We were expecting 20 cm of snow to fall up north last Sat night, but not also in the city.　 There was a lot of snow to clear off the cars on Sun morning and as a result we all arrived 10-15 minutes late at Parc des Campeurs for the scheduled 9:30 am arrival time.　 With the cold winter we have had, the temp was a blessedly mild -3 C under cloudy skies. It pretty much stayed at that temp the whole time we were there.

With all the new snow that had only just stopped falling as we arrived, the ski centre was behind in their grooming.　 With so much snow on the ground, they elected to first do a quick pass on the green and blue trails by snowmobile so they would be flattened (or “tapé” as they called it in french).　 So when we started skiing, it was on those flattened trails, but with some shallow tracks created by skiers who had already gone ahead of us.

We all started out together on the trail that winds through the campground, in between the snow-covered trailers.　 We got a couple of great group shots of all of eight us (in two photos, seven at a time).　 Sharon then went off to do her own thing while the rest of us took the green Stonehaven trail.　 The trails were beautiful, with much fluffy snow sitting gingerly on the tree branches.　 It happened several times that a slight breeze would nudge the overhead branches and unleash a small cascade of snow on top of us.　 One of the photos captures Continue reading →