Travel to Nova Scotia

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The great thing about cross country skiing is that you don’t need that much vertical to have fun. In other words you don’t need a long or steep slope. However, if the opportunity presents itself the rush is still as great.

Nova Scotia is not known for high mountains yet it has three thriving ski areas and a burgeoning cross country recreational skiing community. In fact there are over 20 cross country ski areas in the province. Here is a breakdown as provided by the nice folks at CanadaTrails.

1. Rails to Trails: Liverpool, Queens County

2. Kejimkujik National Park: South Nova Scotia

3. Upper Clements Wildlife Park: Annapolis Valley

4. Dayspring Recreational Complex

5. Shubie Park: Dartmouth

6. Jack Lake Trails: Central Nova Scotia

7. Old Orchard Inn: Annapolis Valley

8. Ski Martok: Annapolis Valley

9. Wentworth Hostel: Cumberland County

10. Ski Wentworth: Cumberland County

11. Five Islands Provincial Park: Cumberland County

12. Trenton Steeltown Centennial Park: Central Nova Scotia

13. Antigonish Golf Club: Central Nova Scotia

14. Beaver Mountain Provincial Park: Central Nova Scotia

15.  Fortress Louisbourg National Historic Park: Cape Breton

16.  Highland Ski Trail: Cape Breton

17. Ski Tuonela: Cape Breton

18. Middle River Ski Club: Cape Breton

19. Ski Margaree Valley: Cape Breton

20. Big Baddeck Trails: Cape Breton

21. St. Ann’s Gaelic College: Cape Breton

22. Ski Ben Eoin: Cape Breton

23. Cape Breton Highlands National Park: Cape Breton

24. Highland Ski Touring: Cape Breton

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Although not a very large skiing destination Ski Wentworth has some of the most varied and challenging slopes in the Maritime Provinces. The hill is 815 vertical feet high with 20 alpine trails, a 1/2 Pipe, terrain park and a variety of challenging trails that even experts can enjoy.The ski season is sually from December to late March and the ski pass is really reasonable.

The area’s snow making machinery can accommodate 2/3rds of our total slopes and they have night skiing on three trails: Sissy, Rosebowl and Beaver. As well, there arelights on the Terrain Park and 1/2 pipe.

Here are some features:

Lifts – 1 Quad chair, 1 TBar & 2 rope tows

Ski Shop & Repair - Cleve’s Sporting Goods offers a wide selection of ski and snowboard equipment, clothing and accessories. Look for weekend demos to check out all the latest equipment. Cleves also tunes and repairs your skis. Leave them Sunday, ready to roll the next weekend.

Ski & Snowboard Rentals – No equipment? No problem. Our rental shop has a wide variety of skis, boards and blades as well as boots, poles and helmets. Everything you need to get you going.

Upcoming Events

Dec. 26-31 – Hours 9am-4:30pm

$25 lift ticket & $20 rental special

Dec. 31 – New Years Eve Party

Jan. 1 - Regular pricing, hours & specials in effect

Jan. 1 – First Steak & Ski Night

Jan. 2 - First Wing Night with Tim Bowers

Jan. 3 - First Classical Sunday

Jan. 10 - Snow School programs start

So, give it a shot. Even if you don’t have the gear the price is so reasonable that you can be skiing for less than the price of a concert ticket at the Merto Centre.

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With the economic woes in the U.S. a reality, and every television channel in the world spouting off doom and gloom, North American ski hill operators are bracing for more rocks than snow. Skiers who were used to travel long distances every year to try out new hills are suddenly getting cold feet. And this has nothing to do with the temperatures at the skill hills.

This reality puts ski hill operators between a rock and a hard place. Financing and credit woes have already kicked a few resorts, especially ones that were heavily indebted. An with skiers and snowboarders looking at staying close to home the far away places will not be able to give as many options because they won’t be able to hire the staff. Some operators re putting off opening gondolas to runs to save money and this means cutting jobs so desperately needed.

In addition, the resorts will lose in their hotels accommodations and food services as those skiers who do come will be looking for cheaper ways of having a holiday. This means motels and bed-and-breakfasts instead of luxury accommodations on the hill.

The kicker is that most of these people have jobs and the money. They are just watching the gray forcasts on the media like a person who is told they will be getting sick and, in a psychosomatic trend, actually does.

After 9-11 the Bush administration told the nation that the best thing they could do was to go ot and spend to keep the eceonomy from taking a hit like the towers did. Th new president should be telling people to do the same thing. Buy cars and take holidays because this will do a lot to both stimulate the economy and to gain trust in the stock markets.

The only bright spot is the increase in seasons passes for ski hills where there is a large local population. These people might not want o go south to mexico or the Caribbean for a vacation when they can ski all winter for a a fraction of the cost.

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