Quiet Sunday

There are days where I just don’t want to start up the Gator or the Alpine. I don’t want to lug a chain saw and gas and oil out into the woods.
Then there’s the fact that parts of our trails have not been skied or groomed for a while.
Such was the case today.

With Montreal pretty much set for the foreseeable future, it’s time to look to the west; Uller. I wanted to look at the lower beaver pond on the Krankkala Spur section and see how it survived the mini warm up and lack of snow we’ve had during the last two weeks.
I also remember having a stretch of brush in the trail making my blood boil just north of the pond. It was apparently time to go take a ski trip up into that country, check the pond and reduce some brush to submission.
I picked my 25 year old Fischer e99’s, a pair of loppers and some water and skied on Blue/Purple mix wax through a crusty 4” of snow on top of our roller track. It was fast!

The pond is nice and hard. The brush is now cut. I got to spend an absolutely calm, cloudy 22º day adding to my intel and opening out a section of Uller.
Check out the picture I took. I was thinking (while nipping alder), you don’t need to be a he-man or a legend (like some people think we are... and we don’t unburden them of those thoughts), an Alpine whisperer or a Gator driver to do really needed work on any of our trails. Your skis, some water and one of the club’s loppers and you’re a Ranger, doing big time trail maintenance... even on Uller!

Contact us through this new-fangled website, we can set you up with a section of either trail that needs work. If you are a skier or a snowshoer, all you got to do is want to.

-Z