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Access and parking: Turn off Spray Avenue on to the road
to the golf course and park at the Bow Falls viewpoint.
Note: when the golf course road is open for
public use it provides access to the trails at the far
end of the golf course.
Length and classification: Trails
1, 2 and 3 - see Spray River area trails (next page);
Trail 4 (loop) -1. 7 km, Easy; Trail 5 (loop) - 3.5 km,
Easy; Trail 6 (partial loop) - 2.4 km, Easy; Trail 7
(partial loop) -2.7 km, Easy.
Description: The golf course is
popular with cross-country skiers; it's accessible, flat
and open; the slope in front of the clubhouse is a
perfect place to work on improving your technique, and
there's a good chance of seeing elk.
Signed trails on the golf course
consist of a short loop at the near end (Trail 4), two
larger interconnected loops at the far end (Trails 6 and
7), and a connecting trail joining these loops (Trail 5).
In addition to the signed trails, there are many others
but as you go farther down the golf course, these become
fewer.
Trail 4 starts at the bridge on the
Spray River and follows a trail down the right hand side
of the service road until its route is blocked by an
enormous boulder. Climbers use this boulder, Rundle Rock,
for practice. Cross the road here, swing round the tee on
fairway 3 and wind back through the fairways to the
bridge.
The start of Trail 5, near the tee on
fairway 3, can be reached by following Trail 4 from the
parking lot. Trail 5 leads down the centre of the golf
course to the start of Trail 6, 2.3 km away. From here
you can ski Trails 6 and 7, continue to follow Trail 5
which goes on to circle round the 11th fairway, or simply
turn round and follow Trails 5 and 4 back to the parking
lot.
Trails 6 and 7 more or less divide
between them the loop road at the far end of the golf
course. Most of this road is unplowed during the winter
and provides pleasant, secluded skiing. Trail 6 continues
in a straight line from Trail 5 until it meets the loop
road. Trail 7 by-passes the plowed section of the loop
road by following a road set farther back in the trees.
It branches off Trail 6 just before a sharp dip in that
trail and winds through the trees to join the loop road.
Sheltered by trees, Trails 6 and 7 are always in better
condition than the others. Sun and wind tend to make the
snow cover thin and the track icy on the more exposed
golf course trails.
Hazards: Occasionally people get
lost on the golf course. The south end of Trail 7 crosses
the bottom of an avalanche zone.
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