Trails & facilities
Twenty-six kilometres, set and groomed by members
The trails start six kilometres south of Burns Lake on Highway 35. More than 26 km of them are groomed through the winter, three are lit for skiing after dark, and there is a four-kilometre loop where the dog can come too.
- Groomed trails
- 26+ km
- Lit night trail
- 3 km
- Aidan's Dog Trail
- 4 km
- Snowshoe trails
- Two
- Biathlon range
- On site
- Wax cabin
- Heated
the main network
for skiing after dark
a loop where dogs are welcome
kept off the set tracks
used by the club biathlon program
wax, change, warm up
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Three kilometres, lit, for the months when it is dark at four
In a northern winter the daylight does not last long enough to ski after work. Three kilometres of the network are lit for exactly that reason — a loop you can do in the evening without a headlamp, in the middle of the week, in January.
The wax cabin is heated, which matters more than it sounds like it does when it is minus twenty-five and you have cold hands.
Not only classic tracks
Dogs, snowshoes and a rifle range
A ski club in a small town has to work for everybody who wants to be out in the snow, not only for people on skinny skis. So there are separate trails for the things that do not belong in a set track.
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4 km
Aidan's Dog Trail
A four-kilometre loop set aside so dogs can come skiing too, without churning up the classic tracks on the rest of the network.
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Two
Snowshoe trails
Two trails for snowshoeing, kept separate from the ski tracks — the simplest way for everyone to share the same patch of forest.
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Range
Biathlon
The club has its own biathlon range on site and its own Biathlon Club, with a volunteer director on the executive.
Buildings & kit
Somewhere warm, and skis if you do not own any
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The heated wax cabin
Where you wax, change, warm your hands and — right now — where the green drop-box for pass payments lives.
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Jean Paulson Lodge
The club lodge, which is available to rent. Contact the club for availability and terms.
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Equipment rentals
The club rents equipment, so a first-timer does not have to buy skis to find out whether they like it.
Renting the lodge
The Jean Paulson Lodge can be rented. The club has not published rates or an availability calendar, so this concept does not invent either — a real build would put a request form right here, and the club would still confirm by hand.
Ask about the lodge →Trail map
The map belongs here, and it belongs to the club
In a real build this is where the trail map would sit — zoomable, downloadable, readable on a phone with gloves on. We have deliberately left it out of this concept, and we have not invented trail names or distances that the club has not published.
Ask the club for the current map →Getting here
Six kilometres south of Burns Lake, on Highway 35
Head south out of town on Highway 35 and the club is six kilometres down the road. It is close enough that skiing after work is a realistic idea, which is most of the point of the lit trail.
The club has not published trail-by-trail opening hours or a daily grooming report, so this concept does not show one. Both would be easy to add and would probably answer the question people phone about most.
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