End-of-ski-season Social

You’re invited to an end-of-ski-season social for members of the Tay Valley Cross-Country Ski Club on Tuesday, March 24, at the Bridge Masters Brewing Company, 29 Beckwith St. East, Perth, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. 

The Club Executive invites our members to celebrate a fantastic year on trails. We’ll provide some complimentary snacks, and beverages will be available for purchase. 

Come and meet the TVCCSC executive, coordinators, and our awesome trail management and grooming team.  The winners of this year’s distance challenge will also be announced.  

Please send a reply to:  tvccscmembercommunications@gmail.com as soon as possible, to indicate whether you plan to attend and the names of the members who will be coming, to help us with the food order.  We will have a sign-in sheet at the entrance.

We look forward to seeing you there!

TVCCSC Executive

Trail etiquette

As more and more people head to Murphy’s Point to enjoy some time in the outdoors, we thought it would be a good time to remind everyone of winter trail etiquette.

Ontario Parks has published an article on their blog. Here is a link to that article. We have also added an Etiquette page to our Trails section. Please visit that page for a more complete description of proper trail etiquette.

5 Tips for Sharing Winter Trails

  • Read the signs
  • Don’t hike or snowshoe on groomed ski trails
  • Don’t step on groomed tracks
  • Share the trails
  • Be prepared

Head out to the park but please share the trails responsibly.

Signs at the trail head. Note all walkers are asked to remain to the side of groomed trails.

New grooming status app

Great News! The Tay Valley Cross Country Ski Club has partnered with Nordic Pulse, an app-based cross country ski trail grooming report system! It provides trail condition reports from ski areas across North America on one platform and streamlines grooming reporting for ski areas. Using the Global Positioning System (GPS) and Assisted GPS (AGPS) to acquire very accurate data in a variety of conditions, it provides next to real time trail conditions.

You can find the Nordic Pulse grooming status of our trails at Murphys Point HERE.

If you are reading this on your phone, you can download the app for your Apple or Android device. Just search Nordic Pulse (see the icon in the upper left of the image below). Don’t forget to set TVCCSC as a favourite in the app.

Start of New Season

The ski season has finally arrived and the ski trails are groomed for your enjoyment, so get yourself geared up for another exhilarating season of skiing on the alluring, scenic trails of Point Murphy’s Provincial Park. As always you can expect the ski trails to be very well groomed by our many decidated grooming volunters. As a small club we take much pride in the quality of grooming that we provided to all our membership, whether it be for classic or skate skiing.

So, if you haven’t already, then get your club membership and enjoy the picturesque natural beauty of winter in the park with other ski enthusists.

Cross country skiing in a beautiful natural environment is a great way to reconnect with nature and beat the winter doldrums while invigorating both your spirit and your body. It is hard to find a more enjoyable way to keep fit mentally and physically. So, get out there and frolic on those wonderful, scenic trails.

Join the club!

Our digital registration page is up and running. Click HERE to join.

This year, at the AGM, members stated a desire to freeze membership fees again for this year. So, the cost to join remains the same: $75 for a family, $50 for an adult individual, $25 for students and Jackrabbits (who aren’t part of a family membership).

Please note that our club pays the national governing body $24 for each membership. This provides the club with liability insurance as well as funding the provincial and national sporting bodies.

The snow is on the way…so join the club!

TVCCSC logo

Track your distance, win a prize!

Track your skiing this season. Any style, anywhere. (NOTE: snowshoeing counts, too!) Starting on January 1st 2026 a new form will be activated to allow you to enter the date, distance, and location of your outing in this form. We will tabulate the results as the season progresses and post a leaderboard on the website page: https://tayvalleyskiclub.com/km-count/. The top male and female skiers who rack up the most kilometres by the end of the season will each be awarded a one-of-a-kind trophy.

For this challenge, the ski season runs from January 1st to March 10th 2026.

If you have already skied (or snowshoed) starting January 1st, but didn’t track your distance, then you can still enter an estimate in the form.

Happy skiing! Happy snowshoeing!

Trails are ready

According to our Trail Boss, Phill, club members and the executive have put in about 100 person hours of volunteer labour in preparing trails (another round of branch clean-up happened this weekend) and buying/ prepping grooming equipment for the upcoming season.  The Board members (old and new) have spent many more hours meeting, planning and completing action items to make the club function smoothly…not to mention the less exciting but essential Website, Facebook maintenance, and the research into the club’s safety protocols and obligations.

When Mother Nature blesses us with some more white stuff, the club will be ready!

Found on the Trakkers Cross Country Ski Club site :)

Trees planted!

The trees were planted at Lombardy Public School on May 5th, as the first initiative of the ski club Green / Eco fund to help offset the carbon released by fuel used for trail grooming.  One hundred and fifty trees were purchased from Ferguson Forest Nursery and planted by students to provide shade trees and habitat along the barren fence line surrounding the school playground.   

If you have suggestions for future initiatives or if your kids’ school is interested in trees for student playgrounds, please let us know at tvccsc.president@gmail.com.