Mont St. Pierre

[stevek]

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Cool site. Had a great time and some sweet flying. But it is too far. Also, the Moose Dung is worth $1.10(!) but it is sort of academic as there is nothing up there to buy. Still, I loved it. Very much worth it; I will go back.

So I guess that was our hurricane. What a gyp.

[Danny Brotto]

Steve

Mt St. Pierre... ahh brings back memories. Flew there for a week back in the day; very different flying the shear line. Went thinking good seafood and flying, got no seafood, decent flying, but good beer. It seems that Canada keeps the special good-stuff Molson for internal consumption. And (when not flying) consume we did as there's pretty much nothing else to do there. Loooong drive... and let's not talk about the border crossing or the "friendly" police in Quebec!

Danny Brotto

[stevek]

I thought they had good fish. Surprisingly good restaurants for a burg of that size. St. Annes about 30 minutes west, had more.

I don't think the link copied right. Try this

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[Danny Brotto]

Steve

Wow, from your pix it looks like the town really expanded. When I was there 25 years ago there were only a few houses and businesses and only 2 or 3 restaurants. The adjacent towns had more amenities but were a bit of a drive. Most of us camped. Looks quite different in town now.

From the vid, it looks like you got some ridge flying in. So did you get to fly the converge/shear? For the folks that have not been there, the mouth of the valley to the left of launch opens into the St Lawrence River. When the shear sets up, the land (Gasspe Peninsula) is heated pulling in the cool air over the river. The region above the town becomes soarable via shear. From what I've been told sometimes at the end of the day, the air turns 180 degrees and it begins to shear blowing out from the land mass! I've soared the NW shear but not the SE one. I've heard that you have to be careful with the SE shear as it can blow quite strong out to sea.

Glad you had a good time. Might be worth visiting again.

Danny Brotto

[stevek]

No, didn't get to fly the convergence/shear. It set up one afternoon but I had already landed. Also disappointed that I didn't get to fly the PG. There were no PG pilots there and I wanted somebody to go first.

[rlweber]

That is interesting. I flew there 17 years ago and the sky was full of paragliders. I had one flight, an extendo on my MkIV. The second day it was blown out for me (some pilots were comfortable with the higher winds). I was just re-entering the sport. I could only be there two days on the family vacation. It is a beautiful place and I would like to fly there again. But, as was mentioned, it is such a long (20 hr.) drive. However, the drive along the St. Lawrence seaway is magnificent with the steep cliffs going down to the water. Who knows what the future will bring?
Randy