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DTK – Check Your Pins 2.2 Heading North
[vimeo:wcs4p01r]http://www.vimeo.com/40545188[/vimeo:wcs4p01r]Unless we get a late season dump, the storm of February 25th will be remembered as the best of a lackluster season in New England. A few days after maximizing the snow in Vermont we headed north to the Chic Chocs on the Gaspe peninsula of Quebec, Canada. We left early to complete the double-digit windshield hours and follow the shores of the St. Lawrence to the northeast. A night in a cheap motel and a few Tim Hortons stops later we sorted our gear and set off to explore some terrain and ride with Vertigo Adventures, a guiding operation suppossedly light on frills but heavy on vert and powder at the northern end of the Appalachian range.
After some sketchy snow squalls during another few hours of driving we got our first glimpse of the mountains; impressive 4000′ ers with true alpine terrain stretched away into the distance. We had a schedule to keep and a week of earning it ahead of us, and so chose a mellow spot a short distance from the road with an easily lappable skinner.
Though tracked in the main lanes, we found plenty of turns at the periphery and where the trees were “too tight”. When it was time to head out and meet our guide we mobbed a twisty tree run back to the drainage and parking lot. The truck was loaded back up and we headed to a town well off the beaten path where we met Francois and Bruno from Vertigo. After completing the paperwork formalities we followed them to the trailhead where the week’s food and gear were loaded into sleds towed behind snowmobiles.
More word and photos here http://checkyourpins.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/chic-chocs-days-one-and-two/
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