Jo-Ann Holden has been running a photo-blog called Musician on Skis for several years. There she posts photos pretty much daily and mostly about people or scenery from Gatineau Park where she spends as much time as she can.
I interviewed Jo-Ann in the Renaud cabin where we stopped for a little lunch during a ski we did together. The photos shown in the video are all taken from those she has posted over the past year.
Charles Hodgson wrote a new blog post: Rachelle Eats Food 2 hours, 58 minutes ago
Who doesn’t? But Rachelle has posted a short mouth watering item on her dinner last night in Gatineau Park.
Of course I’ve dined too up in Keogan, Huron, McKinstry, etc. but I always think of those stories of people who’ve heard how great it is to eat up on one of the Gatineau Park shelters [...]
Charles Hodgson wrote a new blog post: Lac Philippe on a Friday 3 hours, 8 minutes ago
Peter Dudley spent his day on snowshoes yesterday and brings us some pictures along with his reflections.
Jean-Paul Murray commented on the blog post Land Acquisitions 16 hours, 42 minutes ago
Well, the land won’t actually be added to Gatineau Park, since it already is in the park … A more accurate description of the situation would be to say that private property encroachments are being removed from the park.
Although the NCC deserves some praise for doing this, it has done little to prevent construction around [...]
Charles Hodgson wrote a new blog post: Green Transportation Plan Next Steps 16 hours, 44 minutes ago
A week ago on January 15 the NCC ended its public comment period for the first phase of its Gatineau Park Green Transportation Planning process. According to the NCC 800 questionnaires were submitted and from what I hear this is a bit of a record. “The project team is currently analyzing the responses received. [...]
Charles Hodgson wrote a new blog post: NCC Race Warning 16 hours, 52 minutes ago
In addition to the grooming updates at the NCC website, today the following note alerts skiers about the Coupe Skinouk:
Please note, there will be a regional level cross country ski race in the southern part of the park on January 23 and 24th in the morning. They will start at the [...]
Charles Hodgson wrote a new blog post: Good Reports 16 hours, 55 minutes ago
A couple of reports (in addition to mine) of lovely ski conditions Friday, which bodes well for more of the same Saturday (and beyond). Two at XCOttawa and a picture’s worth 1k words.
Jean-Paul Murray commented on the blog post C-37 According to the NCC 22 hours, 46 minutes ago
In typical NCC fashion: lots of words that say absolutely nothing we don’t already know.
Perhaps Ms. Lemay could have told us that the bill was held up by John Baird (it was supposed to go through clause by clause study on November 4) to avoid embarrassing the government — since it was strongly opposed [...]
Charles Hodgson wrote a new blog post: P3 to Pink 23 hours, 39 minutes ago
10am Friday nipped up from Gamelin to Pink Lake and found the conditions excellent for skate skiing (which I was doing) as well as classic (well, it looked darn good in those tracks).
Charles Hodgson wrote a new blog post: 6 items on TriRudy 1 day, 1 hour ago
Yesterday’s TriRudy items on Gatineau Park ski trails prompted even more today, covering both trail reporting and grooming contract performance.
Charles Hodgson wrote a new blog post: Thieves in Parking Lots 1 day, 1 hour ago
Louis via TriRudy and Treena via Twitter raises an ongoing issue reminding people not to leave valuables in their cars in Gatineau Park parking lots. In recent cases credit cards & cash are reported stolen when nothing else has been disturbed.
Louis says “The Gatineau Police indicated they have 4 or 5 reports [...]
Charles Hodgson wrote a new blog post: Coupe Skinouk 1 day, 2 hours ago
Coupe Skinouk will take place at Relais Plein-air du parc de la Gatineau on Sat. and Sun. The trails around the RPA will be busy but not closed to public. Demsis ski patrol will attend the event to provide First Aid if necessary.
Charles Hodgson wrote a new blog post: NCC Maintenance Message 1 day, 2 hours ago
The NCC page that until yesterday had a photo of maintenance staff clearing fallen branches, today is linked from a heading “Warning: Difficult trail grooming conditions” and says:
On secondary trails, the snow base is now less than 5 cm in certain areas. This hinders the use of grooming equipment, and complicates the [...]
Marc Charron wrote on their own wire: 1 day, 11 hours ago
I’ve now posted details and pictures of my recent snowshoe outing in the Charlevoix area. See the following link for details
http://marccharron.blogspot.com/2010/01/liguori-shelter-sentier-des-caps.html
Charles Hodgson wrote a new blog post: Gatineau Loppet Sanctioned 1 day, 18 hours ago
XCOttawa has posted news that an elite group of racers in the Gatineau Loppet will vie for $1,500 purses in the various categories, plus results will be eligible for the Canada Points List.
Charles Hodgson wrote a new blog post: How Are The Trails Really? 1 day, 18 hours ago
With a number of commentators raving about the excellence of the Gatineau Park ski trails, others complaining about grooming, and no snow since Hull last froze over, skiers looking forward to a weekend outing are wondering what’s the real scoop on the trails.
Here’s my take.
Trails that skiers are reporting as sublime are those that the [...]