Five Winds Backcountry Ski Club

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Who We Are

The Five Winds Backcountry Ski Club is a four-season outdoor club. During the winter months, we enjoy cross country skiing on marked, ungroomed wilderness trails, off-trail snowshoeing and winter camping. Each Sunday, from January to the end of March, a luxury coach will take us to different areas of our trail system. During the spring, summer and fall, we enjoy activities such as hiking, backpacking, trail clearing, and camping. Read more...

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This year, we will be having a few more Sunday Bus off-trail snowshoe events for Members (announced closer to the day) as well as some snowshoe/winter camping events. Short notice events such as ski, snowshoe, hikes, trail clearing, backpacking trips and winter camping will be sent by way of the Members' Google Group.

Buses run every Sunday until end of March or until the snow disappears.

Read more about this new event: The Five Winds Challenge Event(s) here.

Upcoming Events

Overnight Backpack - Five Winds Trails

22 Sep 2018 •
Registration not enabled yet (Date TBD) - Trail Clearing at Em's Cabins - Weekend or come up for the day! (session 1 of 2)

12 Oct 2018 6:00 PM • Nine Mile Lake - East Section Trails - Gravenhurst side
CANCELLED - 400 Side - Cottage Trail Clearing Wknd (Sat/Sun - Fri. Night Arrival Option) - or Come up for the Day - Registration Opens Sept. 1

13 Oct 2018 9:30 AM • Five Winds Trails -- 400 side
Registration not enabled yet (Date TBD) - Trail Clearing at Em's Cabins - Weekend or come up for the day! (session 2 of 2)

19 Oct 2018 6:00 PM • Nine Mile Lake - East Section Trails - Gravenhurst side
Test

01 Dec 2018 1:00 PM • Five Winds Trails

News

Five Winds News: Latest news about the Club (public website).

Club News: This is on our Members Only section of our Club News containing additional news/events/information. (Five Winds Members must login first to view).

Updates

Bus Updates - Our bus captains will give you the latest info on the bus, where we are going, if there is space still available for walk-ons, and/or snow/weather conditions.

Snow Updates - We have many members who have homes or cottages near our trail system, so we will receive frequent Snow Updates on how much snow we have in the general vicinity of our trails, state of ice conditions.

Trail Updates: This is an area for trail captains and all members to post any comments about our trails such as blow-downs and location, chainsaw work needed, trail cleared, missing signs, etc. (Five Winds Members must login first to view or post.)