Gatineau Park
Trails Skied: Fortune Pkwy, #1, #3, Glide Wax: Swix LF6 over graphite, Grip Wax: Swix VF30
It’s a day where you can decide whether you want creature comforts or fantastic skiing. Wrt to creature comforts, today involves light freezing drizzle that clouds the glasses in ten minutes and makes stopping cool and unpleasant. But, the snow conditions are glorious - fast and soft with everything required for complete control. The light rain seemed to give a special quality to the new snow. My classic route was:
P10 => FP => #1 => turned at bench by #2 => #1 => #3 => FP => P10
All the trails were perfectly trackset with soft classic tracks and a soft skating track. Burma was a special delight. Skating would be enjoyable but it’s really a day made for classic. In terms of snow conditions this was my best day of skiing this year!
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).
