Welcome to Nakkertok

Saturday Practice @ P9 :
Let's meet at P9 at around 8:45am (not at P6 as indicated previously -- -my fault). This will allow the younger T2T athletes taking part in the Cookiebeiner to register at 8:45am and take off at 9:00am. It looks there will only be few coaches at this practice so we may need to grab some parent volunteers to come along with us. Pray that Environment Canada is wrong!

Sunday Skimeister @ Nakk North: It looks there will only be Coach Paul at the Skimeister for the T2T. Parents: please help him start to build the jumps or with anything he needs. There may be a possibility for some folks to go for a ski @ Nakk North. Please bring a desert, appetizer, fruit or veggie to share. There will be a few BBQs with tube-steaks (hot dogs). Please register by adding your name and particulars at this link: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Apw3FHSNkltydGdFU2M5bzlmZHEySmlNTE43Q0NLbUE&hl=en_GB. This is so that they can plan the food appropriately and they don't end up with 3000 carrot sticks!

Festivities are from 11am until about 2pm. If you're able to come early to help build the jumps and bumps, please bring along your favourite shovel. (A helpful hint is to label your shovel with your name, so you can find it at the end, as there is a lot of indiscriminate shovel sharing that happens! ;-). Please contact me directly This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you have any questions. Bearing in mind that I'm off on March Break on Sunday morning so I will NOT be responding to anything received after Saturday night.

Lastly, send your positive thoughts to those Nakkertokkers at Nationals. Go Nakk Go!

Coach Bryan

Back from Whistler in time to join Stefani's final Jackrabbit picnic on Sunday up at Nakkertok.  What a gorgeous day to be skiing.  I was lucky enough to also fit in a personal ski.  Was thrilled to see how much snow there still is here.  A few bare spots inspired me to shovel snow last night before the freeze-up.  I knew Marc was grooming overnight, so went back to check it out this morning.  And I have to say " the skiing at Nakkertok couldn't be better ".  This is on the upper trails, above the stadium up on the ridge and beyond.   The highlight though, are the trails north of the OWL Cabin, as there seems to be twice as much snow in this upper reach.  Marc groomed the Morral Loop wide enough to allow a skate track next to the classic - spring skiing at it's best.

Please let the Ottawa ski community know about this 'hidden gem'  - that they can still fit in a Nakkertok ski this season !

ps.....Dirk remains out west - in full grooming / organizing grooming mode for the Para Olympics.  His role is not an envious one.  The lack of sleep is the difficult part as he has to connect with both the TD's and his grooming team.  He's doing a great job, but will get his 'holiday' once he's home.

Cheers!