Outdoor Pictures & Videos

Made it out to the Mer Bleue bog in the east end on Sunday with some friends!

What a beautiful day up at Camp Fortune! Even found a little hidden powder off to the left of Slalom :)

Speaking of fall camping: here’s my brother and some friends last weekend up at Lac LaPeche:

Some friends and I went up to Palmer Rapids last week to beat the heat – what a great day of paddling and body surfing!

Spent Saturday up at Mont Ste Marie running up Radar Road (4k), then down Pilsner and Lager trails (another 4k).

Wow – what a challenge!

Got my old kayak out on the Canal today around Dow’s Lake – good news, it floats! I’ll be painting finishing off the repair and painting it up in short order…

Went for a great hike up King Mountain today with some family and friends! Such a beautiful weekend – anyone else get out?!

Took a beautiful hike around Lauriault Trail today – what a perfect day for an outting!

Snowshoeing Trails #60 & 1 Friday Jan 6th

Snowmaking is in full force at Camp Fortune!

Check out these diehards from the XCOttawa team – taking advantage of this week’s first (wee) snowfall! More pics at XCOttawa…

Flat Pass is getting a make over. A new section has smoothed out what was a slow, tippy toe downhill section into a flowier version. If you were one of the 5 people who actually rode the board/tree technical feature, you can still tuck into the old trail and continue to ride it. For most everyone else, you will likely appreciate the new, faster…[Read more]

Looking for a nice way to enjoy the fall colours? Check out Camp Fortune’s brunch + a chairlift ride:

The start times now posted for the Forest Lea Enduro. All of the race details, including start times and online registration are available at the Forest Lea blog.

Race routes marked, too:
The 3, 10 and (now) 23k loops are all marked. The 3 and 10 start to the right of the cabin and follow the ski trail back to Q; the 23 starts up the road for 3k,…[Read more]

Two guys wrestling to get their canoe unwrapped from a rock at Palmer last weekend… on day 1 of a 3 day trip, too!

KC the Happy Camper is kayaking around Newfoundland these days… here’s his first vid:

A little video of some me and my friends running Palmer Rapids last week in some canoes:

En Equilibre, Top of the World, Fokus, and Republic snowboards got together to have a jam at Camp Fortune

This is the new run at Mount Ste-Marie. It’s on the South side of the hill and is all natural snow (ungroomed). You must be accompanied by an instructor and/or ski patrol. To do this run you must sign up at the front desk. It starts at the top of the Vanier chair and goes down the South side. It brings you all the way down to the golf course.…[Read more]

Take a look at these Revolights: motion-sensitive lights that clip on to your bike wheel and project light forward and backward! This project got off the ground after a successful fundraising campaign on kickstart, you should check out their original fundriasing video, too, where they show some prototypes!

Speaking of the Acrobag setup at Edelweiss this week, here’s a video of the Acrobag in action at Mont Ste Marie last weekend

Tent rolling or packing? Which is best? The Happy Camper weighs in:

While I’m putting out videos, take a look at these geniuses paddling a swollen river (in Latvia, I think). If you’ve ever wanted an example of the danger of sweepers, you should watch this…

I came across this on Paddling Instructor. Note, it gets a bit weird after 5:20.

Tired of waiting for the snow? I get it, and so do the guys at all.i.can, who put out this awesome promo video:

This is a short film about the gatineau river watershed, which is currently being threatened by a proposed septic sludge treatment plant along its shores north of Wakefield Quebec.

For more info visit http://www.savethegatineau.com.

Here’s a great video by 53 x 11 of the Eastern Ontario Cyclocross series year-end. Pretty miserable weather!

Michelle at the MEC blog has posted a few videos of snurfing, or snowskating, or basically snowboarding on a skateboard deck. Check out this vid, and visit the MEC blog for a few more nice ones.

This video is from 33hugo of the Kanata Nordic Ski racers on a training hike in Gatineau Park last week – looks intense :)

A great video from Kris Westwood of the 2011 Ontario Cyclocross Championships:

I came across these two mountain biking videos posted at privateerMTB.com. The first is some nice riding at Camp Fortune:

And the second one… a nice bail as he clips a pedal:

A nice vid of the near channel at Deschenes rapids by mmmpaddling. The water level was 3.8 on the Britannia guage

Don’t be a jerk, stay off hte sidewalk! A funny video put out by New York City featuring John Leguizamo

I’m always on the lookout for ways to merge my love of the outdoors with my enjoyment of gadgets – and here’s a tablet that really blurs the lines:

Episode 4 in Kris Westwood’s series on Cyclocross lessons… this time: the bunnyhop!

In this third installment in his Cyclocross lessons series, Kris Westwood looks at biking in sand: