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Mount Van Hovenberg


I have very clear memories of the Olympic Games in Lake Placid in 1980. The victory of the American hockey team against the then USSR against Finland in the final. The five gold medals American speed skater Eric Heiden. The silver medal of Gaétan Boucher in the same discipline.

For cons, I have no memory of skiing competition held on the trails of Mount Van Hovenberg I traveled today ... to realize that they were truly "Olympic".

There is a skier English that often leaves comments on my blog which tracks hate that look like they are so broad boulevards. I do not want him to go skiing at Mount Van Hovenberg because all the paths of the former site of Olympic competition are in this genre.

Forget the word "trail" that simply does not apply. Rather, it is real roads where you can play classic and skate skiing. For shopping, fine. But as a skier Sunday, I must confess that I often feel like the scooter on the highway while skiing there.

This does not mean that the tracks are completely devoid of interest. For example, I rode the loop of the "five kilometers feminine" makes us zizaguer flank of Mount Van Hovenberg. What five kilometers, my friends! I do not remember working so hard over such a short distance. You really feel it's a golf tournament designed to allow the stronger to win.

course, there are some easy trails marked on the flat near the chalet host. But when one moves through the forest, all trails are in the same genre: a roller coaster where one is always now bind short descents and climbs that always seem longer. Given the width of the tracks, descents are hardly exciting. So we do not feel so rewarded for our efforts.

The cottage home center is a simple wooden building that has absolutely nothing to Olympic. But the place is warm and breathes skiing. Before, there is the stadium is a large open space where we draw several tracks coast and used for departures and arrivals competitions - but I also found the perfect to introduce a child to ski. Here making his son Arthur second career outing.


A tip in closing: if you go, bring your lunch. The canteen is on site that serves primarily the junk food and everything is very expensive.

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Lake Placid Club

I read somewhere that the trails of Lake Placid Club have welcomed the cross-country skiing competitions for the 1932 Olympics. That may be why I felt back to that time by browsing.

The Lake Placid Club, the Golf Club Hotel Crown Plaza where I spend the weekend. Arrived about noon at Lake Placid, I decided to go skiing at this place because I had access to trails for free. And I must say that I got for my money ...

I have not made an unpleasant exit because I have skied in the beautiful snow. But the trail "left me hungry - especially because I spent my trip to tell me that there was much better to ski in the corner.

club's network extends over a dozen kilometers. During the first mile, you can ski on the ground golf and so much the better. It's the only time you have the chance to admire the mountains surrounding Lake Placid. We see in particular the ski jumps built for the 1980 Olympics.

Then we enter a thick forest of conifers and the land becomes slightly undulating. Long downhill slope, abrupt breaks ground fun to negotiate, nice gradual climb ... we are dealing with an excellent ground for cross-country skiing. And yet, the magic has not operated for a very simple reason: the state trails. Or rather their style.
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loop near the cottage home, had been groomed trails without one trace of furrows. In fact, I felt more skiing on backcountry trails on the real cross-country ski trails maintained. When I said that I felt to be back in 1932 ...

short, do not tell the story: I had to ski elsewhere. But I should be able to resume tomorrow ...

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Park Île-de-la-Visitation

Of all the nature parks in Montreal, that of Ile-de-la-Visitation is by far the fewest to offer skiers. The park is simply too small to have a trail system worthy of the name.

I knew all this before I make today. And I also knew that after the rain we had a few days ago, the conditions are, at best, atrocious. But I went anyway because I promised myself a long time to return to take some pictures and make a text worthy of the name.

The park offers three trails totaling about eight miles. The most interesting is that which brings us to the island of the Visitation where you can admire the Prairie River. And we go près de cette belle croix de bois qui a sûrement une histoire – même si je n’ai pas vu de panneau d’interprétation à proximité.


Il y a aussi un curieux sentier qui longe la rive de l’île de Montréal sur une bande de terre si étroite qu’on a l’impression de skier sur la rue ou dans la cour des résidents riverains. On peut aussi y admirer le barrage qu’il y a sur la rivière des Prairies.

C’est à peu près tout ce que j’ai de positif à dire sur les pistes du parc. En plus d’être courts et plats, celles-ci ont un autre défaut: ils longent des sentiers de marche – then you can ski in the middle of the marchers, that what have always hated.

The chalet park is a beautiful small building in which there are many tables, but no food service. And as a waxing room, there a. .. a ski rack installed outside!

By cons, there is a small bistro in the basement of the miller's house where I stayed for a pleasant sipping coffee. By far the best moment of my trip.

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Center cross-country ski trails in the Esterel

Because I like discovering new places to ski, ski resorts where I will at least once a winter count on the fingers of one hand. There are trails Île Perrot, because it is my home. There Rigaud Mountain, which is not far and I really like. There is the Mountain Cut where we always do our best to provide good skiing conditions. Far Hills ago, my favorite place in the Laurentians. And there is the ski resort of L'Esterel background where I went today for the third time in three winters.

There is a reason for this: since it was taken over by the team out of bounds and they are maintained as the world, The Esterel trails have become a great destination for those days when conditions are precarious.

is a maintenance issue, but also configuration. Since they all have a corridor to the skate, those tracks are relatively large - then we have room for maneuvering on descents. And besides, the terrain in that corner of the Laurentians is rather modest. There are hills, of course, may nothing really serious.

Result: I had a nice ride today with a day where I would not want to face the narrow paths Morin-Heights park where the Val-David Val-Morin was closed due to harsh conditions.

There are some novelties in L'Esterel this winter. The trailer that serves as a chalet host is no longer in the middle of the network but at the entrance. The alignment of two tracks very difficult ordered has been changed. And now there is a small relay in the forest.

center skiing L'Esterel is not perfect. It lacks a cottage home worthy of its name and a few kilometers of tracks because even a second-class skier like me feels a bit cramped. And side landscape and spectacular views, not Peru. But I'm still happy because it is very well received and because I like this corner of the Laurentians today a little apart and yet very rich in history.

Going to L'Esterel, we pass the location of the Chalet Cochand, one of the first ski resort in the Laurentians. We still see the pistes cut into the hill behind the Lake Lucerne. We skied at this location since 1915.

At Sainte-Marguerite, you can admire the modern buildings drug the Belgian Baron Louis Empain had built when he founded the field of Esterel in the 30s. Even now, the "mall" that now houses the town hall of Sainte-Marguerite and the Hotel de la Pointe Blue, which was converted into the shelter were like two UFOs in the future Laurentian landed in the forest. So imagine the time ...

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Peninsula

I made a trip back in time today. First, because I went skiing for the Peninsula Trails Le Gardeur, a place I had not visited since 2004. And also because the center of skiing seems frozen in time.

Especially the cottage home that gives this impression. It is a relic that has certainly not changed for a very long time.

the better because the place is pretty nice and warm. There is a cafeteria and several tables flanked by good old benches. It feels to land in a restaurant rather than in a outdoor center.

The center has another feature: it is one of the few places in Quebec where you can ski with your dog. Two tracks named "Snoopy" are accessible to man's best friend. Today, I have only seen one who was walking with his owner - probably because it was Tuesday. That

ski with or without a dog, do not expect to experience strong emotions. Apart from a small bump in the middle of the network and some very gentle slopes, we ski on flat terrain. Fortunately, the tracks are well maintained, winding and drawn just enough in a beautiful wooded area. You never get bored even if there is not much to see on the trails.

As the paths are plotted in the same piece of forest, very close to each other, they resemble a lot. But they are rather short and it's nice to chain loops through the forest, returning each time at the front office.

I enjoyed my afternoon of ski trails to The Peninsula. It certainly does not do spectacular skiing. But to make a walk in the woods tranquuille is a good choice.

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The Auberge des Gallant Courvalloise

The Courvalloise is a small outdoor center where you can make skiing, snowshoeing and sledding on inner tube located some kilometers northeast of Drummondville, along the St. Francis River.

trails criss-cross country skiing Forest Drummond and are largely drawn on bike paths and roads passable very broad and very flat.

is good news for fans of skate: you can practice this technique on most of the network. It was at this clientele that I particularly recommend the place.

But I'm the classic and I must say that I am a bit bored in the wider trails which have very long straights who have undermined morale. See also ahead me, it depresses me.

If you're like me, prefer paths 3, 4 and 5. They are less straight and more intimate. A section of footpath 3 is a narrow track reserved for the classical style that I really regretted not having taken while I was typing long lines right of the path 2.

Runway My favorite is the 5. It runs along the St. Francis River that has a chance to admire. And then this path is more tortuous and slightly less flat than the others.

Side home is about average. There is a chalet host serves as an outdoor rink. They sell soup and stuff to munch. There is also a small trailer that serves as waxing room. And there's this small relay in the middle of the trail network.

I have a nice walk on the paths of Courvalloise in excellent conditions, but say it's not the kind of place I'm burning with desire to revisit. The trails are a bit too spicy for my taste. "Functional" is probably the word that best describes them. As Rodger Brulotte say they "do the work" ... but without much panache.

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Since it is connected to the network of trails Getaway Mont Rigaud, the Auberge des Gallant has become a destination country skiing interesting. Accommodations offering ski in the door does not abound and it is part of the lot.

I never slept at the hostel because it's not far from home. But I've eaten at his restaurant is very good. Say a little for a couple of weekends and skiing, not too far from Montreal, it's worth it.

Me that I often leave the hostel for hiking on Mount Rigaud. I leave my car in the parking lot of the sugar shack to the hostel. From there, a short trail leads to an unmaintained trail that the Escape has a funny name: the Flight of Castor.

I love this trail of 4.3 miles that climbs Mount Rigaud. It rises from the outset when we skied straight under a power line strike just the landscape. Then follows a steep and winding descent I am always proud of going down without falling.

Today, I fell at the first corner by hooking a ski in an asperity. I lost my hat and I found myself head buried in the snow. With the temperature around -15, I would have preferred to leave.

Then, the trail plunges into a forest and becomes more sinuous. Especially it bypasses the huge beaver pond in the middle of which there are nests of herons perched in dead trees.

Not long after, we arrive at the main loop of the Escape and can pursue its course in several ways. The fittest can "close the loop 'before heading back to the hostel for a total distance of about 22 km.

Today, I simply push up the picturesque Candy Mountain where I stayed for a very enjoyable. I found myself face to face with the owner of the establishment that served me coffee and pancakes cooked on a wood stove. It was the first time I stopped there, but it is certainly not the last.

's go back to the hostel to the Gallant Candy Mountain provides a path to a dozen miles. We can also do it in reverse and stop in hostel where you can have coffee in the lobby.

There is great amount of deer on Mount Rigaud and today I caught two that were being trampled a bit of trail.

Speaking of this: the interview is the very low slopes of the Escapade. Snowstorm or not, the equipment maintenance passes only once a week and done a pretty ordinary. For great tips, it's very beautiful. But there are also quite bumpy sections or potholed or badly drawn. As it's free, it's hard to complain. But saying do not get there expecting quality service comparable to that found in a "real" ski center charges.

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The project "Occitan" Cussac and other reflections

Here's an interesting article that illustrates everything wrong in the communication Occitan

"The project Occitan Cussac"

• A weak arguments and unnecessary
  

- Not a single referring to the word "Gascon", "Medoquine" or even "patois". This is how the Occitan Cussac (Gironde)? Who speaks it there? Do we even focus in this part of the Medoc?

- Occitan is placed on the same level as English and immigrant languages (actually below), always in the context of openness to the world. Nth iteration namby-pamby talk of going to our good feelings. Occitan, a language among many of the contemporary diversity. So why this one rather than another?

- Occitan is touted as a sort of updated software for children, inexpensive add-on: it means the class as a bilingual kindergarten class European allowing an awakening of the child. We will make geniuses of bilingual students. You know a lot of Polytechnique or ENA graduates passed through bilingual classes? They hide their game well

- A must on the love of the Republic, the two ex machina French. While France value is Republican. Love is the Republic. One can not escape the Republic. Especially, do not divide: as such, admire the skill is to learn the language of the country without speaking the local anchor, small patriotism. Of hypocrites.

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It is likely that no teacher is fluent in its Médoquine Gascon. We will therefore send a youngish béarnaise, who teaches a simulated Bearn, as we send in Agen Guyenne, Languedoc, such as squatting or Muret. Cheers Occitania ...

• Teaching Guyenne Agen in Gascony: a heresy

Let our young instit parachuted in Miramont-de-Guyenne, in guyennaise area of Lot-et-Garonne (ie non-Gascony). Is it interesting that a spell to go off in the missionary Aquitaine - when his status instit could procure him a position in the PA - to satisfy the whim of renaissantiste Occitanists premises that have managed to sell their bilingual class of parents anxious to give the best education possible? What is the meaning of the vocation of this lambda girl who, having learned the "Bearn" of its probable ancestors in a concern for local roots, go with all the goodwill of the world teach her poor Gascon bastardized in Guyenne, all in the name of unity and interchangeability Occitan dialects (as well as she knows Miramont, no Gascon not speak? Does she even know what the Gascon? Talk Does it still oc at Miramont?).

I am sensitive to the individual destinies of people and I am saddened by this manipulation of the willing. Gascon form in a girl of Beam to send in the big Occitan is nothing else than the reproduction of the pattern of mobility for French officials. The institutional Occitan manipulates young girls and boys with the lure of jobs in an era of questioning the stability of the teaching profession in schools. Pau is the incubator of Occitan. If I compare with the Basque case, we are once more ridiculous, abstract and ineffective bilingual teachers are "returnees" in the Basque country immediately where they teach unscrupulous batua the national language of neo-Basques. The

Occitan is an impasse lasting relativism dialect ("all dialects are equally worthy") fails on the refusal to fix areas where linguistic coherent policies. There are numerous examples: stirring dialects in the official communication of the Aquitaine region, indifference to the dialect taught in situ, what matters is whether the oc ... All this can only lead to evaporation of the remainder of Gascony, already initiated by sentimentally Midi-Pyrénées to the east. The only solution seems to be a clean break with the Occitan and Gascon developing a standard on the more conservative dialects (Philippe Lartigue argued the question).

I did not ask the question in addition to the painful practical interest of these bilingual classes, namely that they usually attract the children in the country (if available) but rather a social class mobile "pavilion" I want to say who sees this opportunity as the primary classes to put their children in rails stronger. Not forgetting the new behaviors
emerging, namely that the kids in these schools do not recognize in the patois of the last indigenous language being taught, where development of a morgue and a contempt. This is assuming there would of native speakers with whom the kids are in contact, which is the ultimate taboo Occitan, namely the refusal to see reality sociolinguistic disaster.

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Sutton-in-Top

There is a kind of cross-country ski centers I particularly like: those where you can ski in mostly narrow paths reserved for classical paths in mountainous terrain in which to play and descents without risking to break the figure. Genre Richmond Melbourne, Charlesbourg, Campers Park in Sainte-Agathe ... and of course Sutton-in-Top .

in Sutton-in-High, we do not ski almost never on the flat. Entire network is plotted on a mountainside and there is always going up or down. And it's more enjoyable because the trails are properly configured, properly maintained and just wide enough for one to be comfortable on the track.

Corner forest trails that criss-cross is really superb. At the bottom of the hill, you can ski in a thick forest of coniferous trees. And later in the mountains, near the only shelter on the trail, you pass along a small river running into a pretty ravine.

Sutton-in-High has almost did not open this winter because the company who were operating was shut doors. But the community quickly organized to save the season. Fortunately because the Sutton area enjoys a cold winter "winter." While the snow was scarce elsewhere in Quebec, this corner of the Eastern Townships Eastern Townships after receiving centimeters centimeters.

I had the opportunity to realize this weekend because I've skied in the snow and under a constant deluge of flakes. The trees were laden with snow and wind would sometimes drop an amount such that I could not see where I went.

is when the conditions are like that he must go to Sutton-in-High. Negotiate with the topography becomes a real pleasure. When the tracks are frozen by cons, it must not be obvious to ski there.

If we can make a reproach to Sutton-on-Top is to miss variety. As anyone climb the mountain converge to the shelter and all those who lead down to the foot of the hill, all trails are somewhat the same profile. After some going back, there is a certain monotony sets.

The only track a little different, it's 5 that crosses right through the network trail before forming a loop in gently rolling terrain. This loop then is not to be missed. Even if it is classified easy, there is a very good ski.

Side home, it's pretty rustic. The cottage at the entrance to the trails is cozy but rather cramped. And the toilets are in another building. The refuge in the forest is an old cabin where he yal'essentiel: a good wood stove and a few large tables. His greatest quality is its location. Perched on a ravine, he looks out of a postcard.

All for say I did a great ski weekend in Sutton. I spent the night at the Horizon hotel . It's an old hotel that barely conceals his age. The rooms are "retros" in the sense that they do not offer the level of comfort and aesthetics which is now expected.

By cons, there is a nice pool and a bar that was correct lively evening when I was there. And you can put your skis on leaving the hotel and direct access to trails from Sutton-in-High.

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Henry IV, "Henry IV"?

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Henry IV "Henry IV"? Certainly this is a dubious proposition, for two reasons. From a cultural standpoint, the King of Navarre was a French prince to the High Court of Valois, as had been his mother's niece Francis. I've always wondered what besides conversion to Protestantism was part of the soul Bearn bearnaise or the whims of its ruling family. Anyway, it seems that today nobody is fooled: myths about the Béarn Henry are recreations of the nineteenth century Romantic served to an audience that loves Bearn that we talk to him.

well, and it's related to whom Henry IV was culturally and genealogically the prince of Navarre was a French prince. It often overlooks the father of the King: there is not a family more representative of the French nobility that Bourbon (s?), I almost want to say oïlique.

side, we forget all too often be pointed out that the mother of Jeanne d'Albret was Marguerite d'Angoulême, sister of Francis! Henry IV by the fortunes of dynastic succession was found heir to the Kingdom of France, but a mother, it was a Valois and a close cousin of the last kings of this dynasty. It goes without saying that the Valois family, like any noble family in Europe, was highly cosmopolitan.

remains the maternal grandfather: Henry d'Albret. Romanticism tends to make a "Gascon". It was a good time at this time that the robbers were no longer Albret heath ... The Albret allied with Rohan to Sully already Bourbon, to Chatillon, ... Side of the mother of Henri d'Albret, it is the family of Foix, who was allied Louis XII. For the rest, she was descended from many English sovereigns. To find an ancestor Gascon Henry IV, he should have to go back to Amanieu Albret in the eleventh century ... And what is a proper ancestor Béarn, Henri IV had none!

In terms of the linguistic identity of the ruling family of Navarre, it seems to me that Jeanne d'Albret, born in Paris, unaware of the Gascon. As for his son, to my knowledge there is no evidence of the time tending to make us believe he spoke the language, or at least he had retained an accent when speaking French.