Steve Riggs was at West Bragg Creek today and sends this photo and report: Iron springs trail at West Bragg Creek. Dec 31, 2010. Photo by Steve Riggs Hi Bob, Superb conditions on New Years Eve afternoon at West Bragg. Noontime temperature of minus 15, warming to minus 9 later…
Bruce Barker from Greater Bragg Creek Trails Association sent this email today (this is a one-time up-to-date trail report to show what you will receive if you are a member of GBCTA): A nice 6 to 7 cm of snow fell on Wed, giving the volunteers with the GBCTA Ski…
Pocaterra trail was in nice condition yesterday and getting better, as a light snowfall was gradually covering the pine needles and debris in the tracks. The temperature was perfect at -5, the snow was still cold enough for wax to work well, as five of us set out from Pocaterra…
Here’s someone who skis even more than I. This is our first update from SkiHere’s Adopt-a-Skier: “I am Molly-Jane Strum and I am a cross country ski racer. I am 12 years old and ski with Canmore Nordic ski club. My coaches are Kathy Davies, Roy Strum, and Phil Wood. …
While growing up on the farm, one of the rituals of spring was picking rocks in the summerfallow fields. Back and forth, dad drove the tractor while my brothers and I picked up anything that could get jammed in the discer blades and threw it on the stoneboat. It was a…
(Click on any photo to enlarge it) Six of these seven skiers say skiing is better than shopping on Boxing day. The lone dissenter(lady on the far right with a big smile) was still undecided. Dec 26, 2010 Today was a glorious day to be in the mountains, and far…
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. Update Dec 24: We skied at Ribbon Creek today – superb conditions. See…
Can I pre-ski the trails? The Lake Louise to Banff Loppet is only one month away. Already there are 133 of a maximum 160 skiers registered for this unique event. It looks like we already have enough snow to do the entire 71K. I wonder if they’d consider holding it this Sunday…
Can’t get much better than this The above photo is a scene you might never see while skiing Goat Creek. If you’re like me, you’ll be concentrating too hard on the fast downhill ahead of you, trying to control your descent in order to make the turn onto the bridge….
We only had an hour before dark to get in a ski, so we checked out Healy Creek for the first time. It was trackset on Sunday, but the snow is still pretty thin and there are numerous rocks to contend with. The Banff Trail report is ambiguous – in one section…
