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Bromont Offers Color-Coded Connections For Single Quebecois

By J.D. O'Connor
March 06, 2006

You have to hand it to Bromont. The Eastern Townships resort came up with an ingeniously simple method of heating up those long, cold lift lines during its popular Nuit Blanche (White Night) night skiing sessions.

Les brassards d'amour - Armbands of Love. The mountain offers their youthful clientele green armbands if they're "single" and don't want to be; yellow armbands if they are curious but also cautious; and red ones if they're there to ski and don't want to be bothered.

The Nuit Blanche events (C$21.75, plus tax, or $19.21US, to ski or ride from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m.) are held six times during the season and are so popular with the 20-something night skiing/après set that a speed-dating venue was established to further aid the lovelorn.

Green and Yellow participants sit at fireside tables and fire off a string of questions for potential mates during two-minute-long "dating" sessions while "Reds" dance, safely alone and aloof, in the bar.

Most frequently asked: "Are you married? Have kids? Smoke?" and "are you employed?

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