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We went for drive on the Bow Valley Parkway yesterday. This bull elk was a traffic-stopper. We also saw quite a few Rocky Mountain Bighorn

The Goat Creek/Spray River trail from Canmore to Banff is surprisingly dry. My tires didn’t pick up a speck of mud on this 18.9K trip which is one of my all-time favourites for biking and skiing, especially if I can get

Cascade Valley

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

Spray River West

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

Good conditions on Redearth Creek

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

Goat Creek day 3

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

Goat Creek was fantastic; then the snowshoers came

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

A wonderful surprise

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

Swamp people

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.

71K!!!

Update posted on the Lake Louise to Banff loppet website: “The stars have aligned, snow has fallen and temperatures are rising. The race is on and it’s going all the way to Banff! Race start is still 8am and all other details remain the same.

Category: Banff

What’s everyone looking at?

Goat Creek by bike