Gatineau Park
Trails Skied: #50, #51, #52, #53, #55 (green - shared), #55 (green - alternative), #55 (blue - alternative), #57, Glide Wax: Green, Grip Wax: Swix special blue
Skied out of P17 today doing the Wakefield triangle plus a loop out to Taylor Lake. Can't add much to what Ron said on Saturday except that conditons were all freshly groomed this morning and just excellent skiing. Temperature even warmed up a little after the brisk conditions of the weekend. The only trail that hadn't been groomed today was 55 blue but it was still in fine shape(owing no doubt to lower skier traffic that uses that connector trail) after likely being groomed on Saturday.
Chatted with a ski patroller at Renaud hut who told me that his partner had skied up 54 black today and said it was in decent shape. I didn't ski it and would think I might let a few more snowfalls come before I ski down that trail as its pretty rough at the best of times but YMMV. More snow tomorrow so I guess winter is finally here.
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Gatineau Park is ski paradise! The network of ski trails offer machine groomed skate skiing and classic skiing as well as little groomed backcountry trails. Multiple access points allow skiers to access a variety of terrain and scenery.
The NCC offers season or daily pay rates.
For suggestions on where to ski, excellent trail descriptions, photos and maps checkout Michael McGoldrick`s website about recreational xc-skiing in Canada`s National Capital Region (with an emphasis on the Gatineau Park).
