Ski Trail and Snowshoe Trail Improvements

I hope that you will be as excited as I am about the improvements that have been made to our ski and snowshoe trail systems.

Ski Trail and Snowshoe Trail Improvements

Nov.17, 2009

The owners, manager, and staff are continuing in their commitment to make Stokely’s trail systems better than they already are. Following is a list of what is new and improved:
1. The Sam Lake are will be opened up to skiing again this year. Two trails in particular that will be open again will be the Wash Walker Trail and Wynn’s Trail. Much work was done to clean up these trails: stump removal, boulder removal, ditching, culvert installation, and a widening out so that we will be able to take our big groomer through this area.
2. A clean up of the trail going up to the Sam Lake warming cabin.
3. The installation of a new 3.5 km.trail called the Lapointe Lake Trail that loops around Tier Lake.
4. Improvements on the Picard Lake trail including ditching, stump removal, and culvert installation to deal with the many wet spots that made grooming difficult. These improvements should enable us to get to Norm’s cabin earlier in the season.
5. Those who have taken the challenge of skiing to the west peak of King Mountain will remember that when you get there you are faced with a very difficult 150 yard ungroomed uphill often with a lot of snow that you have to break trail through in order to get to the warming cabin and lookout. We have made a new trail that will allow our groomer to get right to the cabin.
6. A new snowshoe trail that will reach all the way out to Stokely Lake.
7. A new snowshoe trail that will branch off from the existing trail going to the West Peak of King Mountain. This trail will pick up the east peak and extend over to the Frozen Water Fall with a number of spectacular views along the way. The total new additions to our snowshoe trail system will give us about 22 kms. of snowshoe trails!

Note: We would like to acknowledge that a grant from the Government of Canada through the National Trails Coalition helped offset some of the costs associated with the above trail improvements.

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