Thanks for a great cross country ski season at Mount Washington Ski Resort

 by Keith and Heather Nicol

   It was a sad day when we cleaned out our ski locker at Raven Lodge on Sunday, April 13 to end the 2025 cross country ski season. Raven Lodge is the base of operations of cross country skiing and snow shoeing at Mount Washington near Courtenay, B.C on Vancouver Island.  Given all the early snow that the resort had the cross country ski trails were almost fully open by Christmas. That was lucky since January and February turned out to be drier than normal but we already had a good base. March arrived with lots more snow and so the season will end with close to 2 meters of snow on the ground. Overall grooming was great this year and the resort did a great job keeping the popular Park trails open even as snow was disappearing at key stream crossings through the last couple of weeks.

                       We had some great times on the trails with visitors from across the country

So next year if you have thought about trying cross country skiing or snowshoeing then check out Raven Lodge at Mount Washington. They have over 50 km of trail groomed for skating and classic skiing as well as many snowshoe trails. Raven Lodge has great mountain views and inside you can have a bite to eat, book rentals and lessons, buy day tickets and even have a sauna.  Lets hope next winter brings more snow and continued great skiing to Mount Washington.  I even got in a xc ski on the last weekend to Lake Helen Mackenzie and it was perfect for skating on (see below) . For more information see: https://www.mountwashington.ca/