With 27 cm (10 inches) of fresh snow from the recent storm, I headed to to #Gatineau #Park this morning.
I was #skiing on my own, since my #ski partner, @Kathryn Barr is still out of town until Monday night. I don't usually ski the main part of the park on the weekend, because it can get too busy and it it was. There were traffic jams to get into the park and at one stop sign. I started at parking lot P9, which holds 100 cars and by 0900 was half full. When I git back at 1130 hrs it was almost full up.
I skied about 15 km up the Eardley Escarpment on the Fortune Parkway, to the Champlain Parkway and then onto the Champlain Lookout. The skies were clear and the visibility unlimited so the view down the escarpment was good. From there I came back on Trail 1, which was not great, as it had not been properly groomed. From the stone bridge I headed back down the escarpment, which is a fairly quick run.
The pictures turned out pretty well. Many of the shots show the trees covered in a layer of ice from the recent freezing rain.
