Post by percypeaks on Aug 7, 2009 15:24:18 GMT -5
At 9:15 on Tuesday morning the 18th, the Sentiers frontaliers hiking club of Lac Megantic, Quebec will host a grand opening of their completed hiking trail system in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, and specifically their long link trail with the Cohos Trail over the boundary peaks of Mt. Salmon (Mont Saumon) and Mt. D'Urban (Mont D'urban).
If you have a passport, a passport card, or a birth certificate and photo i.d. and one other source of i.d., you could attend the ceremony, which will take place about 300 feet north (on the right) of the Canadian customs station at the border.
This new link trail is a very exciting prospect. It will take hikers up onto 3364-foot Mt. Salmon (taller than Mt. Magalloway). There are a number of exposed ledges on the route and plenty of cleared forest in the international boundary cuts. There are views aplenty, certainly.
Mt. Salmon is a miles long ridge, the long arm in the north that you see when standing at the boat landing at Second Connecticut Lake. You are ridge running for miles on Mt. Salmon until the peak drops off abruptly down to beautiful and placid Boundary Pond, once near a notorious smuggling route.
Once beyond Boundary Pond, the trail climbs rapidly to a 2,999-foot summit called Mt. D'Urban. There you can pick up the original trails created by the Sentiers Frontaliers. And if you have a passion for these things, you can reach the boundary monolith marker that is the boundary between NH, Maine and Quebec.
Now we are talking hike in remote terrain without the crush of humans. In this day and age, such a trek could almost be thought of as a spiritual vacation. Try that on Mt. Washington in August. Ain't going to be the same experience, I can assure you.
Hike 'til you drop.
percypeaks
If you have a passport, a passport card, or a birth certificate and photo i.d. and one other source of i.d., you could attend the ceremony, which will take place about 300 feet north (on the right) of the Canadian customs station at the border.
This new link trail is a very exciting prospect. It will take hikers up onto 3364-foot Mt. Salmon (taller than Mt. Magalloway). There are a number of exposed ledges on the route and plenty of cleared forest in the international boundary cuts. There are views aplenty, certainly.
Mt. Salmon is a miles long ridge, the long arm in the north that you see when standing at the boat landing at Second Connecticut Lake. You are ridge running for miles on Mt. Salmon until the peak drops off abruptly down to beautiful and placid Boundary Pond, once near a notorious smuggling route.
Once beyond Boundary Pond, the trail climbs rapidly to a 2,999-foot summit called Mt. D'Urban. There you can pick up the original trails created by the Sentiers Frontaliers. And if you have a passion for these things, you can reach the boundary monolith marker that is the boundary between NH, Maine and Quebec.
Now we are talking hike in remote terrain without the crush of humans. In this day and age, such a trek could almost be thought of as a spiritual vacation. Try that on Mt. Washington in August. Ain't going to be the same experience, I can assure you.
Hike 'til you drop.
percypeaks