The club’s annual ski clinic will be on Sat Jan 26 at the Morin Heights Cross Country Ski Centre. The clinic is conducted by certified x-c ski instructors. It starts at 1:00 pm and lasts 1 to 1.5 hours. The club will pay for the lesson, you just have to buy a regular trail ticket.
This year we will have four classes instead of the usual three. We will have a class for skate-skiing in addition to the three classes for classic skiing at the beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. There is a maximum of 10 people per class.
We need to prepare for how many people want to take what level of instruction. If you do want to attend the clinic, send a message to the clinic organizer Glenn Kyte. REMEMBER to tell Glenn which class you want to take: beginner, intermediate, advanced or skate-skiing. The clinic usually fills up so don’t delay!
Day: January 9, 2013
Last Sat at Ski and Pot Luck — 35 Dined Well!
After all my messages cautioning members about the variable conditions at Mount Royal, only 16 people turned out at 10 am. Of them, twelve came to ski, while four opted to go walking. It was sunny and about -9 C as the skiers set out. As predicted, the city had not groomed the trails. There were no defined tracks for most of the first parts of the trail. Farther along, there were only inchoate tracks that had been created by skier traffic. For the twelve experienced skiers out on this morning, this did not present a problem. And the conditions were otherwise great. There was a thick base and the descents were snowy
with no icy spots. What’s more, the scenery was spectacular with soft snow still resting delicately on the branches and sparkling in the sun. For those of us who usually ski Mount Royal at night, it was a treat to see the trails in daylight!
It turned out that many of the those who did not go to Mount Royal, still did get out. One contingent of skiers skied at Cap St Jacques, another city-run large park, but at this one they are somehow able to groom the trails. So after a good bout of morning exercise, people began