We had breakfast in the apartment, then drove to the other resort to check in, then to a coffee shop Mont-Tremblant Village to get lattes to drink while we drove to Nominingue, which is the northernmost point to which we cycled to last fall.
I get the sense that the trail hasn’t officially opened yet. It closed to cycling just after we were here at the beginning of November, for maintenance then for snowmobiling and skiing. The station house at Nominingue is having repairs done today, and the tourist information booth hadn’t opened yet. However, the washrooms and water were available.



This picture frame was near the station and Cindy was a good sport posing with her bike in it.

This group of sheds is partially for markets and partially rented out as accommodation on Airbnb for $26 a night.

There weren’t a lot of sights along the trail today, except when it opened up for small lakes. It was mostly a tunnel of trees.

From time to time we would pass industrial uses along the trail.

This section of the trail had regular outhouses. I used this one and there was no smell, at all. I’m not sure what the pile of bark was for as there was toilet paper provided.


It’s quite unusual, in my experience, to see better cycling infrastructure, than roads.

We passed this couple on the trail several times, and his red jacket made for a nice pop of color.

Here we are at our turnaround point and where we plan to park the car tomorrow.

This is the only road we went under the whole day.

Cindy got a nice chain tattoo because we oiled our chains before heading out this morning after removing all the dust from the gravel roads yesterday.

Many of the roads in this area are gravel, and in some places the asphalt of the trail continues across the gravel road. This suggests to me that the person responsible for this section understands the needs of cyclists. It is safer not to transition from asphalt to gravel, and more comfortable. There was also a lot of orange spray paint indicating many rough spots, which helped us to avoid them some of the time, although there were sections where the rough spot were so numerous they were impossible to avoid, and the orange paint just gave a visual warning of the rough ride you were about to endure. Hopefully repairs will soon follow – we did see several maintenance trucks working.

The trail is paved in its entirety Mont-Tremblant Mont-Laurier, but a lot of the pavement is in poor shape. I read a blog from 2019 sharing the same complaint.
We didn’t identify anywhere convenient to eat along the trail, so we took some hard-boiled eggs, nuts and a protein bar with us.
Neither of us did as much cycling over this past winter as we have over previous ones, and we’ve been finding the days a bit tiring.
Here I’m carrying the bike back up to the apartment, happy to be back. There wasn’t a lot to see it along this section of the trail. I would say it was one of my least favourite although still enjoyable. The weather was absolutely perfect today with a slightly cool starting temperature and pleasantly warm afternoon with almost no wind.

We had a simple, but enjoyable dinner and relaxed in the apartment for the evening.

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