Gatineau Park

Trails Skied: #52, Glide Wax: Blue, Grip Wax: Vauhti Carrot covered with green

Beautiful day to be out for a lunchtime ski! Big fluffy flakes falling quietly, but if you listen carefully you can hear each one land.

I skied #52 from P17 to #50 and back. While beautiful, it was also slow. I was breaking trail in 5-10cm of fluff, and even on the return trip my skied in tracks weren't much faster. The fluff just folded over on itself and tracks were filled in again. When I got closer to P17 more people had skied it in and it was getting faster. Grip was easy but the loose snow on the firm base was just draggy. One skier on blue complained he had grip to climb trees, so you might want to cover that with green/polar. It wasn't fast, but was sure fun. We'll see what this next storm brings, but its all making for good skiing.

PS - I've had requests for trail reporters to post a selfie, if they wish to identify themselves and thus be showered with praise...or make new friends out on the trail. I've posted mine.













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