We were back on Goat Creek today but starting from the Banff end. It was about as nice a day for skiing as possible with a temperature of -7 and sunny skies. We encountered cougar tracks about 7K from the trailhead, and they appeared off and on for the next…
Goat Creek: What a wonderful surprise This afternoon, we decided to stay close to home and ski at the Canmore Nordic Centre. On our way, we first decided to drive 5K up the hill and check out Goat Creek. There were a few cars in the Goat Creek trailhead parking…
It’s been a few days since I’ve put up a new post, but we’ve been skiing every day. Thanks for the comments and updates in the interim. Working backwards, we skied on Cascade Fire Road yesterday(Sunday). The air temp was -9 and there was no wind. There had been a lot…
Season’s Greetings to all cross country skiers and all our Ski Here! readers. I won’t be updating the blog for a few days, but if you ski somewhere, let us know about it in the comments section below. There’s an embarrassment of riches of trails to ski on right now.
I just received this email: Hello Bob, Just found your site recently. Thanks for putting this together. There was plenty of snow and sunshine at West Bragg this afternoon. -15 never felt so warm. Fresh snow has fallen since the last grooming, so the tracks are more skier-set than machine groomed….
Received these photos and an update from Alf: Hey Bob, As you can see, the K-Country crew has done an exceptional job of grooming the Ribbon Creek trails with their new snowcat. The upper trails like Skogan Pass, Skogan Loop and Sunburst were in fantastic shape and virtually no…
There are a number of attractive options if you want to ski in or near the city right now: The Calgary Ski Club’s website has this to say about Shaganappi Golf Course(posted Dec 18): “Shaganappi is OPEN – Best snow & trail conditions seen since 2000 – Hooray!- There is…
Duane sent in this photo and report on Burstall Pass Alpine toured up to Burstall Pass Tuesday, Dec 16. It was much colder there than in Calgary, albeit sunny, and not windy. There is much more snow than the last visit – especially through the narrow treed areas, but the wind…
The Ribbon Creek/Kananaskis Village area now has a brand new Pisten-Bully grooming machine. Jeff was using it for the first time today. We were on our way to Peter Lougheed Prov Park to see what we could find to ski on today, but stopped at Ribbon Creek along the way. …
I followed these very fresh animal tracks along Redearth Creek Animal tracks on Redearth Creek Dec 16, 2008 Look at that footprint beside my boot. There were two animals, one on each side of the trail. Technically, I guess there were three counting the animal who was wearing the ski boot. See…
