Mont Nixon 2018-04-10
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 4.64 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,178 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 1,161 ft
- Max elevation
- 2,147 ft
- TrailRank
- 37
- Min elevation
- 1,169 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 3 hours 55 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1387
- Uploaded
- April 11, 2018
- Recorded
- April 2018
near Lac-Supérieur, Québec (Canada)
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I made this loop in the counterclockwise direction. I used walking crampons, not snowshoes, which limited my movements to the busy main trail. The only negative side of crampons is when crossing a stream when walking on rocks. However, these rocks were covered with ice, so crampons were useful. With snowshoes, it would have been easy to cross the stream a little further where a thick crust of snow covers it.
The view at the top is beautiful. The summit is not laid out, there is no structure of the "La Roche" or "la Corniche" type of the SÉPAQ. You have to get close enough to the chasm to take good photographs. Speaking of the SÉPAQ, this trail passes in part in the Mont-Tremblant National Park and you have to pay for the box or have an annual card SÉPAQ. I did not meet a park warden, but on a previous hike to Mount Panorama, which shares the same parking lot, I met them and they checked the payments of everyone entering or leaving the park.
The beginning of the descent is very steep.
A very photographed point of this hike is the narrow passage between two big rocks. One can get an idea of the narrowness of the passage by comparing its width to that of my Nalgene bottle of a liter in its red envelope. The passage is narrower than my shoulder width and I have to cross it laterally after removing my bag. Climbing rope anchors were permanently attached to the rock on which my bag was leaning. It would be a very short climb.
It is a remarkable hike in a well-landscaped trail that is marked orange. The only thing deficient is the signage of other trails. This trail is connected to other trails that go to the Mont de la Vache Noire (Centennial Trail) and Mount Elephant. There is no clear indication of the final destination of some trails that are connected to that of Mount Nixon.
The view at the top is beautiful. The summit is not laid out, there is no structure of the "La Roche" or "la Corniche" type of the SÉPAQ. You have to get close enough to the chasm to take good photographs. Speaking of the SÉPAQ, this trail passes in part in the Mont-Tremblant National Park and you have to pay for the box or have an annual card SÉPAQ. I did not meet a park warden, but on a previous hike to Mount Panorama, which shares the same parking lot, I met them and they checked the payments of everyone entering or leaving the park.
The beginning of the descent is very steep.
A very photographed point of this hike is the narrow passage between two big rocks. One can get an idea of the narrowness of the passage by comparing its width to that of my Nalgene bottle of a liter in its red envelope. The passage is narrower than my shoulder width and I have to cross it laterally after removing my bag. Climbing rope anchors were permanently attached to the rock on which my bag was leaning. It would be a very short climb.
It is a remarkable hike in a well-landscaped trail that is marked orange. The only thing deficient is the signage of other trails. This trail is connected to other trails that go to the Mont de la Vache Noire (Centennial Trail) and Mount Elephant. There is no clear indication of the final destination of some trails that are connected to that of Mount Nixon.
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