Banff

Beware if you’re skiing Goat creek to Banff

February 19, 2014

The newly trackset Spray river may be tempting you to ski Goat creek and Spray river from Canmore to Banff. You’ll be walking on thin ice.

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Family day in Banff

February 17, 2014

- The Horyn family was enjoying Family Day on the Sundance Canyon trail. – It’s a rare occasion when Brewster creek gets trackset, so today I headed for Banff.

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I didn’t do any skiing for the past two days, but I did have a look at the Spray River trail in Banff today. It appears to have received about 3 cm of new snow. The tracks were skied-in and conditions looked good. The snow temperature was probably around -1 or -2. The above Iphone […]

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Goat creek to Banff

January 27, 2014

There’s only one little problem… Overall, the conditions were pretty good. Good tracks on all the trackset portions, and a reasonably good skier-set track on

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Should be a great day in PLPP

January 23, 2014

Lots of trails were groomed last night in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park(shown in green on the map). The PLPP webcam says the temperature is -7°C at 8 a.m.(which means it’s probably closer to -9 or -10). Goat creek was trackset yesterday to the Goat creek bridge at 7K. Spray river west

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An excellent ski with a few “conditions”

January 21, 2014

We climbed the hill from the Redearth creek parking lot on nice cold snow. My VR45 was gripping well and I didn’t even have to herringbone.

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Lake Louise to Banff loppet 2014

January 20, 2014

-Wax technician Cheryl and SkierBob at the finish line of the Lake Louise to Banff loppet-

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Would you ski on this?

January 15, 2014

We went to Banff for lunch and a dip in the hot springs today. I knew it would be futile to go there to ski. Took a little walk on the Spray river trail

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Great skiing conditions everywhere

January 8, 2014

- The Emerald connector was in great shape – As enjoyable as it is to stay at Emerald Lake Lodge, it’s probably a good

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Grooves in the snow desired by skiers

January 4, 2014

This trail was trackset yesterday, but with 6-8 cm of new snow overnight, the tracksetter was back at it again today.

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Aiming at 2000

December 27, 2013

(2000 posts that is, in case you missed the previous one). I just got back from two days in Yoho. It was only meant to be one, but circumstances allowed me to stay and ski on today’s new tracksetting Thanks for all the trip

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Everyone on Redearth creek reads this blog

December 22, 2013

- John and Susan were enjoying the great conditions on Redearth creek – I met five groups of skiers on Redearth creek today and every one of them was a reader of this blog.

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Goat creek

December 21, 2013

Welcome to the shortest day of the year. I made sure I started early today and was on the trail by 2 pm! The conditions on Goat creek are very good. It was rare to see any pine needles

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Lots of choices

December 19, 2013

- Spray River bridge. The 2 sections were flown in yesterday and the bridge completed today. Photo by Chuck O’Callaghan -

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Nice weekend ahead

December 13, 2013

Maybe too nice? Now that West Bragg and the two Calgary golf courses are trackset and in nice shape, the weather turns warm. I hope conditions stay good for at least tomorrow. Sunday might be a waxless ski day. We received two encouraging

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Spray River is packed

December 13, 2013

- Spray river between 6 – 10K – Chuck gave a detailed Trip Report but this news is worthy of featuring on the home page. Thanks to Chuck for checking this out: BANFF’S BEST KEPT SECRET… UNTIL NOW!

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Redearth creek

December 11, 2013

Nothing could be as exciting as crossing the ice on the Cascade river as Chuck did today(see trip reports), but coming back down Redearth creek might be a close second. Conditions are

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Splendid conditions on Goat creek

December 9, 2013

The snow was a lot faster today than on Saturday, and I made it to the Goat creek bridge in 28 minutes, a distance of 7K but mostly downhill. Net elevation loss is 180 metres.

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The coming week looks promising

December 8, 2013

We’ve endured a blizzard followed by a five-day deep freeze over the past week. The forecast looks downright pleasant after what we’ve been subjected to.

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Goat creek was awesome

December 7, 2013

Until today, we’ve never had tracksetting on the first 900 metres of the Goat creek trail. The initial section of the trail is in Kananaskis country, the remaining portion

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