{"id":14987,"date":"2022-09-26T11:48:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T15:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=14987"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:03:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T19:03:54","slug":"the-cabot-trail-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=14987","title":{"rendered":"The Cabot Trail hills"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are four sizable hills around Cape Breton’s Cabot Trail. Cycling counterclockwise, there is Smokey Mountain (south of Ingonish), North Mountain (east of Pleasant Bay), MacKenzie Mountain (south of Pleasant Bay) and French Mountain (north of Cheticamp). Here are the details on the climbs…<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Smokey Mountain<\/strong><\/h3>\n

climb is 7.2 kms from Wreck Cove to the Cape Smokey summit<\/p>\n

366 m elevation at a 12-15 per cent grade<\/p>\n

descent is approximately 10 kms<\/p>\n

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North Mountain<\/strong><\/h3>\n

climb is 5.5 kms from Big Intervale to the summit<\/p>\n

467 m elevation at a 12-15 per cent grade<\/p>\n

descent is 4 kms<\/p>\n

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MacKenzie Mountain<\/strong><\/h3>\n

climb is 4.7 kms from Pleasant Bay to the summit<\/p>\n

370 m elevation at 9-12 per cent grade<\/p>\n

this summit is linked to the French Mountain<\/p>\n

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French Mountain<\/strong><\/h3>\n

linked to MacKenzie summit<\/p>\n

descent is 5.5 km from summit to bottom<\/p>\n

452 m elevation at 9-12 per cent grade<\/p>\n

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SOURCE:\u00a0 Parks Canada @ https:\/\/www.pc.gc.ca\/en\/pn-np\/ns\/cbreton\/activ\/cyclisme-cycling<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris George, providing reliable PR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer or experienced communicator? 613-983-0801 @<\/em> CG&A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are four sizable hills around Cape Breton’s Cabot Trail. Cycling counterclockwise, there is Smokey Mountain (south of Ingonish), North Mountain (east of Pleasant Bay), MacKenzie Mountain (south of Pleasant Bay) and French Mountain (north of Cheticamp). Here are the details on the climbs… Smokey Mountain climb is 7.2 kms from Wreck Cove to the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[83,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14997,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14987\/revisions\/14997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}