Patience pays off

I was sure as soon as I wrote a post about the warm (said half jokingly) weather delaying the opening of the Rideau Canal skateway, it would open merely to spite my words.

Low and behold – open for business while Ottawa enjoys temperatures hovering around freezing. The NCC reported the ice conditions to be fair to good at 7:18 this morning, so now at 8:30 I imagine not much has changed.

The Canal is open from the Mackenzie-King Bridge to the Bank Street bridge, opening up 4.3 kilometres of skating surface.

This year marks the 40th season skating has been organized on the Canal. As a new edition to Ottawa, I was surprised to find out this was not a century-old tradition. According to the Citizen the red tape involved in getting the ice groomed made a lot of people in 1971 doubt it would actually happen.

Luckily, it did. Decades later the joy of open-ice skating is still there and likely never to grow old.

image courtesy of Ottawa Citizen

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   fran/john c. said:

   Great information on Rideau Canal skating. I hope we can skate this year. Keep writing on this information.

   Posted at 12:30 PM, on January 27 2010

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