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Banff

Cascade Valley

March 19, 2012

The tracks are wobbly and beat up, but there’s no shortage of good, cold snow. Like the skiers in the above photo, when descending the big

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Holy cow! Tons of snow in Cascade Valley

March 7, 2012

Thanks to Chuck for the Trip Report and photos of Cascade Valley

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Spray River West

March 6, 2012

I started this blog to assist readers by informing them of the conditions on trails where I’ve skied. It turns out

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Healy Creek; Brewster Creek; Spray River

March 2, 2012

I did some scouting around this afternoon in the UNESCO world heritage site that is on my doorstep, Banff National Park.

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Avalanche risk considerable; Bow Valley Parkway restrictions

March 1, 2012

For our backcountry fanatics, you should take note of the K-Country Avalanche bulletin http://www.avalanche.ca/cac/bulletins/latest/kananaskis Don’t drive here 6 pm – 9 am Again this spring

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Many new choices

February 15, 2012

The recent snowfall has enabled the tracksetters to get back to work. I’m sure the 7 – 12 cm that fell at West Bragg will make for a lot of happy skiers this weekend.

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Goat Creek was marginal

February 3, 2012

I hope this post will save you from wasting your time, or more importantly, from incurring a broken leg

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Good conditions on Redearth Creek

January 31, 2012

The snow was cold at -4, the weather was beautiful with air temp around +1, and no freakin’ wind! The tracks were

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Another dog-friendly ski trail

January 30, 2012

My blog statistics show the Dog-friendly ski trails page has been clicked on 489 times since Jan 1, so I know people are always looking

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Goat Creek day 3

January 28, 2012

You never know how many opportunities you’ll get to ski this marvelous trail, so I’m taking advantage of these good conditions and nice weather to try and get my

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Goat Creek was fantastic; then the snowshoers came

January 27, 2012

We had fantastic weather and wonderful trail conditions today on Goat Creek. Caroline and I skied to the Spray river bridge

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A wonderful surprise

January 26, 2012

After reading Adam’s comment last night about Spray River(aka Goat Creek), I decided to ski there today on the new

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I hope everyone saw Sheila’s trip report. Seeing a wolverine is a very rare and special event which few people experience. Ellie Greenwood saw a lynx run across the trail in front of her during the loppet.

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Lake Louise to Banff 2012

January 23, 2012

The best snow and weather conditions in years greeted us on Sunday morning at Lake Louise for the 71K historic and challenging race to Banff.

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Ribbon Creek/Kananaskis Village trails are trackset

January 21, 2012

Comment from Tracksetter Jeff: “Finally got out on the trails today around Ribbon only managed to do all the Village trails as well as the Ribbon/Link/Kovach and Terrace loop. All trails are groomed and trackset and are back to

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