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Onion Lake Ski Trails
A low timber cabin with warmly lit windows standing in deep snow among tall pines at dusk, with ski tracks leading to the door
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Northwest British Columbia · Onion Lake Ski Trails

Between Terrace
and Kitimat.

The Snow Valley Nordic Ski Club is a non-profit run entirely by volunteers. It keeps the Onion Lake Ski Trails groomed for classic and skate, with snowshoe and fat bike trails of their own.

Read from the live site, 30 July 2026

The front page is still inviting people to a late March ski.

On the home page today

“The Rental Shed will be open this weekend! Saturday, March 28 and Sunday, March 29”

“Get out and enjoy a late March ski!!”

That banner is 4 months old and it is the first thing anyone sees. The pass on sale beneath it is the 2025-2026 one.

What the club has actually planned

  • October 15 Membership registration opens
  • November 8 Work party at Onion Lake
  • November 8 Ski swap
  • November 13 AGM

All four dates are already published further down the same site. The information is there — it is just underneath something from last winter.

None of this is a criticism of the people running it. A club staffed entirely by volunteers keeps a website current by somebody remembering to, and in March everybody is skiing.

What the top of the page could say instead

From October 15

Memberships for the coming season

One line, one button, and a date that retires itself when the season turns.

November 8

Work party at Onion Lake

November 8

Ski swap

November 13

AGM

Those dates are the club’s own. In a live build they would sit in one short list, so the banner changes the day the season does rather than the day someone notices.

Rental shed

Rates exactly as the club publishes them.

Complete ski set skis, poles, boots $20
Skis only $10
Boots only $10
Poles only $5
Snowshoes $10
  • Rates are per day, and gear must be back by 4 p.m.
  • Cash or cheque only — no debit or credit at the shed.

On the trails

Onion Lake Ski Trails

Groomed for classic and skate, roughly halfway between Terrace and Kitimat.

Snowshoe and fat bike

Their own marked trails, so nobody is sharing a track that was not set for them.

The Moose Hut

Bookable through the club.

Rental shed

Skis, boots, poles and snowshoes, staffed by volunteers at weekends.

Lessons

Run by the club.

Trail conditions

Posted through Nordic Pulse for grooming updates.

The club’s trail rules

  • No snowshoeing on the ski trails.
  • No skiing on the snowshoe trails.
  • Dogs on the Doggy Trail only.

Reaching the club

All published by the club. This concept adds nothing they have not put out themselves.

Email

snowvalleynordic@gmail.com

Phone

250-615-0178

Post

Box 404, Kitimat, BC V8C 2M4