highway 10 between Montreal and Sherbrook, in Memphremagog area of Eastern Townships. This area is an exceptional nature playground thanks to Mont-Orford National Park, which was created in 1933. In winter Mont-Orford ski resort attracts skiers and snow-shoe hikers. In summer people could enjoy the hikes of different difficulties in this protected area. The core of the area is a tiny village called Cherry River, which could be a good location for accommodation.

Mont-Orford ski resort.

Mont Orford is 850 meters tall mountain with stunning panoramic views. If you like glades and skiing in nature, it’s definitely the place for you. From all the mountains I’ve skied so far, for my opinion, it’s the best place to ski. It has 44 trails, 17 glades and 7 lifts (including the one with gondola).

The gondola lift brings you to the top of mount Orford and the starting point of the 4 km long green trail – perfect for new skiers. The trail has amazing views on Lake Memphremagog and the Appalachian Mountains.

The best time to ski is after the heavy snow. This time you especially appreciate the beauty of winter nature.

Skiing on Mont-Orford.

It is usually cheaper if you buy ski lift tickets for the multiple days. Fortunately you can find good deals, even daily tickets on www.liftopia.com. This site saved and continue saving us a lot of money.

We’ve been pleased with a lot of snow that week and skiing on the mount like Orford was a real pleasure.

Our friends enjoyed beautiful glades. Their favorite was “Porc-épic” slope, which we initially translated as “Epic pork” 🙂 but its real translation is “Porcupine“.

Our family mostly spent time on the green slopes. Maxim started skiing by himself on the real long green trails. I’m very proud of him. I couldn’t even imagine such progress in one season. Next year we plan to send him to one of many ski schools we have in Quebec. I was happy that Dana could ski as well even, as we found later, with the broken arm … I didn’t ski too much by myself and I see a bit of regression in my skiing skills. Instead of continuing trying to move to the next level by myself I decided to take a lesson or two the next season from a professional coach.

Saint Valentines Day.

This week we had a celebration – Saint Valentines Day and … our wedding anniversary.

Roma bought flowers on behalf of the menfolk and we made a BBQ in the oven. Yes, in the oven, because the real BBQ didn’t have a gas adapter, so we didn’t have other options. Maybe we could make it in the fireplace 🙂 but smoke alarm system in the rented house was so sensitive that it was very common for us to calm it down by blowing the air near the sensors.

Day off.

Yes, we decided to rest one day from skiing 🙂 . It was Wednesday, the day after the the Valentines Day. We stayed in the hot tub till 4 AM 🙂 . It was a real pleasure to enjoy a hot tub in a snowy and very cold nights.

This day initially we were thinking about hiking, but .. the only real hiker among us was Maxim 🙂 . We found 4 pairs of snowshoes and he tried them.