Confederation Golf Course “New tracks this morning. Enjoy the great winter weather!!!” Tim de freitas ****** K-Country The trails around Ribbon Creek and Kananaskis Village were groomed and trackset last night. There are some trails in PLPP which were trackset on Friday night. Check the Kananaskis trail reports. If you…
Avalanche I wasn’t aware of these avalanche deaths until I received this email from Rose: Hi Bob: I read your blog a lot but given the tragedy at PLPP yesterday at Burstall Pass, I think there’s a need to remind skiiers about avalanche risk in the backcountry through this link: Alberta.ca/parks/kananaskis/backcountryreport.asp The…
Great conditions today at Ribbon Creek. My camera stopped working yesterday at West Bragg, so no photos, sorry. The car said it was -7 but it seemed colder than that, even with the sunny sky, so the snow is still in prime condition. The snow temperature at the Ribbon Creek…
Best overall pre-Christmas ski conditions that I can remember I thought that was such a great photo from yesterday that I’ve created a new blog header from it. It was plain to see those guys were having fun and I enjoyed talking to them for a few minutes. Very engaging gentlemen they were. Their…
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…
I’ve got some great news… Lots of new snow in PLPP. At 2 pm today, Elk pass already had about 8 cm of new snow, and it was still snowing quite heavily. Chip’s wish came true, and Pocaterra had about 4 cm of new snow. I would expect the groomer…
We all like to hear reports of the trail conditions. Please leave a comment or send me an email if you were skiing today. The Banff Trail Report shows Goat Creek is now trackset. It was a gorgeous day at Ribbon Creek. I skied there and can tell you the conditions…
Pocaterra Hut is now open Decisions decisions! What a lucky bunch we XC skiers are. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many trails available to us at this time of year. Now, with Pocaterra hut open, I expect there will be a large contingent of skiers wondering about Pocaterra…
Update Nov 21 at 11 a.m: Kananaskis trail report shows some tracksetting in the Kananaskis Village area last night. Trails include Kovach, Aspen, Terrace, Terrace Link. You could do a nice loop starting on Terrace at the village, up to the lookout on Kovach, and back down those delightful S-turns to…
Ski Season is On! It feels great to be skiing in K-Country again I’ve posted some additional photos on Facebook. We headed for K-Country to check out Ribbon Creek this afternoon. Yesterday, I was speculating that we’d see some maintenance on the trails and I was correct, but the packing on Ribbon Creek already…
