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This website is a place where the administrators of GuideGatineau.ca can make their technical fumbles. There probably isn't much of interest here for you.
GuideGatineau.ca is the site for people who love Gatineau Park. There you will find news, events, video, discussion forums and more.

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  • 100 Years of Skiing Party
    The Canadian Ski Museum and the Camp Fortune Ski Club are now offering tickets to an October 23 2010 evening of dinner, drinks and dancing.
  • Carleton Newspaper on Hiking in Gatineau Park
    The Charlatan takes a look at hikes in the Park
  • Climber Meeting Called – Frustration Evident
    The ongoing saga of discussions between the NCC and rock climbers in Gatineau Park resurfaced yesterday with the posting at the Climbers’ Coalition
  • Old Wolf Howl
    Google alerts sometimes dig up odd things. Here's an article from the Aug-Sept 2008 Capital Parent newspaper, written by Katherine Fletcher about
  • Dryland Training for Young Skiers
    From TriRudy: The LifeSki Academy is running an early-fall dryland camp for young cross country skiers to assess and improve their movement technique
  • Unofficial Access Points Closed Off
    The blog Hiking in Gatineau Park: The Unofficial Trails has posted photos of several places along the Eardley-Masham Road where the NCC has blocked ac
  • Park Entrance Work Out For Tender
    In November 2009 the NCC undertook a consultation on the redesign of entrances to Gatineau Park. In June of 2010 they released a report on that consul
  • Low Down Zip
    Reporters from LowDownOnline checked out the zip line course at Camp Fortune and compared it to those at Great Canadian Bungee and Lafleche Adventure.
  • NCC Criticized Over Parking Pass
    A letter to the editor in the Ottawa Citizen opines that to get a parking pass required too much detail (name, address, e-mail, phone, and licence pla
  • Beaver Bafflers
    From a longer article on coexisting with beavers, from the Haw River Assembly website: Gatineau Park, an 80,000-acre park in Quebec, solved its beaver

Beta2

GuideGatineau is now "in Beta2” which means:
• we’re working on a better look & feel
• we’re looking for French contributors
• there will be a few technology bumps
• one of those bumps is that the "new look" is taking too long and we've jumped to a second interim look
You can help. Using the site and encouraging your friends to check it out will show us how to improve.
If you care to you can join the conversation on what directions GuideGatineau ought to take technically or thematically.

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