"Skiing in Newfoundland? There’s skiing in Newfoundland?"
Even the young woman manning the Canadian Immigration Service booth was startled to hear it.
But, yes. There is downhill skiing and snowboarding in Newfoundland.
Marble Mountain is the primary spot to pass the time in that pastime.
And, if you’re surprised to hear you can downhill in Newfoundland, you’d be—as I was—even more surprised at just how fine the Marble Mountain skiing can be.
Okay, no. This isn’t Canadian skiing on the scale of Whistler or even Tremblant. But it is skiing that can hold its own with most of the ski areas in the eastern U.S. and Canada.
