Gatineau Park

Trails Skied: #50, #52, Glide Wax: Blue, Grip Wax: Vauhti Teho Green covered with Vauhti Carrot

I think we found our missing February weather! Great to have hard wax conditions for a full week in March. I waited until it warmed up a bit and headed back to P17 for the second day in a row. Yesterday I skated the Wakefield triangle, today I thought I'd classic 52-50-36 and return, possibly with the rest of the triangle at the end.

The ski started off so well. Perfect grooming, perfect grip and good glide, perfect temperatures (-5C and no wind). Near the top of 52 I was just feeling warmed up when I skied over someone's kleenex, stumbled and broke my pole. Grrr...real skiers use the back of their glove!

After a few choice words I decided to continued on with one pole. I had to laugh, every Sunday all winter I coached 5 year olds and we ski without poles, and without complaints. So this was a usual Sunday ski. I made it to Herridge before I decided that the full distance wasn't in the cards. Not quite the ski I envisioned, but a great day on the trails non the less.













Gatineau park map


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.

Gatineau park map

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).

Gatineau park map