Gatineau Park

Trails Skied: Champlain Pkwy, #1, Champlain Pkwy, MacKenzie-King Rd , #9, #20, Glide Wax: Violet, Grip Wax:

Another beautiful weekend of skiing. Yesterday Terry captured my ski at Lac Phillipe - we must have passed each other somewhere as I was out at the same time. Today I skied from P6 up to Champlain lookout. Took a short side trip across the crust of Bourgeois lake (following some other tracks from today) over to ridge and then followed ridge to gossip corner to rejoin the parkway.

As a rare treat the groomer had rolled straight through the lookouts rather than looping back at Huron in spite of a couple of bare patches of asphalt.

Skied out 1 to gossip north before jumping into the ponds for some excellent crust cruising. Spent 45 minutes winding my way from one bog to another lake on solid crust. Lots of tracks in there meant I wasn't the only one but I saw no one.

Stumbled out of the ponds at ridge and skied back to Huron and then down the parkway to P6. Based on how spoiled we've been for the last few weeks I debated giving only 3 snowflakes because it wasn't sunny today... so if someone could work on that for my next ski it would be much appreciated. Only a few icy patches spotted on my whole ski apart from the open asphalt at Brule an Champlain lookouts.













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