On Tuesday evening, March 19th, at Bridge Masters Brewing Company, nearly 40 members of the club met to swap ski stories about the season that nearly wasn’t. Over great beer, pizza, and tacos, club members put names to faces seen on the trails, and faces to names read in club updates. The executive members gaveContinue reading “End-of-season wrap-up”
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That’s all folks!
As any perceptive skier might have concluded, the season is done! Murphys Point closed their trails permanently, as planned, on March 10th. Unfortunately, the trails were unusable prior to the official closing. We hope you managed to get out enjoy the snow while we had it! Please join the club for an end-of-year get-together atContinue reading “That’s all folks!”
Trails closed!
As a result of the melting base layer, bare spots appearing on roadways and the flash freeze this evening, the trails at Murphys Point will be closed until further notice. Murphys Point Provincial Park Superintendant
Track your distance, win a prize!
Track your skiing this season. Any style, anywhere. (NOTE: snowshoeing counts, too!) 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/ . Skiers who rack up the most kilometres by the end of theContinue reading “Track your distance, win a prize!”
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) toContinue reading “New grooming status app”
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 andContinue reading “Trails are ready”
AGM November 14
All members are welcome to attend the TVCCSC Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, November 14 at the Perth Pool, 7-8 pm. We’ll be looking to elect our Executive for 2023-24. We need to fill the positions of President and Vice-President this year, so please consider joining a great group of volunteers on the Executive! A fewContinue reading “AGM November 14”
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 andContinue reading “Trees planted!”
Your opinion matters
As spring slowly takes hold, the club wants to know how your ski season went. Every year, at the end of the season, we send out a survey to hear what you think about the club and the ski trails, grooming, programs, etc. Please take a few minutes to answer the following survey before Friday,Continue reading “Your opinion matters”
Top Skier Breaks 1000kms!
Richard Brousseau and Kim Fournier have topped the charts! Richard skied a jaw-dropping 1012kms this season to claim the top spot on our Kilometre Challenge. Second place and Top Female goes to Kim Fournier who skied a remarkable 773kms! CONGRATULATIONS! Watch this space for photos of the two champs holding their club trophies.
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