Gatineau Park

Trails Skied: Fortune Pkwy, Glide Wax: Vauhti glide Wet One -1 to +10, Grip Wax: universal klister

Reasonable classic conditions for the type of weather we're having on the FLP this morning. Snow was already softened when I arrived at P10 at 9:30. The stretch from the parking lot up to Fortune Lake was clean with nice mid depth tracking. The sections beside the lake were icy, watery and leaf strewn, but passable, albeit slow going. After that the clean, nicely defined tracking resumed up to the CP where it got icy again. Turned left at the T and it was clean sailing up the first climb, but dirty, icy on the downhill to Lac Bourgeois. Klister worked well and of course the wet snow made for some slowness. It felt like end of season classic skiing, but I can't believe we're done in early March. Still hoping for one more big storm..













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