No, not permafrost. It was near the peak at one of the big hills on the Cabot Trail in Highlands National Park, Cape Brenton Island, Nova Scotia. I call them hills, but they were labeled as mountains. I stopped for a photo at one of them, below. I agree that some of the trees at higher elevation there were stunted, similar to permafrost.



There is a lot of tourism literature that talks about how scenic that place is. I was obviously there on a wrong day since I was in the clouds.