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SKI EQUIPMENT laminated skis by Andree! blue monogram model ...... 19.50 laminated skis by C.C.M. Ostbye model 18.50 flyte model 15.00 steel ski poles 7.50 tonkin cane poles .. 3.50 to 4.25 other lines of best grade hickory skis 9.95 to 22.00 Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 19'43 1 Introduction An attempt has been made in this "Guide" to describe the trails, hills, and lodges of the Ottawa Ski Club, in the hope that the information given may be of use, not only to the new members of the Club who are trying to find their way about, but also to those of .Jong ·standing who may not be aware of all the skiing and hiking possibilities to be found in the Gatineau Park. Perhaps the description of the various trails may be considered somewhat elaborate, but it was thought that a few historical notes would add to their interest. It is hoped that a map may be included in a revised edition of this booklet. In the meantime the map of the Gatineau Park prepared by the Federal District Commission, although not complete, will be found useful. This may be purchased at McGiffin's 80 Sparks Street. · It is generally recognized that means for recreation are essential if men and women are to make the best contribution in their war work. Skiing is undoubtedly one of the best forms of outdoor diver­ sion and deserves to be encouraged to the utmost. It may not be as easy to get to the hills of Camp Fortune this winter as in normal times, but there are many slopes closer at hand that may be reached wthout bus or car, and the limitations in transportation facilities should not prevent anyone from spending a few hours on ski every week end. For valuable assistance in the preparation of this booklet I am deeply indebted to James S. Patrick, secretary of the Ottawa Ski Club, and toM.]. Londeau, our advertising agent. · Tim EDITOR. HONORARY OFFICERS Honorary President: H. S. Southam Honorary Vice-Presidents: ]. A. Wilson ]. A. O'Brien Norman Smith Graham Towers EXECUTIVE President and Editor: C. _E. Mortureux First Vice-President: Second Vice-President: Herbert Marshall Sigurd Lockeberg Directors: Geo. Britain ]. C. Leslie Hubert Douglas ]. Olivier ]. P. Taylor Wm. Irving F. Richardson Chairman, Ladies' Committee: Mrs. Sylvain Bernier H on. Secretary: Legal Adviser: · ]as. S. Patrick, A. George McHugh 88 Third Ave. Auditors: Treasurer: A. D. Watson Sylvain Bernier F. L. Price 7a~hion .$1/t; hail~ ~flttd to Afa'tphy·~

T Murphy- Gamble's - the most exciting ski togs that A ever took to the trails ! They're smooth as ski wax, func­ tional as flying suits, and such fun to wear. Sketched is a new Jacket in weatherproof Gatineau Gabar­ dine, with parka. At 11.95. The Instructor-style Ski Slacks are in windproof gabardine. At ... 10.95 Second Floor Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 3 · The Ottawa Ski Club The Ottawa Ski Club maintains four spacious camps, placed at strategic points in the Gatineau hills, each of sufficient capacity to accommodate hundreds of skiers, four hundred acres of rolling and mountainous land, privately owned, and over sixty miles of trails, connecting the various camps and extending from the Western Lodge, the most remote point of the system, to the gates of the Capital, over some of the best skiing grounds in Eastern Canada. The Dome Hill Lodge, in charge of a caretaker on week-ends stands at the foot of the highest hill in the immediate vicinity of the City, 20 miles from the terminus of the Wrightville car line, over a rolling and pleasant trail. Hundreds of skiers go to the Dome Hill Lodge every Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Join the crowd and share in their happiness ! There are sixty acres of ski-ing grounds around the Lodge over which the Club has exclusive rights. Instruction classes in ski technique are held there every Saturday. The Camp Fortune Lodge, the headquarters of the Ottawa Ski Club, amidst three hundreds acres of pine land owned by the Club, may be reached in from one to two hours by a number of magnificent trails, starting from Kingsmere, Old Chelsea or Dunlop's farm on the Meach Lake road, all of great scenic value and affording splendid skiing. There is a resident caretaker at Camp Fortune, and parties will find the fires lit any day of the season. You will have .the fun of cooking your own meals on one of the sixteen stoves in the lodge. There is also a well managed cafeteria for those who do not care to bring their own food. The Western Lodge, built on a look-out justly famous in the Gatineau country and from which the broad Ottawa Valley stands revealed on a distance of over thirty miles, is three milea west of Camp Fortune and may be reached by a number of trails from the camp. The Pink Lake Lodge, a stop over on the famous ten mile des­ cent from Camp Fortune to Ottawa, is also on Club grounds. The right to use 10\lges is reserved exclusively for the members of the Ottawa Ski Club, wearing the badge of the current year; guests are admitted only on week-days, and only when accompanied by members; week-end guests visiting the lodges on Saturday or Sunday must pay one dollar, which however is refunded on the mem­ bership fee if the visitors join the Club within two weeks. Join the Ottawa Ski Club, and all the privileges are yours. Fill in an applicatiop. form and forward it with the amount of the fees to "The Secretary, Ottawa Ski Club, McGiffin's, 80 Sparks St." Ap­ plication forms may be obtained at McGiffin's or from the Secretary James S. Patrick, 88 Third Avenue. Fees-Senior, $5.00; Lady, $3.00; Intermediate (14 to 17 years) $2.00; Junior (under 14) $1.00; Married couples, $6.00; Non­ resident, $2 .00.

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ENJOY THE DEVLIN CONVENIENCE CHARGE OFA- ACCOUNT Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 7 Had Champlain climbed over Park and Game Sanctuary, from the top, he would have seen an which hunters and motor cars are endless series of hills and pla­ to be banned, while nature lovers, teaux dotted with lakes here and hikers and skiers are welcome. there, extending to the Gatineau river and far beyond the river, The skiers did not wait to be to the district north of Montreal, invited to invade this territory. where the same hills are called Their tracks were first seen in "Laurentian". Geographically the early years of this century, speaking, the Laurentian country around Fairy Lake at first and extends from the. bleak shores of further afield every year. They Lake Superior to the snowy never extended very far, however, wastes of Labrador, but we have because the whole country was been accustomed to calling our still a wilderness and afforded part "the Gatineau hills" while limited opportunities for shelter, Montrealers call theirs "the but they became much more nu­ Laurentian hills". It is the same merous after the first World War, thing under a different name. when organized attempts at im­ provement were made by the ski To be appraised at its real clubs of the Capital, by cutting value, this "fascheux" country trails and building shelters. : needs to be seen through skiers' eyes, not the eyes of farmers or Hills are found around every prospectors. The farmers do not corner of this tract of land, espe­ wax fat on this yellow soil, and cially north of Kingsmere. They the prospectors are still waiting are not perhaps of Alpine propor­ to strike gold; but the skiers tions; few of them reach 1200 found from the start what they feet above sea level, but as the wanted - an endless variety of level of the Ottawa river, at the steep slopes and many trees to foot of the locks in Ottawa is shelter them from the wind. only 130 feet above sea level and So~etimes they have wished that the surrounding plain not much the hills were a bit higher, the higher, the drop is quite percepti­ slopes longer and the trees a bit ble. Many miles of trails leading fewer, but if they were given a to these hills and lodges have chance to rebuild the country, it been cut, some borrowing parts is very doubtful that they would of the old bush roads, others make it different. Not a perfect hewn out of the bush. A de­ ski paradise perhaps, but quite scription of them will be found in good enough as it is. this booklet. The part of the Gatineau And so that "pays fascheux", country with which we are more that rough and unpromising land, particularly concerned is that hidden behind that rocky ridge extending from Fairy Lake in that Champlain eyed with sus­ the south to Meach Lake in the picion in 1613 has become one north, and between Ironside and of our best assets - a land for Breckenridge from east to west. recreation and relaxation, where Twenty thousand acres of this young and old people in ever in­ land have recently been taken creasing numbers learn to enjoy over by the Federal District Com­ nature and practice the simple mission and set up as a National life. 8 Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 The Ridge Road

The old Ridge road, long of clearings remained along the known as the Mountain road by road, and are still known under hunters and bushmen, traverses the names of the men who cut the mountain from Kingsmere to them out of the bush. After fifty Meach Lake, in a general south­ years of neglect the road could east to north-west direction. still be made out under a thick The history of this path is tangle of barberry bushes, shrubs interesting. Originally a deer and fallen trees. Some parts be­ trail, like many self-respecting tween Kingsmere and Keogan's avenues of traffic, it became a clearing, being used at times for busy highway over three quarters hauling logs and cord wood by of century ago, at a time when the farmers of the valley, were Sparks Street itself, in Bytown, always kept fairly clear; the first was barely emerging out of the ski tracks began to appear there bush. A small colony of Irish in the early years of the century, families, sixteen in all, freshly and became quite numerous when arrived from the "old sod" settled the Ottawa Ski Club built the in these hills, and cheerfully set first camp in these hills in 1920. to the task of clearing land that The road was never very popular should never have been cleared as a ski trail however, on account and removing stones that should of the many ruts and other un­ never have been removed because sightly and cumbersome indica­ they made up practically nine tions of horse and sleigh traffic tenths of the soil and kept crop­ which marred its surface. To-day, ping out as fast as they were recleaned, bridged, and cordu­ piled up. The new settlers did royed over the wet spots, dotted not stay very many years, and with sign posts by the Federal probably would never have stayed District Commission, no longer at all had they not been light marred by ruts, the road in its hearted sons and daughters of new garb strongly appeals to Ireland. It is said they made a skiers and hikers alike. fair brand of Irish whisky with A splendid path for hiking or the potatoes grown on this yellow horse riding in th~ fall, meander­ soil, and very good gin with the ing as it does through scattered juniper berries harvested in the remnants of the virgin forest, mountain, and that may have cheerful groves of pines, clumps been one of the reasons why they of junipers and sunny clearings, were loth to leave these remote or along swift running creeks and hills. They grew tired, however, deep gullys, the Ridge road is of scratching the barren soil; one being used as such by an ever by one they vacated their little increasing number of young peo­ clearings, their log shacks and ple. A bit tame perhaps as a ski the mountain, and the bush re­ trail, and yet very pleasant with gained possession of their farms its gentle undulations, it appeals and of the road. to those who want a safe outing, Not entirely, however; no path a care-free journey through en­ trodden by man or beast ever chanting woodland, rather than disappears completely; vestiges the thriils and dangers of speed. Aristocrats of the ski trails are these swank and all but hermit­ cally sealed from cold ensembles, from the Sports Chalet at Laura Thomas.

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151 SPARKS STREET 2-1717 10 Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 No mile-a-minute hill will be here that, before Keogan's found here, save perhaps at the clearing is reached, all trails far end, near Meach Lake, but opening on the left lead towards there are slopes all round, on Kingsmere, whereas all trails on both sides of the ridge, within a the right lead to the Valley of short distance from it. As an Camp Fortune. avenue of access to the main ski Two hundred yards after pass­ trails which it intersects, the ing George's trail, to the right, Ridge road is highly useful. is Fortune lane, a good, speedy, The Ridge road may be picked half-mile descent, with twists up at Kingsmere, from the pic­ and turns that will gladden the nic grounds of the Federal Dis­ heart of any slalomer, leading trict Commission, or from the to the door of Camp Fortune Canyon trail, running parallel to Lodge. If you decide to leave it and only a short distance from the Ridge here and tackle the it, oetween Kingsmere Heights Lane, watch your step, as a and the Top of the World. There steady stream of hikers, bound is a bit of a fairly steep hill at for George's trail, climbs up the beginning · known as Mur­ this way, especially in the early phy's, because one William Mur­ part of the afternoon, and colli­ phy once lived at the foot, and sions have been known to occur, another bit, quite steep and over with painful results. The usual half a mile long, at the Meach warning is "Track". Don't spare Lake end, known as McCloskey's, your voice, and be ready to because one McClosky lived check. The turns are sharp and at the top. McCloskey's house the lane is narrow. and log barns (now Hamble­ Lahey's clearing, on the right, ton's) are still standing at the adorned with a low straggling, far end of a big sixty-acre tumble-down shack, one quarter clearing. Throughout the clearing mile past the top of the Lane, is are endless piles of boulders the next landmark. The Log bearing mute evidence to the Cabin trail, a beautiful and work done by · this energetic smooth little trail, quite safe, settler, who, it is said, managed leading to Camp Fortune, starts to raise sixteen children on this here. Try it some day. Next stony patch of yellow land. Be­ comes. a fairly steep hill, not tween these two hills, from Watts­ long, with a creek at the foot, ford golf links at Kingsmere to and about a half mile farther on, the shores of Meach Lake, the the intersection of the liighland distance is about seven miles. trail (left) going Kingsmere Not far from the top of Mur­ way. Opposite, on the right phy's hill, at the King5mere end hand side of the road, is , Jour­ of the road, is an opening leading ney's End, the return end of the into the Canyon trail, only a far famed "Merry-Go-Round" couple hundred feet away (see trail. A short climb up Journey's marker). A mile or so farther on End will take you to the top of is the beginning of George's two magnificent wooded hills, trail (to the left) leading to with wide open slopes, both lead­ Kingsmere Lake, and from· there ing to the Camp: Traveler's Hill on to Pink Lake and Wright­ (straight on) and Bonnie Brae ville. It might as well be noted (to the right). At the top of Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 ll

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CHALET CABLE ...... 3.~9 are, or follvw the path along KANDAHAR MICRO .... 6.95 set the lake, easterly. The Lodge is half a mile straight east from the lake. POLES This way of getting to Camp TONKIN ...... 0.95 up Fortune,-Ridge road, Keogan's, STEEL ...... -.. 4.50 up Fortune Lake - is a bit round SKI BOOTS ...... 4.95 up about, four miles or so, but it REPAffiS TO ALL SKIS makes a splendid outing. It will be used by people who are out Dial 2-3781 for fresh air, rather than thrills, and by novices desiring to limber Now Located at up and get their balance before 322 SPARKS ST. tackling steep descents. Comer of Lyon St. From Keogan's to Jeff's clear­ Opposite Pinks Garage ing - the next landmark on the Ridge road - is a long but in- Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 13 teresting mile, with a swift run- --= RITT'S LIMITED=­ ning brook against a high rocky ledge on the right and a thick spruce bush on the left. Then comes a steep gully and at the top of the gully, Jeff's clearing, now pretty well overgrown. Just about here the road again inter­ sects the Merry-Go-Round trail, the trees of which are marked with red enamel paint - a me­ thod of marking by the way that will be used before long for all the trails of the Ottawa Ski Club. A few hundred yards further comes Vipond's clearing, on the left, and the " Sentier Cham­ plain", leading to the famous Crilly's hill, one of the best in the mountain, a series of long, fast and ever-faster slopes, over a mile long, ending at Crilly's farm on the Mountain Road. The Night Riders who have explored this country claim that a course can be found here for a down-hill race that will dwarf all others. To take the hill, turn left after going for a few hundred yards almost straight west of the two shacks standing in the clearing. SKI SLACXS The sentier Champlain, a new Downhill and gaba~dine slacks, lined, creation of the F.D.C., still in Price, per pair ...... 5.98 the making, turns to the right, some distance past the shacks, SKI SHIRTS and goes along the crest of the Fine wool. in beautiful shades. - hill toward Young's Corner on All sizes ...... 1.98 the Mountain road. It is an at­ SKI JACKETS tractive scenic trail, with broad Lined and unlined storm cloth, gab­ vistas on the Ottawa Valley. Its ardine and padded cloth. Long skiing poosibilities are still un­ jacket styles with pockets and zip- explored. pers ...... 6.95 to 14.95 On the right of the road, al­ SWEATERS most opposite · the sen tier Cham­ All wool sweaters in every wanted plain, is the old Alexander's trail, shade, style and size. going to the eastern end of Meach Lake. Fair slopes are found here but they are rather shrubby. The Western trail crosses the RITT' S LIMITED Ridge road a long bit further 97-101 Rideau St. Ouawa on. It will take you by series of 14 Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943

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207 SPARKS STREET DIAL 3-3574 swift slopes to the Western Lodge you in a couple of minutes of of the Ottawa Ski Club, standing good and swift going on the sho­ on a lookout which is perhaps res of Meach Lake. You are unrivalled in the Gatineau hills. about five miles from Old Chel­ sea here, Continuing on the Ridge road, and about the same distance the next landmark is the big from Burnet's Station on sixty-acre McCloskey's clearing, the C.P.R., across the lake. at the far end of which, over the The other exit is the Mac­ hill, still stand the house and log Donald's road, going straight barns of the original settler. We north from the house, then turn­ are now at the Great Divide ; ing right and ending about two­ from there on the whole country thirds of the way down McClos­ slopes towards Meach Lake. key's hill. It is a bit longer, not There are two roads leading out so steep, but the slopes are ex­ of McCloskey's, both very good. tremely enjoyable. - The whole The first, straight east from the country facing Meach Lake is house, runs on the flat for half a still to a large extent "terra in­ mile or ·so, then suddenly drops cognita" but the possibilities for sharply and turns north by a new slopes are of the best. right angle turn (i bet you won't make it), into the great Mc­ Closkey's hill, which should land Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 15 Camp Fortune Ways oj access -Hills and Trails JUNE'S The Valley of Camp Fortune, !Beauty ~afon at the extremity of which sits the lodge of that name, on a pleasant knoll surrounded on two sides by swift flowing creeks and adorned with groves of pines and birches, runs from east to west between two high ridges, rising here and there, from 300 to 500 feet above the floor of the valley. Specialty This ridge is open at the east end, where the old Dunlop road, PERMANENT running north and south, provides WAVE an easy means of access with little climbing (see page 48). There is sufficient slope on the road however to provide a ·plea­ sant run down to Dunlop's park­ PHONE 2-4889 ing lot. 99 RIDEAU STREET Skiers coming from any other point but Dunlop's must climb to the top of the ridge, from which they have the choice of a dozen or so of steep hills and trails leading down to the valley and the lodge. It will be seen from the above that there are two ways of getting into Camp Fortune: one, a strenuous one, over the ridge from Old Chelsea or Kingsmere; the other one, an easy one, by the Dunlop's open­ ing. Various circumstance;; will dic­ tate the skiers' choic~. Those escorting a large party and car­ will of rying a heavy food pack TRADE MARK REGISTERED course choose Dunlop's and take their pick of hills after .leaving their load at the lodge. Climbing or shooting a hill with a heavy DELICIOUS and pack is no fun. The comparative ease of the return trip to Dun­ lop's parking lot by any one of REFRESHING the half dozen trails available, compared with the long grind up the Canyon, is another factor. 16 Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 Just push , off with the poles and you are there ! This of course is a minor consideration for keen young skiers who would not want t;.\r{ o cQJJ.e to miss the slide from Kingsmere Heights even if they had to climb Mount Everest for it. It must be acknowledged however that the ridge does look high after a strenuous day around Camp Fortune, and Dunlop's easy down grade is much more inviting than the long and stiff ramps of the Canyon. A thing that has prevented many from coming to Dunlop's in the past is the siz;! of the parking lot there. Now that this lot is going to be enlarged to provide accommodation for 300 cars instead of 7 5, it is probable that the number of Dunlop com­ mutors will greatly increase. Some of these strenuous "over the ridge" trails are not quite so strenuous as others however. There are degrees in strenuous­ ness. Longest and steepest is the Canyon trail taken from the start, near the village of Old Chelsea (see page 20) , but a good mile may be cut off fr~m the Canyon by taking it from Young's parking lot, on the Kingsmere road (Penguin trail) for every member and yet another mile by cutting into it from Kingsmere. One of the family thing in favour of the "long" Canyon is that it is well shel­ tered from the start whereas the SHOP Penguin and Kingsmere branches are open and windswept - a con­ sideration that has a good deal AND of importance on a cold, windy, 10 below zero day. Another ob­ SAVE jection is that all this saving in ski mileage is accomplished at the expense of gas and oil while at L A R 0 C Q U E S the skis are doing nothing. Up the Kingsmere road is a long steep climb for motor cars. Now .Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 17

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Lastly you may fol­ Another way - and a very low the Canyon trail to the bit­ radical one - to save gas, is to ter end, that is, to the Top of take the train to Tenaga. The dis­ the World, and tumble down into tance ·from Tenaga to Dunlop's, the Drop of the Canyon - a across bush and plain, can be splendid descent in four slopes, covered in about l;.i hour by an half a mile long. You will pick average skier. The Tenaga trail yourself up at the docir of the has been blazed; the Kirk's Ferry lodge. one will soon be. The number of From the Ridge road, which people coming this way will de­ runs parallel to the Canyon be­ pend on the adequacy or inade­ tween Kingsmere Heights and quacy of the bus service supplied Pine Grove and may be entered by the Gatineau Bus Company by a little lane opening just a to Old Chelsea or Kingsmere. few feet after Kingsmere Heights, The transit controller may have several very good slopes leading something to say about .this, al­ into Fortune valley may be though it is hoped that a fair picked up - Fortune Lane, about service may be maintained. a mile from the start, a winding, From the Canyon trail, various tricky, half mile trail; the Log avenues lead down to Fortune Cabin trail, starting from an old Valley, some direct and very log shack a few hundred yards steep, others not so direct and after the Fortune Lane inter­ not so steep and others again section - an extremely pleasant wandering over quite an extent and safe descent, passing through of territory. The Sky Line trail, wide woodland slopes, where one the first intersection met with at may turn to one's heart contents; the top of Kingsmere Heights, is Bonny Brae and Traveler's hills, an example of the latter; this is reached from Journey's End, a a creation of the Federal District quarter mile beyond the log Commission, better for hiking cabin, two splendid hills, for good than skiing, but still very plea­ skiers. All these trails are men­ sant, and generally offering fresh tioned in the description of the snow conditions because it is Ridge road (see page 8) . Tho_se little travelled. It is about three for whom high speed is not an miles long. Next comes Little essential part of the pleasure of Switzerland, an excellent Al ski skiing and who are merely after trail, packed with thrills (see the thrills of fresh air and sun- Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 19 shine may continue on the Ridge as far as Koegan's clearing, turn to the right there, and to the' right again at Lake Fortune. They will cover about four miles of fairly flat, safe but interesting country. SKI OUTFITS Seen from the floor of Fortune valley, the hills may be listed as for the FAMILY follows:- South of Fortune creek, from east to west: Sigurd's Jumping hill, half a mile from the camp, a hill good for a 200 feet jump when it is completed; Joe Morin's Slalom hill, with ski tow; George Brittain's Morning After; the Drop of the Canyon; Fortune Lane; the Practice grounds or Nursery slopes; Bon­ ny Brae; Traveler's or Mile a 129-137 Minute. The last five end at the door of the lodge. North of the RIDEAU ST. creek are the Great Divide, Mor­ tureux hill, and on the reverse side of the slope, looking over the Meach Lake road the Cork­ screw, going left to Lake Fortune, the great Cote du Nord going to Dunlop's, one mile long with the Sporting Goods Lost ravine extension; Casse-cou (unfinished) . from your hardware store The following trails start from Camp Fortune; Pink Lake trail S K I S (up Fortune Lane) to Pink Lake · and Wrightville; Highland trail SKI BOOTS, POLES to Kingsmere; Merry-Go-Round; SKATES and BOOTS Western trail (to Western Lod­ ge); Lake trail (to Fortune lake HOCKEY STICKS and Dunlop's) starting from the foot of the Great Divide, across the creek; Home Run (to Dun­ lop's) from the foot of Mortu­ reux's hill, north of the creek; Sunrise (to Dunlop's) starting W. · A. RANKIN half a mile from the Lodge, where LIMITED Dunlop's turns sharply left. Skiers returning to Dunlop's 410-416 BANK ST. have therefore the choice of a number of trails, all down hill. Dial 2-4241 . 20 Ottawa Ski Club Guide, . 1943 The Canyon Trail The Canyon trail starts from a wide, but sheltered plateau the Meach Lake road a short and an equally long ascent up distance up from the Chelsea ano.ther bill called "Excelsior". brook, and rolls pleasantly west­ There the trail loses itself in a ward through cheerful pine coun­ thick green bush, wandering with try, striking the Chelsea ridge, a many detours towards the north forbidding looking barrier, sud­ star, comes to light again in a denly rising across the land, one small clearing, climbs up another mile from the start. For some hill, the last one of the series, reason that has never been quite proudly struts for a bit over the understood, it climbs this ridge Top of the World, and then straight up instead -of trying to tumbles headlong into the Valley circle around it, continues climb­ of Camp Fortune by a series of ing up a steep, long and winding fast ap.d ever faster slopes in­ path, beyond the ridge, always cluded under the name of. the in the direction of Kingsmere, "Drop of the Canyon". The and painfully herringbones its opening of the drop has been way up to the very top of Bald called the "Jaws of the Canyon". hill from which one half of the The "up" trip, from Chelsea to world suddenly comes into view. Fortune, includes a mile and a The other half is revealed from half of rolling land, a mile and Kingsmere Heights, which is a half of straight climbing reached after a long tramp over and a half mile of tumbling -

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147 RIDEAU STREET Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 23 Many other trails may be traverses a deep ravine where a picked up along the course of the trickle of water in winter be­ Canyon: ( 1) a:t tlle foot of Ex­ comes a raging torrent in the celsior, the Penguin trail, coming spring; this gully baffled for a from Y01,mg's farm. A good long time the science of the en­ afternoon trip may be enjoyed gineers of the Club, successive by going up the Canyon, switch­ bridges being swept away by ing over to the Penguin, and re­ high waters. The trail has been turning by the Kingsmere road; named after this miniature can­ ( 2) the Sky-Line, at Kingsmere yon. The present bridge, laid by · Heights, a highly scenic three Captain T. ]. Morin, the maker mile long F.D.C. trail, splendid of the trail, should last for a for hiking but not bad at all ·for century and a bit. skiing; ( 3) A short lane on the left, giving access to the Ridge The Canyon trail did not road; ( 4) the Little Switzer­ know for a long time whether it land, which is described else­ was going or coming, or even It was meant where; ( 5) Pleasant Valley or where it was going. "Cherchez la femme" (page 43), at first as an exit from Camp who a good and safe alternative when Fortune, to enable skiers, those the drop of the Canyon is icy came from Kirk's Ferry in by and its "jaws" look sinister; (6) days, to get quickly home Gatineau the Slalom, leading to the great Pink Lake. When the give a Joe Morin's Slalom hill; (7) the Bus Company started to Morning after, leading to the regular service to Old Chelsea, from famed hill of that name, a twin the trail was switched over Chel­ sister of the Slalom and a creation Kingsmere Heights to Old found of George Brittain. All these sea. It seems now to have its real purpose. A noble trail, trails are well marked. that will last as long as skiing Near Hospital Corner, down in endures in the Gatineau hills. the Drop of the Canyon, the trail

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Years ago before the roads the Canyon taken at Old Chel- were open to motor cars or buses, sea. . skiers took the train to Tenaga The Tenaga trail has been or Kirk's Ferry and came on to blazed from end to end by the Camp Fortune, a thousand strong, Night Riders, under the leader­ by one or the other of three ship of Bill Irving, and is now trails: Tenaga, McAllister's or open to traffic. An attempt will Cooper's, the last two · starting be made to reopen McAllister's for Kirk's Ferry. Transporta­ and Cooper's. In ·the meantime, tion restrictions may compel if no bus is available on Sunday many of us to revert to the same morning, don't hesitate. Take course. This involves . no great the train to Tenaga. The trail is hardship, as the above trails are well sheltered, very pleasant, and not much longer, if any, than can be covered in about 1~ hour. 24 , Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 BY.SHE'S The Sport Centre ~ COMPLETE S K I STOCKS "~ RENTALS and REPAffiS 223 BANK STREET "'>- PHONE 2-2464

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The viliage of Old Chelsea, pany which charged fifteen cents nestling at the foot of the Gati­ more for this extra short mile; neau hills, was for a long time the in fact it was no gain· at all for terminus of wheeled vehicles the skiers who had almost the after the latter made their ap­ same distance to cover to get to pearance on the Gatineau roads the foot of Excelsior h!ll, there in winter-,-the end of the ruts, so to pick up the Canyon trail, than to speak. There were sleigh ruts if they had started from Old further on of course, but these Chelsea, but they could not be were insignificant scratches in convinced of that and they called comparison to the deep, cave like on the Ottawa Ski Club to open tracks left by buses and motor a way through the maze of wire cars. When the municipal snow fences and ravines that stood be­ plough, equipped with a new tween them and their objective. engine, managed to crawl up to This new trail was cut in short Kingsmere, buses and cars fol­ order by the Company of the named the lowed in its wake1 cautiously at Night Riders and was first, going no farther than Penguin. Young's place, and not even that And thereby hangs a tale: Late far when the going ·was bad. It in the afternoon of a cold, win­ was not a very great gain, ex­ ter day, just as the .sun was cept perhaps for the bus com- sinking in a sea of gold . and red 32 Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 . behind King's mountain, a gang they only walk, and rather slow­ of Night Riders led by their ly at that. How could one of the Captain Joe Morin, was busy tribe possibly tramp all the putting the finishing touches on way from the Polar regions to the new trail and snipping the Camp Fortune? The thing was last barbed wire when they heard preposterous. To that, the sup­ a noise like the flapping of wings porters of the Penguin theory in a deep ravine near by. Joe replied that this particular bird went over to investigate and might have been· a champion found a rather large, strange look­ walker. Anyway, the condition ing bird floundering helplessly in of extreme weakness in which it the snow. He picked it up ten­ was found clearly showed that it derly, put it in his haversack, and had come a very long way. Pos­ brought it to the dormitory of sibly ii: was brought on the wings the old Camp Fortune Lodge of a storm. Stranger things than where the bird quickly revived that have happened. Perhaps also under the influence of warmth penguins had been creeping and good food. It was at once closer to us with the new ice age identified as a penguin by C. that was coming. Anyhow, if it E. Mortureux who had seen a was not a penguin, it was up to few penguins in zoos, many pictu­ the other chaps to prove it. res of them in books and had The other chaps took up the read a ·lot about their habits. challenge. They refused to be The bird stood up exactly like a taken in by this impersonator, penguin, making a neat little as they called it, who posed as a bow whenever any one entered penguin. They filled up a sleigh the dormitory, uttering an in­ load with learned and be-specta­ cessant prattle that no one could cled ornithologists, and another understand, not even the Night one with all available treatises on Riders, accustomed though they birds, including the works of were to the meaning of strange Audubon, and the little caravan sounds in the bush. All these are set out for Camp Fortune on a clear cut characteristics of the bright winter day. Whether the Penguin family, the standing up feathered visitor had wind of habit, like a man, the affability their coming and did not want and civility and the inarticulate, its identity revealed, whether it unintelligible language. The bird just happened that it did not was a penguin, there could not want to trespass any longer on be a doubt of that, and he was the hospitality of Camp Fortune, accepted and adopted as such by no one ever knew, but just as the the Company of the Night Riders steps of the winding stairway with whom it made fast friends. leading to the dormitory were Not so by the world at large, groaning under the weight of the however. The news that a pen­ ponderous !;icientists, the bird guin had been found in the wild­ jumped on the sill of erness of the Gatineau hills met an open with general skepticism, and a window, flew high into the sky violent controversy raged for a with powerful strokes of its short while. Penguins live in the wings, soared for a while, orient­ Antarctic circle, said doubting ing itself, and then flew straight Thomases; they cannot fly, towards the great northland. It Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 33

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19 WILTON Crescent Dial 4-7766 Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 35 The Western Trail Up the first step of Traveler's the same men when a bottomless hill, straight west of the Camp pit, towards which that pleasant Fortune Lodge, is the opening of and innocent run was heading, the Western trail, a path little is seen just on the other side of used as yet but discovered by an the lodge; the fourth, a feeling increasing number of skiers every of amazement at the radiant view winter. A quiet, restful trail, of the Ottawa Valley smiling in devoid of traps and pitfalls, very the noon-day sun, a thousand feet different in that respect from the below. Merry-Go-Round with its wicked For the scene that suddenly dippers. Flowing evenly, like a unfolds before the gaze of the gentle stream, through thickly traveller, after this four mile wooded lands, the Western Trail trip through a dark bush, is truly breathes peace and security over an entrancing and majestic one. its entire course, save perhaps at The great Ottawa river, nearly the beginning which is a bit two miles wide at that spot is choppy, but not dangerously so, exposed to the view, stretching or at about a mile from the start westward to the limits of the where a crooked ravine --:- the horizon, and appearing so near Gulch, provides a l~ttle jarring that one would almost think it note, of short duration, and at is possible to walk across and the end where a yery long and get a dipper of water for the swift descent leading to the tea. Not quite so near, however; ragged edge of a cliff would hurl there are at least three good the skier into eternity if it were miles of solid farm land between not for an obstacle barring the the shores of the river and the way "fort a: propos" as the foot of the cliff. French say. This obstacle is the Western lodge, the aim and ob­ There are quite a few points ject of the Western trail. along the long ridge from Kings­ mere to Meach Lake where a Skiers following this path for glimpse of the Ottawa Valley the first time experience a num­ may be obtained but nowhere ber of new sensations. The first, perhaps it is so soul satisfying, as I said, is one of peace, quiet as from that old look-out which and contentment. This trail is said to be unrivalled in the breeds happiness and serenity, whole Gatineau Land - the old and I think it should have been McOiosky's look-out, now better called the "Restful trail" or some known perhaps as the Western such name conveying the im­ look-out. pression of peace and content. The second, when the dark Never crowded, the lodge is as structure of the lodge suddenly peaceful as the trail, and solid looms up across the path, is one comfort can be found there - of indignation at the thoughtless­ provided one has had the precau­ ness of men who put it there and tion of bringing needed supplies, spoiled such a beautiful run by as there is no cafeteria. so doing; the third, of deep gra­ This lodge has an interesting titude for the thoughtfulness of history. It stood for a number 36 Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 of years on the East shore of the Lodge-- another case of East Gatineau river, opposite Tenaga, meeting West. where it had been set up at the The trail also had its tribula­ request of a couple dozen or so tions. Originally laid by Herbert of highly select members who Marshall, it was taken over and wanted to get . away from the relaid by Trail-master Joe Mo­ madding crowd and enjoy more rin who cut it wide - so wide privacy. The main argument that a claim for $1500 damage advanced however was that it with threats of a law suit came would divert the traffic away Jrom one of the bush owners. from Camp Fortune and avoid This was settled with a compen­ the necessity of adding a new sation of $50, but the ink on the wing to a building that had too agreement was hardly dry when many wings already. It would be another men appeared, claiming used also as a half way stop by to be the rightful bush owner, long distance skiers going from the other one having made a mis­ Wakefield to Ottawa along the take in his blazes. He was told shores of the Gatineau river. to have the place resurveyed at Money being only a secondary his own expense and nothing consideration in those days of more was heard about this second prosperity, the lodge was built, claim. · and widely advertised. None of I have said that the length of the things that · were expected the Western trail was four miles. happened. The select people did Perhaps it is not quite that. not come, the long distance skiers Racers claim to have covered it took to slaloming, and the few in "about" thirty minutes, but who ventured across the Gati­ racers develop amazing speed neau river found the place so when they time themselves, by private, so lonely, that they re­ their own watches. From an hour ti:aced their tracks in all haste and a quarter to an hour and a to join the gay throng at Camp half is very fair going. The re­ Fortune. When the number of turn trip may be made by the visitors over a week-end dwindled Ridge road for a change - or to a corporal's guard, it was de­ if one feels extremely energetic, cided to move the building over by McClosky's or MacDonald's to a place where there would be hill and over the Meach Lake no river to cross and the East road to Old Chelsea (see article side Lodge became the Western on Ridge road, page 8).

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************************************************** 38 Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 On to Wrightville by George's, Mica Mine and Pink- Lake trails What shall it be to-day- Old We might continue on the ridge Chelsea or Wrightville? The to Kingsmere but George's is risk of an interminable wait for more direct and better fun. a bus; or the possibility of a After meandering a quarter of quick get-away by the street car ? a mile or so on George's with­ The snow is good, the day is still out seeirig or feeling anything young and the trail is calling. much to write home about, you Let us make Wrightville. It looks will be wondering perhaps why a bit far on the map but they say the man who made it (Georges the whole country tumbles that Audette) incurred public reproba­ way. Let us see if we can tumble tion. George's was the first at­ along with it. tempt to get away from the flat Here is your trip in a nut shell: bush roads, and as it moved Up Fortune lane, to pick up swiftly amid big trees, over a George's trail on the Ridge road, width of all of two feet, and some­ down George's to Kingsmere, times not that much, it created over the lake and through Prime quite a sensation among people Minister Mackenzie King's broad who for years had been accus­ acres, down the Mica Mine trail tomed to crawl over ruts at a to the Pink Lake Lodge, along snail's pace, a sensation which the Pink Lake trail to Wright- became painful when they rubbed ville. - Nine miles, possibly ten. up against trees. The trees are gone, and George's is wider than Fortune lane, as every one it was by a few inches, but it is knows or should know, is the not quite so tame as you think. continuation southward of the Wait till it opens up; it will old Dunlop road. Many people make you sit up - or sit down. make a mistake here and take It is a swift bumpy, twisty Bonny Brae, going to the Merry­ cheery little trail - Watch for Go-Round. The lane is left of the last bit: the Sea of Bumps, Bonny Brae. If faces the sun at it will tax all your balancing skill the noon hour (At 1 p.m. D.S.T: if a few hundred people have in winter the sun is almost gone ahead of you and left a straight south). The lane climbs hard track. Many skis and a few a bit but pleasantly so. Watch bones have .been broken there. for would be acrobats coming If you don't like George's, down and howling "Track ! ", but well, don't stay on it. No offence look out especially for the dumb will be taken. You may leave it ones who spring suddenly from. for the Highland Fling ·at the nowhere, phantom like. They first sharp turn to the left. If are the more dangerous of the you are bump shy, or allergic to two. This trail was reserved for bumps · as one would say to-day, the up traffic at one· time, and I turn right at the top of the "Sea think it should be still. of Bumps" and you will hit the We are now safe on the Ridge bottom of Highland Fling, all road. A turn to the left, going speed cut off - a good thing to up, and we are at the beginning know when things are moving a of George's, opening on the right. bit too fast, and one is getting Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 39 shaky. You may again, if you pines, stands the Pink Lake still have all your wits about you, Lodge, where we may sit down leave George's a bit further down a bit, enjoy . a rest and a cup of .for Grime's hill, a long, crooked, tea, and swap experiences with very fast hill which you had bet­ fellow skiers. You will hear har­ ter leave alone if you cannot rowing tales here and wonder check or turn properly. how you lived through it all your· self. Cheer up, there is more Whatever you do, you will, in to come. We are only half way on short order, hit the shores of the our journey. little lake of Kingsmere, asleep under its mantle of ice, and after There is at least one good hill crossing the lake and climbing around Pink Lake on which we the ridge, come to Prime Minister may be tempted to try our l.uck ;· Mackenzie King's broad acres. this being. done, we climb the There is a big gully here that little ridge, and find a long up will require careful negociating. and down plateau at the end of Ankies and knees have been which we re-enter the bush. known to get twisted at the bot­ Watch your step . . . I never can tom, where the turn is. Check ! quite remember what happens Now comes the best part of here; all I know for certain is the journey - the long, smooth, that one suddenly finds oneself swift glide over the slopes of the in a. clearing, in front of a high Mica Mine trail, four of them in ridge, after a mad descent through fairly close succession. On a real a thousand trees and over a mil­ fast day, I honestly think this lion bumps. This is Birch Val­ part of the trail is packed with ley. We have covered over three more real enjoyment than any quarters of a mile, perhaps a other part of any other trail I mile, at the rate of an express have ever been over. Of course train. there is no chance for slaloming here; it is a trail, not a hill, but Well, that high ridge in front one can let go with full confi­ of us is there to be climbed, I dence, and one has a feel.ing of suppose, although it might be smoothness, of freedom, of exhila­ gone around. Let us climb it ration that is not found quite to and shoot down ·the reverse slope the same extent anywhere else, into Radmore's clearing. and I have always felt sorry for There is no use denying it, it people with motor cars who are is a bit flat here, but before long tied down at Kingsmere and will we again find up and down never know anything but jerky country, in the. bush, at the end slopes. of the clearing. There the trail Another small slope through goes along for a while in a jerky open country, alongside a small sort of way until it suddenly house advertising cheap meals breaks loose again, makes a swift for skiers, and we are at the right hand turn and lands, Hermit's road, which will hardly after a long, swift and bumpy be noticed as our speed will car­ descent, in the first cleared field ry us across it as well as across o'f Wrightville. This field slopes half the field beyond it. At the in the right direction and may end of that field, in a clump of be poled; so does the next, and 40 Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 the next again. Now we turn sharply left through a lane, A.A. A. climb a ridge at the end of the lane, go through a farm yar,d LASALLE INC. where the air is always fragrant with a pleasant smell of manure., cross a road and tackle the last OTTAWA'S field, also sloping towards the LEADING Mountain Road. Now we are on the road. See that street car BILLARD ACADEMY waiting over there ? A little swift poling and we will make it. How long did we take from Camp PHONE 3-0194 Fortune? Two hours and a half. Too fast. Let us try to make it 0. MARCOTTE, Manaqer in three hours next time.

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151 RIDEAU STREET PHONE 3-8407 Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 43 left leads to the Mile-a-minute or ridge to the valley of Camp For­ Travelers' ; you may take the tune. He kept his word; by dint first run of Bonnie Brae then of hard work and a lot of going strike off at the Practice hill; or around, the trail was laid and it you may continue on Bonnie was a godsend to many people Brae all the way. However, they. when the Canyon was icy and are equally good - "You pays too fast for safety. your money and takes · your Since a woman was the cause choice". of it, this trail should have been But the music has ceased, the named "Cherchez la femme" and merry-go-round has stopped and it would have been a howling here we are back where we success from the start. Rather started . . . foolishly however it was baptised How about dropping into the the "Easy way" and skiers lodge for a "quick one" --

CAMERA SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT ARE AVAILABLE AT GARLICK FILMS LIMITED CORNER OF DALY AVENUE AND NICHOLAS ST. 44 Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 The . Night Riders The Ancient and Honorable work, and they were kept busy Company of the Night Riders all day as well as part of the was founded in 1922 for the ex­ night. They became bridge build­ press purpose of cross-checking ers, trail cutters, bush whackers the slopes of the Drop of the in the fall, as well as bump tamers Candon on Saturday night, so that and cross-checkers in winter; the Sunday morning . crowds they acted as first aid men, as a might · have as good chance of guard of honour when the Gov­ standing up as those of the pre­ ernor General or some other vious day. The operation of cross high dignitary came to Camp checking, as every skier knows, Fortune. They became experts in consists in going up and down the handling of the machete, cross ways on skis, packing down the bush hook, the bush scythe, the fresh snow or obliterating old the axe, the shovel, the rake, and tracks, filling up the holes, level­ any tool that is required in trail ling the bumps, in short, leaving work. a smooth surface, on which skis It is said that one of the early can be easily handled. qualifications for admission to The founder of the Company, the Company was the ability to T. J. Morin, had figured that it jump, · turn and stop in front of would take sixteen men six hours the deep ravine that crosses the to do this work. Joe's experience foot of the Speedway near was based on army fatigue parties I{ospital Corner on the drop of where sixteen men are detailed the Canyon. This ravine, which to do the work of two. In less came to be known as the Canyon, than a couple hours the sixteen gave its name to the trail. For a men of the Company had the long time it was only covered by whole Canyon as smooth as silk a foot bridge hardly more than from top . to bottom, and were the width of a pair of skis. As looking for more worlds to con­ the speed at the bottom of the quer. This was not difficult Speedway is about 40 miles an to find. There were plenty other hour, this matter of stopping sud­ slopes in the neighborhood of the denly 'in front of a deep hole Lodge which required their at­ would naturally require a good tention, bumps that needed to be deal of nerve and considerable tamed everywhere, fallen trees skimanship. Some of the candi­ that had to be removed, courses dates did not make it on their that had to be prepared for com­ first attempt, but most of them petitions, etc. The moment the were retrieved almost intact from Company was created it became the depths of the Canyon. indispensable, and the Club The dormitory of the old Camp wondered how ft could have got Fortune Lodge was at first the along without it. The Night headquarters of the Company. Riders did work that only skiers Later on these separate bunk­ could do and that could not have houses were built to accommodate been done as well by any amount them; 'one of these lodges was of paid laborers. Very soon their donated by H. S. Southam, hono­ activities were extended to in­ rary President of the Ottawa Ski clude fall work as well as winter Club, one· by Frank Plant, ex- Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 45 Mayor of Ottawa, and the third Gordon Grant, Ken Meikle, Ted by Wm. Phillips then Minister of Crain, Elmer Cassel, Alex. Hus­ the United States to Canada and sey, Dalton ·Wood, John Buck, himself a keen skier. The Phil­ Fred Dixon, Bob Clifford, Har­ lips Lodge has since gone up into vey Clifford, John Clifford, Ken smoke, but it is hoped that it Thomas, F. D. Richardson, Wm. may soon be rebuilt. Irving, captain. The Night Riders have not al­ ways been as active as one might have 'Yished during the twenty odd years that have elapsed since The Dome Hill Trail their foundation. There were years when they were not in as You have missed your bus or good form as in others, when your train or perhaps there were they found it harder to come out . no buses or trains running to-day, of their warm bunk-house to · and you are standing there "all work on the trail, but on the dressed up and no place to go". whole their record has been very Well there are plenty of places good. It was not expected that where good skiing can be enjoyed they could carry on during the right near the city without going war, but under the energetic to the expense of chartering a leadership of their present Cap­ bus or train, and the best we tain, Bill Irving, the Night Riders could suggest is Dome Hill which of 1942-43 made up of boys ir. can be reached by street car and their 'teen age have done out­ on ski. There are also the slopes standing work, as good and per­ of Rockcliffe Park, of the Experi­ haps better than any of their mental Farm and Fairy Lake, adult predecessors. They have but so many go there that the been at it every week-end since the snow is generally very hard first red leaves appeared on the packed and not pleasant. Fresh maples and have rebuilt a num­ snow conditions will always be ber of bridges, levelled many found on the Dome hill trail. tricky and dangerous spots on The Wrightville car terminus the hills and trails, in addition to is the starting point of the Dome the regular and yearly work of hill trail. The lane leading to it cutting the shrubs. The present is just across the road (the Company includes the following: Mountain road) from the car Ronald Baillie, Fred. Foster, stop, going north. After leaving

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394 BANK ST. Phone 2-2601 Ottawa 48 Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 road - to the left of the Canyon trail. Once on this road you can- not fail to see the cabins already referred to. This trail wends its way gradu­ ally down the beautifully wooded valley in long "nursery slopes" and cuts into Bonnie Brae about a hundred yards from Camp For­ tune lodge. Beginners will find in it an easy and delightful trail and old timers will be glad to use it when the snow is hard and icy. fJhi1- The trail was made about three years ago by the boys who oc- cupied the cabins, but it is prac- tically unknown. Perhaps giving Q. f it a name will bring it to the '::::7. uicu attention of our members. Give it a trial - you'll like it.-J.S.P.

The Dunlop Road The old Dunlop road, the easy way in and out of Camp Fortune by reason of its gradual and gentle slopes, joins the Meach Lake road exactly 2Yz miles from Old Chelsea, at a sign put up by the Federal District Commission. Long travelled by the Dunlop family whose house and barns adorned the knoll of Camp For­ tune some fifty years ago, it had been, by right of use, practic­ ally the exclusive property of I.e D:aeai.'t the Ottawa Ski Club since 1920. The F. D. Commission set to 3-4061 work to convert it into a sixty feet autostrada a few years ago, but such stiff opposition was met from the hard igneous rocks of the Laurentians that the scheme was abandoned a quarter a mile from the start, and the road is now what it has always been and what is fondly hoped it will al­ ways be - a picturesque bush path for hikers and sk:e::s, from Ottawa Ski Club Guide, 1943 49 which the motor car is banned. ( 2) The Home Run on the right, It is indeed a very pleasant just past the bridge, and ( 3) path, bordered on the greater near the same spot, the Cote du part of its length by a swift Nord (Skiers are advised to keep flowing stream with many cas­ off the latter however as it is cades, and further up by the fine generally used for downhill com­ woods of the Ottawa Ski Club. petiti

Waxing Skis It is now generally admitted used as a base: Skare, Tento or that a judicious use of wax adds Klister (when available), pine to the enjoyment of skiing. Pro­ tar or hot raw linseed oil. Lin­ perly waxed skis are easier to seed oil may be applied with a handle, keep a straighter course, brush, the others should be burnt go faster down hill and climb in, with a blow torch or over a with less effort on the part of the hot gas flame. Care should be rider. Improperly waxed skis are taken not to burn the skis. Sever­ however worse than bare wood. al applications of linseed oil may In any case, whether skis are be made, the skis being exposed to be waxed or not, they should to the sun or to a source of heat always be primed with a base, between the applications. When which toughens and protects the skis are kept well impregnated wood, makes it, to a certain ex­ with a base, all that is necessary tent, damp proof, and serves as to keep them sliding on a wet an anchor for any wax which day is a touch of graphite on may be put on. Either one of both ends. Skiers should always the following ingredients may be carry with them a small block of

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• Keep your eyes up on the trail, where the danger lies.

• Don't ski alone on isolated trails.

• Always ski under cqntrol.

• If you cannot regain control, stop !

• Keep the ski poles well to the rear when descending. Take the strap off your wrists.

• When you hear "track", move at once to the side of the trail.

• Don't follow an old track on a hill. Make your own in the fresh snow. Many accidents are caused by switching from a hard fast track into the deep snow.

• Have your badge sewn on the front part of your slacks.

• Don't carry your badge loose in your pocket.

• Don't spoil the snow surface by walking on it.

• If you fall and make a hole, fill it up ! Think of the other fellow!

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Contents

PAGE Introduction The Ottawa Ski Club 3 The Gatineau Land 5 The Ridge road 8 Fortune lane 10 Sentier Champlain ----- 13 Crilly's hill ------13 Camp Fortune, ways of access, hills and trails - 15 The Canyon trail ------20 The Tenaga trail 23 The Highland trail ------25 The Little Switzerland trail 29 The Penguin trail ------31 The Western trail 35 On to Wrightville, by George's, Mica Mine and Pink Lake trails -- 38 The Merry-Go-Round trail -- 41 The Pleasant Valley trail ---- 43 The Night Riders ------44 The Dome Hill trail - -- 45 The Log Cabin trail ------46 The Dunlop road - -- 48 Waxing skis --- - 49 Do's and dont's 51 ! : . . '

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