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Open for business!

The trails at Wesley Clover Parks are now open and awaiting skiers Here's the trail map. Other details on the Trails page. Think this is a great initiative for the club and for the city? Then don't forget to support it  with your donation! More

Support Harris’ ski marathon attempt and our club at the same time!

Racing coach and volunteer extraordinaire Harris Kirby is entered in the Canadian Ski Marathon, Feb 7-8. He'll be doing the Coureur de bois Gold level event, which is 160km of skiing over two days with a sleep-out under the stars overnight. Harris did it last year and your support will encourage him to repeat that achievement! Go to our Indiegogo ... More

January 20 update: Upcoming event

The snow is gradually accumulating and our dedicated trail crew has worked magic with trail preparation at Wesley Clover Parks. While it's not yet ready for the public (no classic tracks set and still finalizing the map and signage to help everyone find their way) there will be a ski-orienteering event hosted by the Ottawa Orienteering Club this Saturday ... More

Snow!

January 5, 2015. With the snow we've just received skiing at The Parks could happen by next weekend. But please be kind if we show some growing pains there. As we've only had mere weeks to create this new trail network much still has to be learned and fall into place. For example, we're figuring out how best to groom it all -- a much trickier ... More

January 2 update

From Mike Duivenvoorden: Lack of snow has been a blessing of sorts -- we had another trails maintenance day today and made some excellent progress thanks to a couple of new faces and some repeats.  There are a few other things that can be done but we have long surpassed our goals for this Phase 1. We have an incredible 15 plus km of groomable trails; ... More

Kanata Nordic is on the move!

We've begun the transition to our new home base at Wesley Clover Parks. To learn more visit the main Trails page. More

Adult Evening Ski + Potluck, Fri. March 2, 2012

Leave the kids at home for a change and join your fellow parents and adult volunteers for a social evening of skiing and dining. The event will take place at the Y Bonnenfant Centre, with the potluck in the Vail building (the largest Y building, straight ahead of the 2nd Line Road parking lot). It will run from 6:30 - 9:30 pm. Bring whatever you'd like ... More

February 11, 2012 - Silver Spoon - Deep River With the Silver Spoon sandwiched between the NCSSAA and EOSSAA high school qualifier races only a small KN group participated in this year's Silver Spoon while the others stayed home for some low intensity training.  With ideal conditions by race time two athletes and four old guys took to the trails.  Well ... More

Saturday, Nov. 26th in Gatineau Park

// < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ google_ad_client = "ca-pub-9784520856814565"; /* Feb/11 ads */ google_ad_slot = "6322731787"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; // ]]>After being teased with snow earlier in the week Kanata Nordic Racers had ... More

Club Skinouk Needs Our Help!

Gatineau’s Club Skinouk will host the best cross country skiers from the Maritimes, Quebec and Ontario at the Eastern Canadian Championships February 11, 12, 13, 2011. With the support of Cross Country Canada, this competition has been added to the Haywood Canada Cup, which permits competitors to accumulate points for Canadian standings. Races will ... More

Parting shot…

This one is about 500 metre elevation above the Olympic Park.  7 kms of climbing with no flats, followed by some down hill, a little flat, and then another 250 metres of elevation gain over 4 km of rolling ups and downs.  Well worth the effort. More