Beaver Tails Nordic Ski Club

Not at Mont Ste Anne’s or doing the Sutton Derby or recovering from Gold medal performances, then you had to be at Oka. A more typical winters day and fresh snow cajoled a keen group of skiers, oh yes and a snow shoer  to come out to play. Not a mention of entrance fees was heard from anyone just the delight of dispensing with multiple layers of clothing and face masks. Oh isn’t -9C wonderful…The day started with the gallant Glenn K and buddy Vivian  H trying to extricate a car which had not quite made the right angled turn in the Parc.  Ultimately a parc truck had be sought.  Everyone else seemed to arrive without incident as did a multitude of other outdoor types particularly ski school kids. There was a festive mood in the air , especially when the ski school warm up music started up. It would appear that several of our group had been watching too  much “Dancing with the Stars” so there was a high degree of body twitching in tune with music. A trifle embarrassing.
Then we were off, as usual the main group headed for the 3, which was found to be excellent condition although I did hear of one face plant, that right Roy?
A couple of skiers left to ski the secteur  le Calvaire, funny I wonder what happened to them, they were still out there when we left. Must be O.K. though didn’t read anything in the obits about Krystyna T or Marlene B. Our lone snow shoer  Helene D reported that she did a massive walk. This was totally unsupported and as such could be a club record. Then there was the ten pin bowling group whose objective was to knock down as many five year old ski school kids as possible before they were knocked down themselves, to be fair those kids we could actual catch up to did step out of the tracks for us, muttering something like make way for the ancients,  I think that’s what they said.
I know someone  like numbers, I believe there were viiteist ( a knowledge of Estonian my help here) plus  Chris L who was reported to be there but not seen.
A good day.