Canmore Nordic Centre Provincial Park - 2023 - Iliad

Friends of Kananaskis Country 

TRAIL DAY CALL OUT – VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! 

 

CANMORE NORDIC CENTRE – ILIAD TRAIL BUILD 

 

Help build your local trail community! The new Iliad trail build at the Canmore Nordic Centre will be located between the Rundle and Meadowview ski trails and is designed to be challenging and fun with lots of elevation changes. It will be constructed predominately to blue square difficulty with numerous black diamond sections that will have ride-around options built in. 

 

   

WHAT TO EXPECT 

As a new trail build, the level of effort will be medium and include hand tool work such as brushing vegetation to clear the trail corridor, digging and refining the new trail, removing duff and earth with picks and pulaskis, and shoveling/raking out rutting. 

 

PLEASE NOTE: Access to the project will be via bike! Be prepared to ride ~4km on gravel/dirt road, including some uphill sections. Volunteers must provide their own bike.

 

PROJECT DATES  

Daytime sessions (9AM-3PM)

Thursday May 25  

Tuesday May 30  

Sunday June 4

Thursday June 22

Tuesday June 6, 13, 20, 27

Tuesday July 4, 11, 18, 25

 

Evening sessions (6-9 PM)

Thursday June 8, 15, 22, 29

Thursday July 6, 13, 20, 27

 

REMINDER: a Kananaskis Conservation Pass is required to park your vehicle at provincial park and public lands sites in Kananaskis and the Bow Valley.  

 

VOLUNTEER AGREEMENT FORM 

If you haven’t yet...you will need to fill out this volunteer agreement waiver prior to working on a trail care event. The form can be filled out once, and will be valid until March 31, 2024. To accelerate the paperwork process, please visit the link above to fill out this form ASAP prior to the trail day. 

 

SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE TO SIGN UP  

  • Sign up closes at 12pm on the day prior to the event. 
  • Confirmed sign-ups will receive a reminder email the day prior to the event with additional information on what to bring and any updates to meeting time/place.
  • If you haven't already signed up as an FKC volunteer, you can do that here