It sounded as if the ski trails were not too busy yesterday. The traffic gets spread around when there are 17 areas with groomed trails on which to ski. Paul and Nancy on the Bow River Loop: “Only four other skiers out on these trails.” Barb B in Yoho: “only…
This blog post will be of more interest to my readers who live north of Calgary. We received a couple Groomer’s Reports from Eric at Crimson Lake provincial park. I had never heard of this place before, so I asked Eric to send some additional information and photos.
How did Steve get the above photo without the power lines being visible? Read Steve’s trip report to discover how he avoided the Screamer’s thin snow while descending. Dec 13, 2019 Hello, all you lucky skiers within the SkierBob realm.
I received the below email from Shabu. He’s looking for advice on the West Bragg Creek trails:
Update Dec 13: Mount Shark… “Watridge Lake trail was groomed and trackset from the upper parking/trailhead to the Spray river all remaining trails were machine groomed only.” The grooming at Mt Shark includes the 15K Green trail.
The Strathmore golf course has been roller-packed. See video at the bottom of this update. The list of places where I can ski is growing faster than I can keep up with. What an excellent early season this is shaping up to be.
Dec 8 @ 2:30 pm: Update from Groomer Jeff at West Bragg Creek: “Remarkably we got more snow in West Bragg Saturday night! 5-7 cm has been groomed and track set on a number of trails. Heavy skier volume has interrupted grooming which will commence again tonight. Expect soft, slow…
The south end trails in PLPP were trackset yesterday including Elk Pass, Blueberry Hill, Hydroline, and Patterson. According to Mallory’s early morning report, there will be 5 cm of fresh snow on top of the grooming and it’s still snowing. Telephone Loop at West Bragg Creek has been trackset.
On Dec 5, 2011, I arrived at the Ribbon Creek trailhead to find Ross and Jurgen who had just finished skiing on the first tracksetting of the winter. Going back even further, on this date in 2008, Steve Riggs left his first ever trail report. This blog had been in…
Dec 4, 2019 The Sandy McNabb Live Grooming Report shows most of the trails have been groomed. No indication whether they are trackset.
