Skiing in the merry, merry month of May -- sunny, great glide, lots of hills to climb -- beauty all around me. South Branch Road to the Dome Mountain turn-off and return. What a life this retirement is!

Photos courtesy of John Bookalam

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Please be advised that spring run-off has damaged sections of the parking lot at the Birch Brook Nordic Ski Club. The club is in the process of undertaking repairs. Please exercise caution if you use the parking lot and/or related facilities.

John Bookalam and Sam Fequet, Co-chairs, Trails Committee

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We had a good snowshoe today. There were only about ten or a dozen of us, but we all made it to the top of the hill.

The ski trails were too hard for skiing today, and I don't think they'll have improved by tomorrow. Apart from the snowshoers today, and the Katimavik group from North West River who manned the rental room, hardly anyone else was there.

Cheers,
Graham.

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Photos courtesy of Steve Gregory.

Hi everyone,

After the spectacular success of last week's snowshoe walk, Betty Anne has come up with another new lookout for us to aim for. The summit affords another great view of our trails from a different perspective. Once again t uses the 'back door' approach, increasing height in stages, rather than climbing the steep, front part of the hill.

The North West River Katimavik Group has offered to look after the rental room. If someone wants to leave a camera at the chalet, we could ask...

Hi everyone,

What a great snowshoe trail! Thanks Betty Anne for all the work involved in finding it, cutting and marking it. Well done to all who made it to the lookout and enjoyed the picnic; what a nice crowd we had. And best wishes to Fred and Muna who are moving to Nova Scotia soon and may not get on the Birch Brook trails again.

Jake sent me the attached map. There were quite a few new faces in our group today, so please send this on to anyone you know who came along. Our speed doesn't...

Hello everyone.

Despite some warm temperatures each afternoon, our ski and snowshoe trails held up really well over the Easter weekend. Some members stayed at Colin's Hut. I got out to McLean Lake a couple of times and across the Lynx a few times, and all the trails were in great shape.

This Saturday, 14 April, I'm hoping that as many of you as possible will join a snowshoe walk as a farewell to Fred and Muna. They'll be leaving HV-GB in June. The snowshoe route will be on a new trail that...

On a beautiful sunny day with a high of -7 C, with an excellent groomed trail for classic and skate, a hoard of skiers, local and from away, took to the trails on March 31 for the 37th running of the Great Labrador Loppet.

The feed stations lived up to their reputations with excellent food and drink and lots of moose soup.

The support was great from the RNC, the Ham Radio Club, the Canadian Ski Patrol, Search & Rescue, Town of Labrador City, White Wolf Snowmobile Club and Fermont club. Again...

BY TY DUNHAM / THE AURORA

As George Lefeuvre stepped off the train the bitter February air tore through his lungs, a common greeting from the harsh winters in Labrador West. That he would be inducted into the Newfoundland and Labrador Sports Hall of Fame 51 years later was likely not on his mind, at least not as much as finding a warm bed.

Still in its infancy in 1961, Labrador City was known as the Carol Project, and Mr. Lafeuvre made his way to what the workers called Campsite. A small...

Hi everyone,

What a day! The weather was perfect for our Day at the Lakes on Saturday. A great ski, then soup, sandwiches, cookies, hotdogs, sitting in the sun out on the frozen lake, with the Labrador flag all around us. It was a tough time, but some of us just had to do it. Robin and John put up a couple of exhibition tents (open at the sides), set up a barbeque and we were in business. Quite a few skiers visited Colin's Hut. Congratulations to all those who did it for the first time.

When...