A snowfall warning has been issued for most of the SkierBob domain including Calgary and West Bragg Creek. There’s snow in the forecast for the next five days. As I write this at 7 pm, it has just started snowing in Calgary.
Chateau tracksetter Jeff
Feb 2 Update from the Chateau grooming team:
“29cm of fresh snow from Saturday Jan. 30 at 5pm until this morning at 8am, and then another 13cm fell today. We will be several days catching up, thank you for your patience.”
Fairview Loop (#2): Fresh snow, poor condition. We hope to work on this tomorrow Feb. 3.
Shoreline (#4): Sled packed and rolled, Feb. 2, poor condition. We hope to work on this tomorrow Feb. 3.
Lake Trail (#4): Sled packed and rolled, Feb. 2, poor condition. We hope to work on this tomorrow Feb. 3.
Upper Telemark and Peyto Trails (#5): Fresh snow, poor condition.
Feb 2 Parks Canada Tracksetting at Lake Louise:
- Bow River Loop
- Campground Loop
- Pipestone trails
Peter Lougheed Provincial Park
You can now isolate the recently groomed trails on the PLPP trail report. I wasn’t aware of this until Ken Hewitt mentioned it yesterday. We can expect a further 5-10 cm of snow and colder temperatures in PLPP in the next 24 hours. The Mud Lake weather station shows snowfall of 7 cm since 10 am, so I expect the PLPP trails will have a similar amount.
It’s good to know that there’s more detailed information on the grooming in PLPP. What puzzles me is that Amos, Wheeler, and Woolley were last groomed on Jan. 17, while Braille, Lodgepole, and Sinclair have been groomed 3 times since then (Jan. 19, Jan. 26, and Feb. 2). Blueberry, Elk Pass, and Patterson were last groomed on Jan. 20. I thought that there might be more of a regular rotation in the trail grooming, as in past years.
Hi Ray, I’ve forwarded your comment to the person at Alberta Parks who might have an explanation.
The PLPP snowcat has been experiencing mechanical problems in recent weeks. I received this reply from Alberta Parks “We’ve been limping the wounded one along for a couple of weeks until there was space in the shop. Now that we have the borrowed machine, these trails will get done.”