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<title>XC Ottawa Trail Reports: the Gatineau Park</title>
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<title>2013-04-17 by Paul Jaenicke from P12 [Meech]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Brief loop from P12=&gt;#40=&gt;#2=&gt;#1 right=&gt;#24 far end=&gt;#40=&gt;P12. Decided to ski up #2 black there are a few bare spots, with some streams running under the trail in places. Trail #1 was good past Western, but the usual bare spot near . . . ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:26:27 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-17 by Ron Lorenson from P10 [Fortune]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ The end is nigh but not here yet. 

I had a short PM tour to Huron from P10 via FP and Ridge for lunch and sitting. Returned via CP and FP. I took my own advice and used waxless which, although a tad inelegant, worked fine. I was able to ski most o. . . ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:03:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-16 by Karl Saidla from P10 [Fortune]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ It is starting to be the time of year to head to the reliable late-season spots. We tried P10 this evening. There were alternating sections of bluish ice and old dirty snow with bare patches beginning to appear between P10 and the Fortune Parkway/Rid. . . ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:35:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-15 by Ron Lorenson from P10 [Fortune]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ I agree with David's comment regarding FP and CP conditions except for a slightly different perspective from having skated. CP is quite cut up in the skating track between the T-junction and Huron - classic would be easier for that stretch. Wrt the w. . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Ron Lorenson)</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:36:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-15 by David Brownrigg from P10 [Fortune]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Snow coverage on the FP and CP is still good with icey slushy sections that are now close to the pavement.  Single classic lanes on either side of the FP, which appeared to have been groomed recently, are in good shape.  No track grooming beyond the . . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (David Brownrigg)</author>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 11:42:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-14 by Jo-Ann Holden from P5 [Penguin]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ A beautiful and solitary ski late this afternoon, from P5, with short side trips on parts of trail 15 and two unmarked trails.  The snow was very clean and not heavily used in this area, but VERY slow, even on the downhills.  While the Gatineau Parkw. . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Jo-Ann Holden)</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:17:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-14 by Ken Trischuk from P7 [Kingsmere]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Skied out of P7 today. Conditions were pretty good considering it's mid April. For me it was just nice to be skiing in the sunshine. Ridge road has been well &quot;walked&quot; by hikers but surprisingly I only saw 2 small groups of walkers while I s. . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Ken Trischuk)</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:58:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-14 by Florence Lehmann from P10 [Fortune]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ P10-&gt;FP-&gt;CP-&gt;Huron cabin-&gt;Ridge to gossip corner-&gt;FP
I went out later than Andy. The word of the day is SLOW. It was slow on the way up but not too bad. The bare patches at Huron Lookout discouraged me from going further. Ridge to gos. . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Florence Lehmann)</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:24:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-14 by Paul Jaenicke from P12 [Meech]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Skied out of P12=&gt;#40=&gt;#24=&gt;right on #1=&gt;Wolf Bench=&gt;#1=&gt;#2 black=&gt;#40=&gt;P12. I knew arriving at the parking lot with roughly 15 cars for this time of year spelled one thing= HIKERS

I was correct I met 19 hikers just on trai. . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Paul Jaenicke)</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:09:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-14 by Andy Jonyas from P10 [Fortune]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Although I could not remember so much snow in the Parc this late in the year, it is getting rough and bumpy on the parkways. At 0900 I was at Huron, with big flakes of snow falling. It was like December. It was also dead quiet, and not having skied t. . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Andy Jonyas)</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:56:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-14 by Ron Lorenson from N/A [Other]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ The last time I was at Huron there was an NCC notice stating that, due to a policy of keeping the park as natural as possible including a prohibition of feeding wildlife, the bird feeders would be removed. Those welfare-bum chickadees can look elsewh. . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Ron Lorenson)</author>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 05:35:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-13 by Ken Trischuk from P16 [Vallee-Meech]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Decided to ski out of P16 today and had a nice glide out to Healy and Herridge. No fresh grooming but none expected. Only one other car in the lot when I arrived but there were a few people who had skied this way earlier than I and they set a nice tr. . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Ken Trischuk)</author>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:50:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-13 by Florence Lehmann from P12 [Meech]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ More pics from today ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Florence Lehmann)</author>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:00:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-13 by Florence Lehmann from P12 [Meech]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Thanks to Paul's report, I decided to go back to P12 today. I was not disappointed. I did #40-&gt;right on #24-&gt;left on #1-&gt; #1b to Champlain Lookout-&gt;#1-&gt;#2-&gt;40.
Lots of fresh snow. It was soft and somewhat abrasive. Otherwise I got . . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Florence Lehmann)</author>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 13:53:32 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-13 by Megan McTavish from P10 [Fortune]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Wet fresh snow, but fairly firm and surprisingly not that slow.  They groomed from P8 to Huron.  You can ski everywhere else too, but the groomed parts were the nicest.  You can still use good skis on the parkway, but it might be smart to use rock sk. . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Megan McTavish)</author>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 10:34:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-12 by Paul Jaenicke from P12 [Meech]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Fresh Powder in April wow!!!! didnt quite know what to expect as I made the slow drive to P12, when I got there shortly after 3 pm there were 3 cars and signs of tracks of a few hours ago.

It was a  mix of snow/ ice pellets falling, the trails had. . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Paul Jaenicke)</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:58:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-12 by Jo-Ann Holden from P10 [Fortune]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ A day without other commitments - and fresh snow/pellets falling.  A great gift for mid April.  None of the parking lots were plowed today, and Meech Lake Road was extremely icy and dangerous, so I felt fortunate not to have driven far. I was the fir. . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Jo-Ann Holden)</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:19:37 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-12 by Karl Saidla from P10 [Fortune]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Last night we tried P10 given the fact that it had been groomed. By the time we got out it had cooled off and things were freezing up so it was fairly bumpy and rutted for skating. The classic tracks between P10 and the T were in good shape. Grooming. . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Karl Saidla)</author>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 05:01:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-11 by Ron Lorenson from P10 [Fortune]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ The FP has been groomed this AM for both skate and classic. Conditions are good in most places with the exception of the few places where the underlying ice didn't yield to the groomer. Grooming stops at the T-junction. I attempted to continue on the. . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Ron Lorenson)</author>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:48:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-11 by Karl Saidla from P5 [Penguin]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Skied again last night from P5. Conditions were very similar to the day before--soft and dirty, but the snow is actually getting old enough that in some places it is reasonably fast. It didn't appear that any grooming had been done recently, so the c. . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Karl Saidla)</author>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 06:27:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-10 by Jo-Ann Holden from P10 [Fortune]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Last photo! ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Jo-Ann Holden)</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:17:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-10 by Jo-Ann Holden from P10 [Fortune]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ A beautiful spring day for skiing.   A few of the usual early melting spots are looking suspiciously thin, and some spots, especially classic tracks, are getting very dirty.  The skating was slow or not so slow, depending on the snow/ice content, but. . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Jo-Ann Holden)</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:15:38 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-10 by Karl Saidla from P5 [Penguin]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Got out for a short ski last night from P5. We went up Penguin and along Ridge Road for awhile. Generally speaking there is still alot of snow. Be careful of a few bare patches on Penguin. It is slow and dirty, and I didn't see evidence of recent gro. . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Karl Saidla)</author>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:13:17 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-09 by Paul Jaenicke from P7 [Kingsmere]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Decided to check on the trails out of P7. Skied up #30=&gt;#1=&gt;#4=&gt;#14=&gt;#1=&gt;#31=&gt;#30=&gt;P7. The good news trail  #4 &amp; #14 lots of snow and fairly clean. The bad Ridge road is very dirty understandably with a lot of evergreens ther. . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (Paul Jaenicke)</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:08:17 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>2013-04-09 by David Brownrigg from P10 [Fortune]</title>
<description><![CDATA[ When it gets late in the season I can always count on the FP for decent skiing.  No fresh grooming today but the tracks are still mostly clean even after last night's rains. There are more icey slushy stretches with no more track setting but not enou. . . ]]></description>
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<author>info@xcottawa.ca (David Brownrigg)</author>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:15:20 -0700</pubDate>
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