Back in 1931 if you broke your ski you would buy a single replacement, as shown in this ad from the Ottawa Ski Club News.
I’ve been scanning the entire collection of old OSC newsletters into PDF and I’m almost done. Lots of fun history in there!
Ski Trail Reports- 2011-04-04 by Jo-Ann Holden from P8 [Chelsea]I skied from P8 to Mica and also checked out about half of the Doldrums. It wasn\'t exactly raining, and temperatures were about 1 to 2 degrees. If you like to go fast and far, this wouldn\'t have suited you. I thought it was wonderful, though.... Continue reading → […]
- 2011-04-04 by Florence Lehmann from P10 [Fortune]Did P10 to gossip corner, up Ridge to Huron and back via CP and FP. It was winter out there, a wet kind of winter day. It started out as a nice ski. Fresh snow covering the trail. Rather pleasant. The way back was rather wet and slow as it was raini.... Continue reading → […]
- 2011-04-03 by Karl Saidla from P9 [Dunlop]It was a pretty much perfect day for spring skiing. We started from P9 because P10 was full! We skied up the parkway, up Burma,past Champlain, back to Keogan following the Parkway, along Ridge to Chicken Run, around the racing trail, and then home. O.... Continue reading → […]
- 2011-04-03 by Florence Lehmann from P16 [Vallee-Meech]Skate skied from P16 all the way to intersection with #73. The trail is changing very fast. Given it's partly in the shade, it alternated between soft snow and icy conditions for the most part. A fair bit of dirty snow (which made gliding slower by .... Continue reading → […]
- 2011-04-04 by Jo-Ann Holden from P8 [Chelsea]
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The cards that GuideGatineau has begun distributing to promote the website are considered to be highly environmentally responsible due to the fact that the paper used is 100% recycled and is produced using energy from biofuels plus the ink is vegetable based.
