Activities & Photos

The Club's intention is to provide good facilities where families and individuals can enjoy a variety of winter activities. We may be best known for our well-groomed ski trails, but the snowshoe trails are also very popular and kids love the toboggan run. While we try to keep the wood stove burning in the cabin all day long, just remember, volunteers run the club so don't hesitate to help out and throw a log on the fire if it's needed.

Skiing Back Country

Jim Hooey took these pictures of a lynx encountered on a snowshoe hike early
in February. It was one of three spotted about the same time and location.

Classic and Skate Skiing

We have over 70 kilometres of trails, with a good balance of difficulty, that are groomed regularly with our Piston Bully 200 Groomer and over 20 km single track trails that are groomed with our Skidoo. In addition to the Main Cabin at the trailhead we have two warming huts, each equipped with stoves, tables and chairs and located to provide ideal lunch stops. Dogs are not allowed on these trails but they are welcome on our 20km of groomed K9 Trails.

Walking the Dog

We also have a K9 Trail (10km each way) where members and visitors may take their dog on a groomed trail for classic or skate skiing. dogs are permitted only on the K9 trail and the Backcountry and we ask owners to please be considerate of others who may be using any of our trails. The K9 trail which is frequently groomed begins at the Snowshoe kiosk near the quonset building and extends to the Fletcher Challenge, a distance of about 10km but, as yet is not a looped trail.

Skijoring/sledding is not an activity that is permitted on the Nordic K9 or Cross-country trails.

Non-members are asked to contribute $5 per day for use of the trail. The donation may be deposited in the donation box at the Snowshoe kiosk near the quonset.

Dogs are not allowed in any of the cabins.

This picture was taken on the K9 trail on February 11. Note the pootch wears the latest in footwear too. We were told that this prevents the buildup of snow balls on his feet.

Flagging Snowy Leopard

Photos: Roland Gebauer

These pictures were taken on Saturday, February 17. Lots of lynx tracks could be seen during the five hour ski and snowshoe outing that was led by Rick Gee. A group of five joined him in flagging the new trail.

Ongoing Committee Work

Left: Roxanne Warner and Ross Sutcliffe set out to GPS our trails for proposed new trail maps for next year. Right: Cec Dillabough(L) and Art Jones(R) set out for the outer cabins to consider the advisability of upgrading the outhouses next summer.

• Saturday December 01, 2007 - Flagging and Clearing Snowshoe Trails

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