Bill Milne from Wedge Pond

Thanks for all the trip reports today. Nice to see the cougar and wolf tracks in Chuck’s photos. Chuck did an epic 36K yesterday and 29K today. After 24K on Goat Creek/Spray River yesterday, 3K was about all I could handle today.

We missed taking Tessa on her traditional Christmas eve ski this year because it was too cold that day for her, so today we went to Wedge Pond and skied out from there.

Our intention was to ski the Wedge Connector, but after the initial 400 metres on the Bill Milne trail, we saw some weird stuff on the Wedge Connector(see photo). Someone has taken what appears to be a large sled through the fresh snow on the trail. I didn’t see any ski tracks but there were snowshoe tracks. It didn’t look very inviting in any event so we just stayed on the Bill Milne trail and turned around before crossing the highway.

The Bill Milne trail was groomed on Dec 16 but has about 6-8 cm of new snow since then. We followed some pretty good skier-set tracks and had good grip with VR50(0/-4). The air temperature was -3°C. No hazards, just a few pine needles under the fresh snow which were exposed when people snowplowed over them.

The Dog-Age calculator indicates that Tessa in human years would be 72 years old. It’s hard to believe when I see how active, spry and full of energy she is. She seems to be aging much better then I am!

The Live Grooming Report for Ribbon Creek indicates some new grooming in the Kananaskis Village area today. Tracksetter Jeff has made some comments on the Groomer’s reports.

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