Today's #ski was an "epic adventure" for which @Kathryn Barr gets credit for both the general concept, distance and the route, as well as the choice of starting point. Every now and then she likes to push what we can do!
I should note that we generally ski distances of 7-10 km most of the time, but K wanted to do a huge trip of 21 km and today was the perfect day, as it reached about -5°C and the windchills were about -13 or so, making it easy skiing with no risk of things melting. We also had 2 cm of freash snow, plus brilliant sunshine and not a cloud seen all day long.
The route in #Gatineau #Park was a huge square from parking lot P8 to P9 on the Gatineau Parkway, the past P10 and then the 1000 foot vertical climb over 4 km to the intersection of the Champlain Parkway for a very short break on a bench. From there we started down the escarpment on the Champlain Parkway to the intersection with the Gatineau Parkway, past P5 and back to P8. Total distance was 21.1 km.
This earned us each an ice cream break on the way home. One advantage of ice cream cones at -7°C is that they don't melt!
