Skiing on March 15th was GREAT!!!!

A Report of Sat. Mar 15th, skiing.

What a crowd on the trail today ... great to see
Ken Mc Donald and Rowena out ... yesterday Linda Coish joined Rowena on
the trails. Linda use to be a regular on the trails as were the Mc
Donalds, but the moved away and now have settled back in the area.
Great to see them back on the trails. What a wonderful family day it
was Whaleback ... Dano and I passed the Benoit clan, formally
from Burgeo, and they were all toggled down with backpacks as they were
heading for a boilup at the Pentagon. I thought they were going berry
pickin', but Dan said, "you fool, it's the wrong season b'ye". And then
we overtook the Mac Donald clan of Theresa, Ivan and Kevin who were
heading for Braveheart and then it was the St. Croix's who we met on the Snowy
Owl. Let me tell ya, they are a crew. I think they have the
largest family in the club, that is if you exclude the Hunts who
have enough to fill a school bus if they bring the grandkids. All 6
St. Croixs were kicking and gliding today and they included
Madelyn, Rita Jane and John on the Snowy Owl and Sebastion, Claire and
"Pierre in the Pulk" coming behind Dad on Raven's Ridge. What
energy the families bring to the trails.

And then Dano and I came upon a gathering at
the pentagon. Sure, the Tom Cods were having a clandestine
meeting. Now hopefully Eric Nippard doesn't challenge me on the
last adjective (it is an adjective, is it not? ... a word that describes a noun
and "meeting" is a noun ... Stephen Penny help me out here) ... so yes this
"fishy" meeting was going on at the Pentagon and Dan and I, all dressed in our
Lively Lobster jerseys, stopped by for a chat. Of course the first thing
we had to do was rescue the fire because the pentagon looked like the Smoke
Room on the Kyle. After rescuing the fire for the Tom Cods, we got the
boot. Imagine that ... lend a hand ... get the fire roaring and they
say, "We're having a private meeting now ya gotta go!" It was
that Noonan guy who's captain that caused the trouble because he's team
captain and he's alwasy up to nefarious deeds ... oh bad word as that's reserved
for property and trees that go missing .... Now I've been on the south
coast a lot and I never saw such blatant inhospitable behaviour in all
my paddle dipping ... The Benoit's, who are wonderful gracious folks,
tried desparately to to redeem the honour for the Tom Cods by offering
us cookies and cakes nd drinks, but Dan and I would have nothing of
it. Because that Noonan fella had a puss on his face that would stop
a Spanish Trawler. He wanted us out of it so we swam off to Oliver's twist
in a state of "insultment" (now Eric, how do you like that for a word ...
it's found in the Cape Breton Highland dictionary and it means "to be
upset due to the lack of hospitality"). Talkin'
about Sea to Sea to Sea teams ... what team is he on anyway ... is he
a sculpin, or a flatfish, or is it a crayfish, or a jellyfish? ... I just don't
know what they are because they don't seem to surface other than to chat at
intersections and block off the trails. I feel a rebuttal, oh no the
Lively Lobsters are about to be attacked again.

Hope to see you all on the trail tomorrow and
remember if you come across someone you don't know, introduce yourself and
then you'll know them. Bill Boland, has already met 97.5 % of
the club and he has just been a members for two days ... so if you're new on the
trails try to surpass Bill's "gregarious" record.

GO

PS
Now according to Greg Noonan, the meeting was
called to develop a new strategy to get ahead of the Urchins and the Rolling
Capelin who are duking it out for the lead at Whaleback.