Stoneham, Quebec
Encyclopedia
Stoneham Mountain Resort is a ski resort
, located north of Quebec City
, Quebec
, Canada
, in the municipality of Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury
. The mountain has a peak elevation
of 632 metres (2075 ft) above sea level and a vertical drop of 420 meters (1380 ft). There are 32 trails covering 132 hectares (326 acres) on four mountains. Sixteen trails covering a network of 74 hectares (184 acres) are available for night skiing, consisting in the largest network of night skiing in Canada. The resort is owned by Resorts of the Canadian Rockies.
World Cup Finals, held yearly in March. In January 2013, Stoneham will host the FIS snowboard world championships. It is the most important snowboard competition after the winter olympic games. In 1993
the mountain hosted a slalom
event of the alpine skiing
World Cup, won by one of the best ever, Alberto Tomba
of Italy
.
Ski resort
A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing and other winter sports. In Europe a ski resort is a town or village in a ski area - a mountainous area, where there are ski trails and supporting services such as hotels and other accommodation, restaurants, equipment rental and a ski lift system...
, located north of Quebec City
Quebec City
Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...
, Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, in the municipality of Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury
Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury, Quebec
Stoneham-et-Tewkesbury is a united township in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in the regional county municipality of La Jacques-Cartier north of Quebec City...
. The mountain has a peak elevation
Elevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....
of 632 metres (2075 ft) above sea level and a vertical drop of 420 meters (1380 ft). There are 32 trails covering 132 hectares (326 acres) on four mountains. Sixteen trails covering a network of 74 hectares (184 acres) are available for night skiing, consisting in the largest network of night skiing in Canada. The resort is owned by Resorts of the Canadian Rockies.
Notable events
Since 2007, Stoneham has been the host of the Snowboard FISInternational Ski Federation
The International Ski Federation, known by its name in French, Fédération Internationale de Ski is the main international organisation for ski sports...
World Cup Finals, held yearly in March. In January 2013, Stoneham will host the FIS snowboard world championships. It is the most important snowboard competition after the winter olympic games. In 1993
1993 Alpine Skiing World Cup
The 27th World Cup season began in November 1992 in Sestriere, Italy, and concluded in March 1993 in Åre, Sweden. Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg won his fifth overall title, which still stands as the most in World Cup history...
the mountain hosted a slalom
Slalom skiing
Slalom is an alpine skiing discipline, involving skiing between poles spaced much closer together than in Giant Slalom, Super-G or Downhill, thereby causing quicker and shorter turns.- Origins :...
event of the alpine skiing
Alpine skiing
Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four...
World Cup, won by one of the best ever, Alberto Tomba
Alberto Tomba
Alberto Tomba is an Italian retired alpine ski racer. He was the dominant technical skier in the late 1980s and 1990s. Tomba won three Olympic gold medals, two World Championships, and nine World Cup season titles; four in slalom, four in giant slalom, and one overall title...
of Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
.