Ski de montagne

Ski de montagne is a ski touring route in Maine, about 20 miles from the town of Daaquam. The out-and-back trip covers roughly 1.4 miles, with a total climb of about 545 feet from the start at around 2,069 feet to a high point of about 2,589 feet. The route is front-loaded, with the steepest stretch at about 0.58 miles in, where the grade reaches 20 percent. Winter is the natural season for this kind of outing. Typical averages from a nearby weather station at Clayton Lake show January highs around 20°F with lows near -4°F, and the station sits well below the route, so temperatures on the higher ground run cooler. The closest neighbor is the Ascension ski touring route, about half a mile away. Hikers can find the Sentier De La Traversée and Sentier Des Passerelles within about a mile and a quarter, and the Sentier De La Crête Des Grives is about 1.2 miles off.