Approximately 72 hours ago, a small group of Beaver tail’s wanna-be skiers descended upon the network of trails maintained by Le Club Equestre Les Forestiers, St Lazare, shared alike by seasonal walkers, poochies, cyclists, skiers, snowmobilers and resilient trail riders in a casual harmony of mutual respect. The promenade began as a replica of a 10 km ski, albeit without the skis, as the group diligently followed the well- beaten path lest they ventured astray and encountered a people-eating troll.[1] However, the brand new map of colour coded and numbered trails offered a fair representation of Continue reading →

Unlike the West Island there was a good covering of snow at Les Cedres, not enough to ski but definitely sufficient to get talk of which wax to use. Anyhow 14 walkers gathered on what was our first on foot visit to Les Cedres, of course many of us are familiar with the xcountry trails being one of our better local centres. We were also lucky to once again have a local, Christine BM to show us some of the off piste trails, normally the preserve of snow shoe’ers and horses. No the horse do not use snow shoes if that’s what you were thinking. So the starting gate was dropped and out we galloped, down some pretty trails and across several duck boarded areas. I had often seen school kids going down these trails and being a snob had dismissed them as nothing special , but I was wrong they were fun. Of course Al L planned to do his own thing and keeping to the xcountry ski trails to complete a loop. So our happy band minus Al L went up and down dales around tight bends, slipped nearly into cold looking streams and Continue reading →