These things make it so much safer and easy driving around on the snow packed roads.īuzz at Mont-Tremblant, February 2018 First Tracksĭuncan is the North’s big vertical bottom to top chair, but it’s incredibly crowded so we only got to ski it the 2nd day when we took advantage of the First Tracks program that was included with our hotel reservation. On the positive side, the rental cars in Quebec all have snow tires, and people know how to drive safely on snow there. We took off from Toronto about the time we were supposed to land in San Francisco. So we had to rebook and connect in Toronto again instead of the direct flight we paid for. We were kicked from our flight along with 48 other people due to strong head winds and the plane could not fly full. My advice to anyone that feels like traveling to Montreal for skiing is to do it in March when these things are less likely to happen. 2 hours of driving in a snowstorm later we arrived at our hotel and got to sleep for about 4 hours. We didn’t get to leave for Tremblant until 1:30AM.

When we finally arrived Montreal, there was a problem with getting the bridge to the plane due to too much snow on it, and adding to that, a 1 1/2 hour delay getting baggage because the baggage handlers were slipping on the ice. We arrived during a rare strong snow storm in Toronto, and our connecting flight (by West Jet) to Montreal was delayed by over 5 hours due to airport issues, icing, and a missing crew. The plane circled for an hour to burn fuel so we could safely land. High winds from the west affected our flight by having us arrive too full of fuel to land! I’ve never heard of that before.

Traveling 3,200 miles in February with a connecting flight in Toronto is a huge risk and we paid the price with long delays and stress. Going to Quebec for the project was our most ambitious undertaking so far. Mont Tremblant Trail Map 21/22 A travel nightmare to remember …

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