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Mountains, snow, rock, and climate | News, History, Features from the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont | northstarmonthly.com
A year ago, Betsy and I flew west to cross-country ski among the spectacular Canadian Rockies around Canmore, Alberta. This year we also went to Canada, but this time drove straight north for four hours to Quebec City and then another half hour to Beaupre, Ste Ferreol les Neiges, and the Mont Sainte Anne Nordic Center.
Mont Sainte Anne is in the Laurentian Mountains where they meet the St Lawrence River. For the Canadian Nordic Ski Team, Canmore is their western training center and thus very well developed and maintained, while Mont Sainte Anne is more on the scale of our own Craftsbury Outdoor Center. Both are in scenic mountain settings, but the mountains are scenic in very different ways.
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