Banff

Sundance and Healy creek

November 22, 2013

Sundance canyon offers unparallelled scenery but the trail can have quite variable conditions. After skiing 2.4K you’ll come to the Healy creek

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End of the trail

November 21, 2013

- At the end of Terrace trail, skiers stare in anguish at the insurmountable barrier of Ribbon creek - Hmmm…it could be an appropriate title for the last post

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More trails being trackset daily

November 20, 2013

Update Nov 21: Canmore Nordic Centre The popular natural-snow trails, Bow, Meadowview, and Banff(beyond Mine Meadow) have been

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“Thanks for catching this Bob – the Goat Creek information is indeed a bit confusing. We have updated the page that will hopefully clarify some of what you mention. At this point tracksetting is scheduled for the Spray East and West

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What trails will be open in Banff?

November 19, 2013

Update Nov 20: Banff Trail Report indicates that Sundance Canyon and Healy Creek have been trackset. Access only from the Cave and Basin. ****** Just found this from Banff National Park. It’s very confusing.

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Moraine Lake and Flint’s Park

March 26, 2013

If you haven’t checked the photos on Chuck’s trip reports, you’re missing some spectacular sights. MORAINE LAKE Perfectly groomed to the viewpoint and

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Cascade Valley

March 18, 2013

It was -4°C at Lake Minnewanka at 2:30 pm with about 6 – 8 cm of new snow on the Cascade Valley trail. There were decent skier-set tracks and VR45(-2/-8) was giving excellent grip.

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Spring skiing

March 9, 2013

To repeat something I’ve already heard today on the trip reports, “Fabulous! Awesome!” Goat creek received more snow and was trackset again

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Bigfoot spotted in Banff

March 7, 2013

Now that was fun!! I skied Goat creek and Spray river east yesterday. Excellent snow and fantastic tracks from the Goat creek trailhead to the Goat creek bridge. Just the absolute best.

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Cascade Valley

March 5, 2013

As I started up the big hill at the beginning of the Cascade Valley trail, my wax(VR45) didn’t give much grip in the areas where the trail was sun

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Excellent skiing on Goat creek and Spray river

February 19, 2013

As you’ve already read from Helen, conditions on Goat creek were wonderful. Chuck reported the new tracksetting yesterday and I couldn’t

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Gourmet dining in the backcountry

February 10, 2013

Did you hear the one about the backcountry skier who stowed a case of 24 beer(in bottles, no less) in his backpack? I heard all about it this weekend while

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Goat creek scouting report

February 7, 2013

This is one of my all-time favourite trails, and I’m reluctant to ski it when conditions are poor. When it’s good, it’s fantastic, but when conditions

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A beautiful ski day in Banff National Park

January 28, 2013

Redearth creek to Shadow Lake Lodge If the weather stays cool, the trail to Shadow Lake Lodge should be in great shape for their opening in 10 days. It was fantastic

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Bill Milne trail in Kananaskis

January 25, 2013

Tessa the springer spaniel, my friend Ruth and I headed to Kananaskis to check out the freshly groomed Bill Milne trail today. It was snowing lightly, and the

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Goat creek and Spray river

January 12, 2013

Greg beat me to it, but I will share some details and photos of my wonderful ski trip on Goat creek and Spray river west, one-way from Canmore to Banff.

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Confused about the location of Cascade Fire road

January 7, 2013

(Click on photos for a larger image) I’m posting this email from Meg because it’s the second occasion where we’ve had someone uncertain about the location of Cascade Fire road. To make things even more confusing,

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How long can this last?

January 1, 2013

The conditions we’ve had on Goat creek and Spray river are something to smile about As Jan said in her Trip Report today, it was a spectacular holiday season for x-c skiing.

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Cougar and wolf

December 28, 2012

- Sundance Lodge is at the end of the Brewster creek groomed ski trail – A cougar was spotted today on Healy creek by Doug Connery. I had met Doug descending the Brewster creek trail as I was going up.

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We’re zoned in

December 27, 2012

- Exceptionally good conditions on Spray river and Goat creek – Can you ski anywhere in the mountains right now where conditions aren’t great? Every day I go to a different trail and they’re all terrific.

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