Bernard Cournoyer lived from 1939 until July 2008. For the past twenty years, Bernard promoted the sport of snowmobiling in the Mauricie Region of Quebec Canada. Bernard travelled to all the snowmobile trade shows in the USA to promote his home province, and the excellence in snowmobile trail development in his region. Over the years, he built a snowmobiler clientelle for his own motel, but when he had no accommodations left to rent out, he turned to helping others with his overflow clients. He would explain to the new motel owner, the long list of snowmobiler's needs, and help him to prepare for the winter season. Bernard would help secure the parking lots against snowmobile theft, procure snowmobile trail passes for the motel, and explain that the owners would have to start sending out honest trail and weather reports over the Internet. With no thought to his own pocketbook, Bernard would often go to great lengths to equip the motel owner for the winter. For many years, Bernard also volounteered in many positions on the snowmobile club executive, and did much of the grunt work himself, such as getting rights of passage from land owners, installing proper signage so snowmobilers wouldn't get lost in the snow, and even driving the groomer if needed, to ensure smooth trails. Bernard's dream was to have all the motels and hotels in Quebec, equiped with good information and educated as to the needs of visiting English speaking snowmobilers. His greatest accomplishment, was to communicate the need to secure snowmobiler, trucks, and trailers, from the real threat of snowmobile theft. He also helped me to get new sponsors to support my web site, zenwaiter.com. He helped me in many ways, since we met in 2000, when my life was threatened by a hostile motel owner in St-Zenon, who wanted to kill me for posting honest weather information on the Internet. Bernard's warnings to me may have saved my life. I will greatly miss the man, and I hope by doing this work, that in some small way, I will help preserve the memory of this terrific man, husband, and father. God bless you Bernie. Thanks for everything you did for mefor almost ten years. I miss you buddy. Love you. Zen

Zen Snowmobile Tour 2008 - 2009 Pt 1 - Mossbank to New Brunswick. This video is Part One of my activities for Zen Tour number Nine. In this first segment, I introduce you to the Saskatchewan Zen Shack, and hit the road on September 11th 2008. I go to North Western Ontario, then to New Brunswick and then up to Quebec. I introduce you to all our sponsors and friends that make Zenwaiter possible.

Next in Part 2, I take you to all the snowmobile trade shows that I attended - So do not miss Part 2, comming soon.

Jan 4th 2009; Watch Part 3 of Mark Johnson journey along the famous Pipeline snowmobile trail that runs between St-Joseph-de-Mekinac and Latuque Quebec. It is minus 20 degrees celsius at Beaulieu's Auberge in St-Jean-de-Mekinac north of Gran-Mere, (2.5 hours NE of Montreal) but -30 C on top of the pipeline, then add 35 mph winds, that equals darn cold. We ride a total of about 140 kilometers, but scrap the additional loop to Lac Edouard, because the trail was ungroomed. The last 15 miles that you ride on the Lake, was frozen solid, but had no snow on it. Next trip out, I will wear my down Choko vest and stay warm. Being over dressed is better than freezing.