Snow everywhere!

Update Jan 11 @ 9:00 a.m. Spray lakes road will be closed today for four hours beginning at 11 a.m. for avalanche control. Barabara gave us a heads-up on this last night. All the trails at Mt Shark were trackset last night. The Banff

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Tuesday in PLPP

Update: See comments for an update from Jody re: Mt Shark We skied every freshly groomed trail in PLPP yesterday. It meant retracing our steps on a few K, but the tracks were perfect and the snow was, well, not bad. If you had waxless skis, as we did. Whenever…

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Mt Shark

Beautiful conditions, spectacular scenery The tracks at Mt Shark were in perfect shape from last night’s grooming. Watridge Lake Road is groomed and trackset all the way to the Spray River bridge. My red Toko was gripping well, Cheryl used VR55. In past years, the grooming would end at the…

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Canmore Nordic Centre

Update: Check comments for the grooming update from Jody. With all the posts I’ve been putting up, I almost forgot….I took a quick spin around the nordic centre yesterday. We had about 5 cm of snow around 9 a.m. in the morning, so it helped where the tracks were extremely…

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Elk Lakes; Mt Shark; Pipestone

With spring here, it is more important than ever for readers to share information on trail conditions. It could save someone from a frustrating ski experience. That was my original purpose in starting this blog until it morphed into its present monstrosity. Some excellent updates here… Elk Lakes cabin. Mar 21, 2011….

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