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The massif welcomes several hundred thousand hikers each year. The Mercantour National Park, located within the massif, maintains 1,700 km of hiking trails, with 550 km in the central zone of the park. On the Italian side, the Maritime Alps Natural Park offers 400 km of hiking trails. The massif is traversed by the GR 5 and GR 52 trails.
Le Massif de Charlevoix ski area is located in Petite-Rivière-Saint-François, Charlevoix, Quebec, 90 km northeast of Quebec City.Its vertical drop is 770 m (2,526 ft), the highest in Eastern Canada and east of the Rockies. [1]
The mountain is divided between the French municipalities of La Bresse (dep. of Vosges), Metzeral (department of Haut-Rhin) and Stosswihr (department of Haut-Rhin).A 1,289 m (4,229 ft) mountain, located 1.5 km (1 mi) east of the Hohneck, is named Petit Hohneck (in English Little Hohneck).
The Massif Central is an old massif, formed during the Variscan orogeny, consisting mostly of granitic and metamorphic rocks.It was powerfully raised and made to look geologically younger in the eastern section by the uplift of the Alps during the Paleogene period and in the southern section by the uplift of the Pyrenees.
In 1927, a quay was constructed, leading to shipbuilding and maritime transportation activity in Petite-Rivière. Passenger service on the railway ended in 1959. In the 1970s, Le Massif ski resort opened. [4] In 1986, it changed status and name to become the Municipality of Petite-Rivière-Saint-François. [1]
The Morvan (French pronunciation: ⓘ; historically Morvand from the Latin Murvinnum c. 590) [1] is a mountainous massif lying just to the west of the Côte d'Or escarpment in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, central-east France. It is a northerly extension of the Massif Central and is of Variscan age.
Aerial view of the Sainte-Baume Massif de la Sainte-Baume. The Sainte-Baume (Provençal: Massís de la Santa Bauma according to classical orthography and La Santo Baumo according to mistralian orthography) is a mountain ridge spreading between the departments of Bouches-du-Rhône and Var in Southern France. Its summit is 1147 metres high.
Ski Chantecler is a ski resort in the Laurentides region of the Canadian province of Quebec, Canada.It is a few minutes away from the town of Sainte-Adèle and one hour north from Montreal.