About half of the 8 km. length of the canal skateway is open. As it worked out
I skated it three times yesterday. In the morning for fun, in the afternoon for world wide sketchcrawl 34 and then last night to accompany my son home from downtown. I must say by then my new skates were chaffing a bit.
I didn't have any companions for the sketchcrawl, except for the 4000 or so people out enjoying the ice. Its always a fun experience with all the colourfulclothing, variety of skates and complete range of ages. I did a sketch of Patterson Creek last summer and realized how unique it must seem in winter to my viewers from warmer countries. The little building has washrooms and a place to change into your skates. We just leave our shoes under the benches and I have never heard of anyone losing them. Access to the actual canal is under the little arched bridge where you have the choice to skate north all the way downtown, or south to Dow's Lake. There are several other change huts along the canal, but many people just use benches out on the open ice, or sit on the snow like the guy in the upper sketch.
How great that you got to do this John. I wanted to do some sort of sketchcrawl activity but I didn't have too much time. I love your sketches of the skaters.
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