Le Relais
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| Nearest city: | Quebec City, 11 km (7 miles) |
| Coordinates: | Coordinates: |
| Vertical: | 224 m (735 ft) |
| Top elevation: | 429 m (1,407 ft) |
| Base elevation: | 205 m (672 ft) |
| Skiable area: | 173 acres (70 ha) |
| Runs: | 27 total 22% Easy 23% Intermediate 55% Difficult |
| Longest run: | 2.05 km (1.27 miles) |
| Lift system: | 7 total 1 detachable quad 1 quad 5 surface lifts |
| Lift capacity: | 8,260 skiers/hr |
| Snowfall: | 342 cm (134 in, 11 feet) |
| Snowmaking: | 100% |
| Night skiing: | 100% |
| Web site: | Le Relais |
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, Stoneham and Le Massif.
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[edit] Description
Located in Lac-Beauport, Le Relais is a family station of excellence renowed 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 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.
[edit] 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.
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