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The summit lies exactly on the Manitoba-Saskatchewan boundary. Its 137 metres (449 ft) vertical drop is currently the largest in Manitoba. [3] Thunderhill, on which the ski area is located, is a feature of the Manitoba Escarpment. The ski area has two sections - upper mountain west and lower mountain east. Each section is served by a T-Bar lift ...
The Wapusk Trail is a winter road that starts in Gillam, Manitoba, where Manitoba Provincial Road 280, between Thompson, Manitoba and Gillam, Manitoba, ends. At 752 kilometres (467 mi) in length, the trail is the longest seasonal road in the entire world. [ 1 ]
With the Duck Mountain Provincial Park to the North, and the Riding Mountain National Park to the South, Grandview Municipality has many outdoor activities, including fishing, hunting, hiking, camping, as well as 500 km local of Snowmobile trails, maintained by the Intermountain Snowmobile Club. Northern Pike Lake in Duck Mountain Provincial Park
Jeff Smith was whizzing along on a snowmobile one evening a few years back when something dark appeared in front of him. But Smith, who said he had snowmobiled on the trail more than 100 times ...
Snow grooming is the process of manipulating snow for recreational uses with a tractor, snowmobile, piste caterpillar, truck or snowcat towing specialized equipment. The process is used to maintain ski hills, cross-country ski trails and snowmobile trails by grooming (moving, flattening, rototilling, or compacting) the snow on them. [1]
In the mid-1950s, a United States firm built a "snowmobile the arctic area of Alaska that had the drive train reversed of today's snowmobiles with two front wheels—the larger one behind the smaller one—with tires driving an endless loop track". Little is known about this "snowmobile" meant to haul cargo and trade goods to isolated settlements.
The network of the Trans Canada Trail is made up of more than 400 community trails. Each trail section is developed, owned, and managed locally by trail groups, conservation authorities, and by municipal, provincial, territorial, and federal governments, for instance in parks such as Gatineau Park or along existing trails such as the Cataraqui Trail and Voyageur Hiking Trail.
The length of the skating trail at The Forks changes each year, depending on river and ice conditions, although a concerted effort is made to make it as long as possible. In the winter of 2010/2011, conditions on The Assiniboine River made it impossible to safely create skating westward, so the path extended instead south on the Red River.