Early season – Page 3

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PLPP trails

Elk Pass is in reasonably good early-season condition, as long as you discount the first 200 metres from the trailhead. In fact, the conditions were so nice

Dog-friendly Mount Shark

Dog lovers are always on the lookout for trails where they can ski with their faithful companion. I have a page where I’ve listed the trails

Natalie was enjoying the terrific conditions

Easy to tell it was a holiday for most people when I saw the overflowing parking lots at Lake Louise today. I worked as usual, hitting the trail at Moraine Lake road

More trails open at Canmore Nordic Centre

This has been an early-season dream weekend. Great Divide on new tracks on Friday. Moraine Lake road on excellent tracks and cold snow yesterday. Skiers finding skiable snow

A record-setting day

Update: Here’s a video from yesterday’s ski trip MLR video What a terrific day yesterday! Ten trip reports which covered most of the bases, thanks everyone. It’s nice

Friday night update

It was around 2:30 pm when I stopped at the Moraine Lake road trailhead to find excellent conditions with 4 beautiful tracks(2 outbound and 2 inbound)

More snow and wonderful skiing

Yesterday’s tracksetting on Moraine Lake road already had 8 cm of new snow over top when I arrived at the trailhead around 10:30 a.m. Lucky for me,

Snowing – right on schedule

We’ve had a bonus this year on Moraine Lake road, with 10 days of skiing already in the books, but a good rule of thumb is that we are usually skiing here

Be prepared for tricky waxing on MLR

This comment came in from Cindy Kelly, and although she was at Moraine Lake road yesterday, it still describes the conditions we had today:

Marginal conditions on Elk Pass

If you are like me, enjoying high-risk behavior and lacking good judgement, then you might enjoy Elk pass. Everyone else, stay away.

Category: Early season