Winter Sports Galleries
Cross Country Ski Racing
2009 - Canadian National Cross Country Ski Championships
The 2009 Haywood Ski Nationals - March 7-15, hosted by the Highland Trail Blazers at Highlands Nordic, Duntroon Ontario. For results and event start times, consult Zone4.
Sunday 8Mar2009
The Nordic Highlands crew and volunteers did an amazing job dealing with the challenging conditions prior to the start of the National Team Sprints. By the end of the meet, all recollection of the initial conditions was forgotten.
Team Sprint - Challenge Girls Heat 1 - featuring Heidi Widmer and Stephanie Vetsch.
Team Sprint - Open Men Heat 1 - featuring Phil Widmer and Stefan Kuhn.
2008 - Canadian World Junior & U23 Team Trials
NorAm Cup Series, FIS Regional Cup Series, Teck Cominco Sprints and the World Junior & U23 Team Trials held at Highlands Nordic Cross Country Skiing Centre, Duntroon, Ontario.
Thursday 3Jan2008
Open Men's 20km Pursuit (Classic/Free)
Junior Men's 20km Pursuit (Classic/Free)
Friday 4Jan2008
Sprint Training Day - testing to find the 'fastest' skis, trying out different strategy and blowing out a little nervous energy before the big day.
Saturday 5Jan2008
Sprint Semi-Finals
Sprint Finals
Sprint Awards
Sunday 6Jan2008
Men's 15km Interval Start (Classic)
Women's 15km Interval Start (Classic)
Interval Start Awards
2003 - Canadian National Cross Country Ski Championships
Held at the Highlands Nordic Cross Country Skiing Centre, Duntroon, Ontario.
Women's Sprint Heats - including a few images of Chandra Crawford ... three years before her Olympic Gold performance in Torino.
Men's Sprint Heats - with some spectacular crashes on the challenging downhill turn into the finish straight.
Sprinter Philip Widmer - images of the hard charging Banff Alberta native ... Olympian and Team 2010 sprinter ... early in his career.
Snowboarding
YOU LOOK GOOD - Canada's Premier Slopestyle Series
Qualifiers at Blue Mountain Resort - Saturday a.m. 28Jan2006
Backcountry Skiing
Ontario Powder
A taste of the wild side of skiing Muskoka's backcountry powder. Photographs by Andy Matheson. Skier - yours truly.
X-Country Ski Landscapes in deep Muskoka Powder - February 2006 - Skier Andy Matheson.
Finally, winter arrives in 2006 with pristine powder conditions! Skier Andy Matheson enjoying the stellar conditions in the Pretty River Provincial Park.
Blue Sky February conditions in 2004 - a banner year for powder skiing in Ontario. Skiers Andy Matheson and Chad Campbell.
It snowed almost every day in January 2004, producing DEEP POWDER - a first experience for Andy Matheson.
Spring Conditions
Spectacular warm Spring conditions following a banner snowfall year. Skier Andy Matheson.
Resorts
Blue Mountain Resort, Ontario Canada
Salomon Oasis Ultimate Hook-Up - Ski and Snowboard Demo Day - 28Jan2006 - featuring Salomon Tech Kelly Homes.
Ice Climbing
... coming soon ...