FAQ - uphill skiing

No. Season pass and day tickets for uphill skiing do not work with the RFID card system at the moment.

No. For safety reasons, dogs are not allowed even on a leash.

Access to Mont-Orford ski resort

Online or at customer service.

Access to SÉPAQ

Daily access is available online, at the SÉPAQ counter and at the Mont-Orford customer service counter.

The subscription is available online, or at the SÉPAQ counter.

The Renard, Alouette, Campagnol, Lièvre and Tracé du Lynx trails are on SÉPAQ territory, if you wish to use these trails you will need to obtain SÉPAQ access.

To see the trail map click here
To see the SÉPAQ rates click here

• Offered from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., one of the widest availability periods among Quebec ski resorts.
• Allowed on ascent trails, but also on alpine ski slopes before and after the resort opens, which is very rare in Quebec.
• Access to three shelters, one at each summit of the mountain, allowing uphill skiers to change their equipment and rest sheltered before the descent.
• At the beginning and end of the season, we allow uphill skiing in a corridor along the edge of the slope, even when the mountain is open for downhill skiing.
• With 12 ascent trails and 12 ascent and descent trails, Mont-Orford has the largest offer of trails and trails in the region.
• As they are partly in the territory of the SÉPAQ, the ascent trails are among the most peaceful and best preserved in the region.

The chalet is open from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. everyday
The customer service counter is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m everyday.
The corridors and the ascent paths are accessible from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Some ascent areas (identified in yellow on the map) are not accessible from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. See the map.

The safety of site users and our employees is paramount. We also have strict requirements to respect in terms of insurance to allow the practice of uphill skiing on the mountain. Supervision of the practice is therefore indeed required and desirable.

The number of skiers, snowboarders and uphill skier is growing rapidly, while our facilities, including parking, have a limited capacity. Our biggest challenge is to ensure that as many users as possible, all products combined, have access to the mountain on weekends, as this is the busiest time.

The practice of uphill skiing entails unsuspected costs: site management, insurance, customer service employees, signage, weekly inspection of trails, infrastructure, administrative costs, etc. These costs are proportional to the traffic and Mont-Orford receives more uphill skiers than any other mountain in the region.

Expenses related to operations as well as the fact of offering uphill skiers corridors on the alpine ski slopes from the start of the season, in addition to allowing access to the trails and slopes outside the opening hours of the lifts mechanics, are increasing every year.

Since less than 20% of our “unlimited” and “weekly” members practice alpine touring, we have chosen to make a special upgrade for this particular offer rather than spreading the cost increase among all customers. of the mountain.