Take your pick: adrenaline packed or slow and contemplative?
Published on Jan 15, 2019
This weekend promises a plethora of winter pleasures! Two festivals feature a variety of winter sports and Mont Orford National Park is offering a ‘chocolate hike’. In addition to these outdoor activities, a couple of cultural outings are on the agenda. Have a great weekend !
Strap on a pair of snowshoes and set out for a torchlit hike along the snowy trails of Mont Orford National Park. When you return, sit down by the fire and tuck into a yummy chocolate and fruit dessert courtesy of Chocolats Venden Eynden. This activity is open to all and snowshoes can be rented on site.
Friday, January 18th (7pm-10pm) | Mont Orford National Park, Lake Stukely sector | Cost - $15 (adults), $11 (children aged 6-17)
Head for the ski centre at the foot of Mont Orford to participate in this festival themed around ‘winter pleasures’. The pleasures in question include riding a Fat Bike, telemarking, mogul skiing, snowpark and you’ll learn all about them for free! Winter aficiounados can also try out the skis and snowboards sold by the various companies that will be on site. Round out your day by dropping by the Slalom Pub where a DJ, live entertainment and free food tastings await….. You might even be lucky enough to win an exciting ride around the mountain by snowmobile!
Saturday, January 19 and Sunday, January 20 (8:30am-4pm) |Mont-Orford Ski Centre
Eastman also has a festival dedicated to winter fun and this one will give you ample opportunity to try out some sporting activities with equipment that is outside the norm - snow scooters, Fat Bikes, snowskates (similar to surfboards), paraskis, skin based skis (for trekking in the backwoods), canicross (skiing with your dog) and skijoring (skiing while being pulled by a horse).
In addition to trying out these unusual sports, visitors can enjoy tubing, dog-sledding, free hot drinks, a fire pit, games and taffy on snow. Winter pleasures indeed, especially for families. Eastman certainly offers something for every age!
Saturday, January 19 (1:30pm-4:30pm) at the Parc des Sports in Eastman | Sunday, January 20 (1:30pm-4:30pm) at Lac d’argent (free).
Discover the work of visual artists Josette Villeneuve and Sophie Roy at the Yvonne L. Bombardier Cultural Centre. Villeneuve focuses on environmental and humanitarian issues, while Roy examines our notion of tradition, by combining archival images with photographs of today’s urban landscapes.
Vernissage : Sunday, January 20 at 2pm | Exhibition runs from January 20-April 14, 2019 | Yvonne L. Bombardier Cultural Centre, Valcourt.
An exhibition entitled ILLÉGAL, Le trafic animal, about the illegal trafficking of animals, allows visitors to pick out a particular country and go on a kind of adventure. The challenge is to enjoy the animals native to the destination without being tempted to bring back a souvenir that might prove to be illegal. The exhibition educates visitors (but in an entertaining manner) about animals threatened by illegal trafficking.
ILLÉGAL, Le trafic animal (January 12-June 9, 2019) | Cost - $13 (adults) and $9 (children aged 4-17).
