Winter Community Trail Celebration – Chelsea Ski and Snowshoe Challenge
Sunday, February 21, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Come celebrate the Chelsea Winter Community Trail’s 10th anniversary!
Hi folks and happy New Year! 2016 is shaping up to be an eventful year and we are happy to kick off another season of the Community Winter Trail along the Chelsea railway corridor.
The winter trail along the railway corridor is 10 years old this year, and it’s grown into a well loved feature of winter recreation in Chelsea. This 16 km corridor connects 8 residential neighbourhoods, and will be extended an additional 2 km south this year, to chemin Loretta. This joint venture between Chelsea Trails and the Municipality of Chelsea requires both volunteer hours and financial support. Volunteers from Chelsea Trails do the brush cutting, install signage and do pre-season trail maintenance, while trail lovers and local businesses donate cash to support winter grooming and maintenance work. (more…)
It’s the sound of volunteers clearing the trail with bushcutters to make ready for Rob Lafleur’s groomers – for yet another wonderful winter of beautiful skiing on the tracks.
Alain Piche of Chelsea Trails is organizing 3 weekend workbees along the tracks. Next one is this Saturday, 31 October. If you’re interested in joining us, call Alain for more info: 819-827-3750
Bring your personal safety equipment, work gloves, safety glasses, and pruners if you have them.
Kyra Shaughnessy performed an intimate house concert last Sunday, October 18th, to 46 people at the home of Roberta Walker and Sandy Foote. It was a warm and folkcy concert that raised $1,200 in support of the winter trail. Special thank you to Eleanor Crowder who donated the concert, and Roberta and Sandy for their donation and home. And, of course, thanks to Kyra for her beautiful voice and music.
Come out on Sunday October 18th from 3:00 to 5:00 PM and support Sentiers Chelsea Trails (sentierschelseatrails.wordpress.com) and see one of Quebec’s rising folk artists, Kyra Shaughnessy (kyrashaughnessy.com),. Tickets are $25 and only 50 are available. All funds raised will be used to maintain the community winter ski trail on the railway tracks.
To buy tickets follow this. Link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/house-concert-with-kyra-shaughnessy-in-support-of-sentiers-chelsea-trails-tickets-18577391478
Hope to see you there!
This October, Sentiers Chelsea Trails (SCT) will be partnering with the National Capital Commission (NCC) on a project to rehabilitate trails and to undertake habitat restoration between the village centre and the Chelsea Creek ravine. The work complements the new bridge connecting the Chelsea Picnic Grounds on Kingsmere Road to Old Chelsea Road and the adjacent cemetery (known as the Old Chelsea Protestant Burial Grounds). (more…)
Thirty people showed up last Saturday afternoon to hike the des Pommiers – Winnisic Trail.
Led and interpreted by Doug Taylor, who organized the trail building over three years, Doug was able to describe the process of the trail’s development, of bridge building and the hard work of carrying the materials onto the trail.
The hike started at the Route 105 trailhead, just north of Pine Road and followed the trail north through forest, field, over bridges, and wooden walkways, followed by a fox, down Winnisic road and finally returning along the railway and the beautiful Gatineau River.
Thank you to the dozens of volunteers who contributed over 450 hours of labourbuilding the trail and to the hikers for joining us on a sunny afternoon in June. Does it get much better?
Come and discover Chelsea’s newest municipal hiking trail on. Constructed by Chelsea Trails volunteers with support from the Municipality, the Des Pommiers-Winnisic trail will take approximately 2 hours to explore.
We will meet at the intersection of Pine Road and Route 105. Parking on Pine Road is limited so car pooling is recommended. Proper hiking footwear is recommended, with rubber boots if weather is wet.
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