Usually, we get more snow up north and in the Eastern Townships than we do in the city, especially early in the season.  But last week’s storm dumped about 30 cm on Montreal, while only 15 cm elsewhere.  As a result, while places like Gai Luron did not have enough snow to open, the local parks were doing great.  Cap St Jacques was fully groomed by Fri, while Mt Royal was lagging, so we made CSJ our destination for both Sat and Sun.

The heavy snow on Wed was followed by some light flurries on Thu and Fri.  The result was perfect ski conditions at CSJ: a good thick base, but also fluffy snow clinging to the branches, making for a magical winter setting.  We only knew that CSJ had groomed the trails because we stopped by the park at mid-day on Fri.  Neither the Montreal Grand Parcs website nor the SkiNet website had any report that CSJ was even open.  But we knew better!  And boy, did we Beaver Tailers turn out out in large numbers!

On Sat morning, we had 13 members out skiing at CSJ.  A smaller group, but we did get the update message out a bit late on Fri evening.  It was cloudy and -6 C at 10 am.  All enjoyed the ski conditions and most completed the 10 km “red rabbit” trail.