When I logged on to the Weather Network today, I spotted this viewer photo. These could very well be the three wolves I observed hunting elk a few weeks ago. You can read my posting from Dec 18 Wolves including a photo of their tracks. What’s the warm weather doing to…
The natural-snow trails are skiable at Canmore Are you an optimist, or are you someone who enters a situation with low expectations, hoping for a pleasant surprise? After reading on the trail report that the natural snow trails had been rolled, I set out for the Nordic Centre today…
Update Dec 4: The CNC website states: “Please note there will be very limited public skiing on the weekend due to two events.” The website shows most of the trails will be closed for the weekend. Canmore Nordic Centre. Dec 3, 2009 I received an email yesterday from John in Edmonton…
Oct 13, 2009: The Canmore Nordic Centre website says: Skiing will be available tomorrow (Wed Oct 14th) on a 300m loop of man made snow in the stadium. Oct 14, 2009 Update: Very good conditions on 400 metres in front of the stadium for skating or classic.
How’s this for Oct 9? Hi Bob, I checked out the snow conditions at the Ribbon Creek trails today. There was about 15cm at the elevation of the Nakiska day lodge (1500m elevation). At 1900m elevation, there was 25cm of snow depth and at 2100m elevation, the snow was 40cm…
I’m back in Canmore, hopefully for a couple days. Snowed a fair bit here, I’m guessing about 10 cm. It’s a much colder and powdery snow than we had last weekend. I made it out to the nordic centre this evening and it was in magnificent condition. It had just been…
Hi Bob, I just want to share with you and your readers some information about ski orienteering, which I tried for the first time Sunday March 15 at the Canmore Nordic Centre. Basically, it is similar to foot orienteering where one navigates a course finding various control points in order. …
I heard all the forecasts for 15-20 cm of snow in Calgary last night. We weren’t supposed to get as much here in Canmore, but I can assure you there’s at least 20-25 cm in my driveway. Peter just called me to say the races at Mt. Shark were cancelled…
There was a lot of new snow in PLPP over the past 48 hours. Some tracksetting has been done at the north end. Today I did a loop from Elkwood including Wheeler, Amos, Lynx, Pocaterra, Lodgepole, Meadow. Snow was cold(-5C), air temp was 0. No icy tracks, no sign of deteriorating…
Tessa – ready to ski at Mt Shark Mar 11, 2009 Tessa and I had a great time out at Mt Shark today. The trails had all been trackset and groomed yesterday. The air temp was -12 with sunny skies. In a few places there was some wind-blown snow in the tracks, but nothing more…
