To echo Steve’s remarks, I have never seen such attractive snow and trail conditions at this time of year. The options are endless, and the weather looks wonderful for the near future. Starting today, I’ll be back on the trails regularly! Whoohoo! There’s a new trail report everyone should be aware of…
Emerald Lake & Yoho John the tracksetter has some news for us: “I just finished the Kicking Horse Fire Road, Tally Ho, and the Emerald Connector. Hans did a great job tracking the Emerald Lake trails.” What’s on your agenda for the weekend? A day of skiing in our gorgeous…
Life is good. Soak it all in while you can! When you see all those categories and tags next to the blog post title, you just know it’s going to be a good one. When you see “rant” included in there, how much better could it get? The recent snowfall…
John the tracksetter sent this update a few minutes ago: “Hi Bob; We got a big snowfall at Emerald Lake, on top of groomed trails, all open except the Connector. I’ll head up to L.Louise this afternoon, see whats up and groom Emerald later. Great interview on CBC, Please save a…
Loppet results: Calgary ski club Where else could you finish a race in such a beautiful setting? It was a gorgeous day with good snow conditions yesterday in Lake Louise for the loppet. The lake was frozen and free of slush so we were able to do the initial 2K…
It’s been a while since I could say that. First I want to say thanks to everyone who has sent in comments while I haven’t been out skiing myself. Much appreciated. What’s everyone looking at? Pocaterra trail. Feb 10, 2010 Peter Lougheed Prov Park Today I was in PLPP on the north end trails…
We escaped the extreme cold We were very lucky to have chosen Emerald Lake as our destination yesterday. It was -9 with not a breath of wind. We are at Lake Louise with the Calgary Ski Club on their Winterstart weekend. Yesterday, a group went downhill skiing, another group had downhill…
The best ski trails in the world are trackset Made a quick trip down to PLPP this morning to find lots and lots of new trails ready to ski on. Wheeler(above photo) was one of the only ones without some fresh grooming, but the old tracks were still really good. The temperature…
As previously mentioned, I am co-ordinating a ski trip for beginners/novices/intermediates on Saturday to K-Country. In other words, anyone can participate as we will split into two groups. I’m going to stay with the beginners/novices while Cheryl will take the manic skiers on some more challenging and longer trails in the south…
We were pleasantly surprised by the snow at Emerald Lake and Kicking Horse River today. We didn’t get on the trail ’til 4 pm, but we made the most of it by skiing the Emerald Lake Basin Loop(also known as the Emerald Lake Horse Trail) which was a blast, and the…
