1944-1945 Year Book - the Gatineau Valley Historical Society

Ottawa Ski Club Year Book 1944-45 43
Night Riders week-end Diary
SAT. 28 OCT. 44
Old man weather acted pretty
grumpy all morning. Kept
threatening rain or snow, tried
a little of each but couldn't
make up his mind. By late
afternoon he gave up in disgust
and drove his heavy gr·ey clouds
to new pastures with a strong
north-wester clearing the skies
and letting the sun in for the
few remaining moments of daylight
to suck up some of yesterday's
rain.
The N.R.s turned out early in
almost full force. John Clifford
and Bill Irving coming up at
eight-thirty a.m. with their
cars fiUed to capacity. I drove
in the afternoon with Clarence
Fuller and Fred Hannah. Stu
Parsons and Fred Richardson
the only two missing were out of
town. Elmer CaiSse! had his
regular gang of Jim Moore, Ron
Carwardine and Alan Richardson
with him at Pink Lake.
Work concentrated chieflv on
the new bridge at the foo"t of
. Mort's Hill which has been wid-
by Fred Dixon
ened to slightly ov·er sixty feet.
AJbout eight more trees were removed
stumps and all by the
much simpler method of cutting
all the ma:in roots, tying the
block and tackle high up in the
tree, hitching Prince, the new
O.S.C. acquisition, and saying
"Gee Up". Simple isn't it, compared
to the old BP (before
Prince) days. While the boys
are busy grubbing and cutting
roots of new trees for removal,
Prince is kept busy ·earning his
keep hauling · half-ton boulders
down the creek into position in
the new bridge.
· We got Dick, one of the workmen
emp1oyed on the lodge construction,
to blast one big boulder
that was too large to be removed
in one chunk, and also remove
two particularly nasty
stumps, thereby saving ourselves
hours of hard grubbing.
John Clifford and Phil Botts
were cooks in the Southam
lodge this week end and whipped
up a good 'hot supper of
soup, roasted potatoes, oven-
Our cook, Emile Danjar,
in Southern Lodge.
Elmer Cassell sawing planks on
Great Divide Bridge.