Le Relais is a
ski mountain just 15 minutes from downtown
Quebec City,
Canada. It is the smallest of the four ski stations located near Quebec City with
Mont Sainte-Anne
Mont-Sainte-Anne is a ski resort in eastern Canada, located in the town of Beaupré, Quebec, about northeast of Quebec City. The mountain is part of the Laurentian mountain chain and has a summit elevation of above sea level with a vertical dr ...
,
Stoneham and
Le Massif.
Description
Located in
Lac-Beauport
Lac-Beauport is a town in the Capitale-Nationale region of Quebec, Canada, located on the eponymous Lake Beauport. It has a population of about 8,200 people, and lies about 25 kilometres north from downtown Quebec City.
Lac-Beauport is the home ...
, Le Relais is a family station of excellence known for the surface quality of its tracks. Although not a destination resort, Le Relais provides a very good ski experience thanks to the skiable field which can be entirely snow-covered artificially. Moreover, all of the tracks are well illuminated attracting a lot of people for night skiing.
Le Relais is also the home of the ''Centre national acrobatique Yves Laroche'' (CNAYL), an
aerial skiing
Aerial skiing or aerials is a freestyle skiing discipline where athletes ski down a slope to launch themselves off a kicker (a vertically inclined ramp) and perform multiple twists and flips before landing on an inclined landing hill. Aerialists ...
center. The CNAYL has a water ramp making summer training possible.
In summer Le Relais becomes an adventure center providing five high
rope courses better known in the region as ''arbre en arbre''.
History
Le Relais was founded in 1936, but the idea of it came during the 1933-1934 winter. At that time, it was suggested to locate the ski center on the
Plains of Abraham but
Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen, proposed another location : the Murphy mountain. The mountain of the actual site of Le Relais was then bought for the price of $1000. $8500 was raised to build a small lodge at the bottom of the mountain.
Le Relais is known as the birthplace of skiing in Quebec City.
See also
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Mont-Sainte-Anne
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Stoneham
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List of ski areas and resorts in Canada
External links
Le Relais English WebsiteFirst Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine
Ski areas and resorts in Quebec
Geography of Capitale-Nationale
Tourist attractions in Capitale-Nationale
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