# Event Details - **Event Name**: ?? SATURDAY MORNING HIKE — MONT SAINT-HILAIRE (8 KM LOOP) ? - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 04 Jul, 2026 at 09:00 am – Sat, 15 Aug, 2026 at 09:00 am - **Event Description**: ?? SATURDAY HIKE — MONT SAINT-HILAIRE (8 KM LOOP) ? Start your weekend with fresh air, exercise, and beautiful scenery! Join Montréal Trekkers for a moderate hike at the spectacular Gault Nature Reserve on Mont Saint-Hilaire, one of Québec's most beautiful natural areas. Just one hour from Montréal, this scenic hike features forest trails, rocky viewpoints, wildlife, and breathtaking views of Lake Hertel. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ? Saturday ? 9:00 AM ? Mont Saint-Hilaire Gault Nature Reserve ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ? WHY YOU'LL LOVE THIS HIKE ? Ancient forest with trees over 400 years old ? More than 600 plant species ? Rich biodiversity and wildlife ? World-famous mineral site ? Beautiful views of Lake Hertel ? Amazing photo opportunities ? Friendly and welcoming group atmosphere ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ? HIKE DETAILS • Trail: Rocky Loop 1 (Red & Green) • Distance: 8 KM loop • Elevation Gain: 267 m • Duration: Approximately 3 hours • Pace: Moderate group pace • Level: Intermediate ? We regroup regularly so nobody gets left behind. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏰ SCHEDULE 8:45 AM — Meet at parking area 9:00 AM — Hike begins 10:30 AM — Scenic snack break 12:00 PM — Return to parking area ⚠️ Please arrive early. The group departs on time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ? FEES ? Organizer Fee: $4 ? Park Admission: $9.85 Adult ? 17 years and under: Free ⚠️ Advance reservation required due to limited daily access. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ? ATTENDANCE POLICY To help cover organizer expenses and encourage commitment, a $4 organizer fee applies to this hike. ? E-Transfer: johnthomasmartin@hotmail.ca ⏰ Pay between 6:00 PM and 9:00 PM on the evening before the event. ❗Do NOT send payment before 6:00 PM. Please include: • Full Name • Event Name • Event Date Members who RSVP "Going" but do not submit payment by 9:00 PM may have their RSVP removed to allow space for committed participants. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ? CARPOOLING Need a ride? Comment below. Gas contribution approximately $20 per person. Drivers greatly appreciated. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ? MEETING LOCATION Gault Nature Reserve 422 Chemin des Moulins Mont-Saint-Hilaire, QC ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ? WHAT TO BRING ? Hiking shoes with good grip ? 1–1.5 litres of water minimum ? Snacks or light lunch ? Hat and sunscreen ? Insect repellent ? Small backpack ? Camera ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ IMPORTANT • Moderate fitness level required • Some rocky and steep sections • Event cancelled in heavy rain or thunderstorms • Please respect nature and Leave No Trace principles ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚕️ WAIVER By participating, you acknowledge the inherent risks associated with hiking and participate at your own responsibility. Montréal Trekkers organizers are volunteers and not professional guides. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ? EVENT CONTACT (TEXT ONLY) Johnny – 438-870-9128 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ? ENJOY A GREAT DAY ON THE TRAIL! Meet great people, get some exercise, and discover one of Québec's most beautiful hiking destinations. ? Comment "JOIN" below to reserve your spot. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/mont-saint-hilaire/saturday-morning-hike-mont-saint-hilaire-8-km-loop/200030241749215 - **Event Categories**: trips-adventures, Meetups, Nonprofit - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details ## Event venue details - **city**: Mont-saint-hilaire - **state**: QC - **country**: Canada - **location**: Réserve naturelle Gault, Mont St-Hilaire, Université McGill - **lat**: 45.53680149143 - **long**: -73.157164426725 - **full address**: Réserve naturelle Gault, Mont St-Hilaire, Université McGill, 424 Rue McGill, Mont-St-Hilaire, QC J3G, Canada, Mont-saint-hilaire ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: ?? SATURDAY MORNING HIKE — MONT SAINT-HILAIRE (8 KM LOOP) ? - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/ea8f1637707bbb7655eb875b371deed13bdde4835ce05947a119136dfaf73f13-rimg-w1200-h660-dcf1f0ed-gmir?v=1781559195 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is ?? SATURDAY MORNING HIKE — MONT SAINT-HILAIRE (8 KM LOOP) ? being held? - **A:** ?? SATURDAY MORNING HIKE — MONT SAINT-HILAIRE (8 KM LOOP) ? takes place on Sat, 04 Jul, 2026 at 09:00 am to Sat, 15 Aug, 2026 at 09:00 am at Reserve naturelle Gault, Mont St-Hilaire, Universite McGill, 424 Rue McGill, Mont-St-Hilaire, QC J3G, Canada, Mont-saint-hilaire. - **Q**: Who is organizing ?? SATURDAY MORNING HIKE — MONT SAINT-HILAIRE (8 KM LOOP) ?? - **A:** ?? SATURDAY MORNING HIKE — MONT SAINT-HILAIRE (8 KM LOOP) ? is organized by John Martin. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "?? 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