Mount Pinacle (french: Le Pinacle) is a mountain located in
Coaticook, Quebec
Coaticook () is a town on the Coaticook River in southeastern Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of the Coaticook Regional County Municipality, and its southern border is also the Canada–United States border.
In addition to the primary community ...
Canada
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. The mountain has five
hiking
Hiking is a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside. Walking for pleasure developed in Europe during the eighteenth century.AMATO, JOSEPH A. "Mind over Foot: Romantic Walking and Rambling." In ''On Foot: A Histor ...
trails of varying difficulty, covering approximately , that visitors can explore with the purchase of an admission ticket. Experienced
rock climbers
Rock climbing is a sport in which participants climb up, across, or down natural rock formations. The goal is to reach the summit of a formation or the endpoint of a usually pre-defined route without falling. Rock climbing is a physically and ...
may scale the face of the hill starting from
Lake Lyster. The mountain is exploited for its abundance of maples, with a
sugar bush
Sugar bush refers to a forest stand of maple trees which is utilized for maple syrup. This was originally an Indigenous camp set up for several weeks each spring, beginning when the ice began to melt and ending when the tree buds begin to o ...
running along a portion of its trails.
History
The hill has been officially known as ''Le Pinacle'' since 1978.
In 2013, part of the hill was closed to rock climbing due to the nesting of
peregrine falcon
The peregrine falcon (''Falco peregrinus''), also known as the peregrine, and historically as the duck hawk in North America, is a Cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan bird of prey (Bird of prey, raptor) in the family (biology), family Falco ...
s on Mount Pinacle.
In June 2014, a 10-year-old child on a field trip went to the
emergency department
An emergency department (ED), also known as an accident and emergency department (A&E), emergency room (ER), emergency ward (EW) or casualty department, is a medical treatment facility specializing in emergency medicine, the acute care of pati ...
after surviving a 10-metre fall down a crevice on the mountain. Approximately a dozen firefighters were onsite for two hours rescuing the child, although he was not gravely injured.
References
External links
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Official website of the park*
Coaticook Historical Society's page on Mont Pinacle
Mountains of Quebec under 1000 metres
Landforms of Estrie
Appalachian Mountains
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