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Canmore Nordic Centre

Grooming at Canmore Nordic Centre

April 15, 2012

Sunday Apr 15 @ 7:40 a.m. The GPS map from the Canmore nordic centre shows that most of the trails have been groomed and presumably trackset overnight. It snowed a lot yesterday

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Overnight improvement

November 20, 2011

That was the most fun I’ve had at the nordic centre this season. With all due respect to Frozen Thunder, I have to say the trails in the stadium area, and above(Olympic and Centennial), with this year’s snow, are in much better condition. I was

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Get ready…

October 4, 2011

There’s lots to be excited about: In addition to this new and improved blog, we’ll be starting off the winter with a fantastic contest where you could win a new pair of Fischer skis. I’ll be posting details at a later date. I’ve noticed that web surfers have been finding this blog by searching for Frozen [...]

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CBC

February 17, 2011

Hello to everyone who heard me on CBC’s Ski Report this morning. The regular host, Paul Karchut, is on holidays so they asked me to fill the time slot with XC information. Pick the three best places to ski this weekend That’s a tough mandate, but I had to limit the choices for the purposes of the time [...]

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Canmore Nordic Centre

December 7, 2010

Beginner skiers The trails on man-made snow at CNC are in excellent condition and there’s lots of them ready. Located next to the daylodge is a 9-lane practice grid which would be a good place for beginner skiers to “find their ski legs.” It’s fairly level, so you won’t need to worry about stopping. If [...]

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Canmore Nordic Centre

November 30, 2010

First Moonlight starlight ski Do you enjoy new experiences? Do you look forward to surprises? Anticipate the unknown? Well then, try skiing in the dark with a cheap headlamp. I checked out the natural snow trails at the CNC late yesterday afternoon. Didn’t get started ’til 4:45 pm. I headed out on Bow trail, took a left [...]

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Weekend ski reports

November 27, 2010

This should be a fantastic weekend for XC skiing. Nice weather, good snow, lots of groomed trails. If you’re out on the trails today, let us know about it. If I wasn’t able to get out skiing, I’d enjoy reading about all those who did. Click on comments or send me an email. Re: Guess the date Nobody [...]

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CNC; Cascade Fire Road; Bill Milne

November 24, 2010

Warmer weather on the way Update Nov 25: Banff Trail and Banff Trail Loop have been trackset It had warmed up to a balmy -18 this afternoon at the Canmore Nordic Centre. Most of the trails near the biathlon range with man-made snow are in excellent shape, groomed for skating and single trackset. If you skied [...]

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Canmore Nordic Centre

November 19, 2010

The best conditions I’ve seen in mid-Nov The Snow Gods made us wait a few extra days this year, but they have rewarded us handsomely for our patience. The conditions on the natural-snow trails at Canmore Nordic Centre are as good or better than I saw them at any time last season. The trail report indicates [...]

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Message from the LL tracksetter

November 19, 2010

John, who does some of the tracksetting at Lake Louise, sends this message: Yes, We tracked Morraine + upper tram yesterday, lots of snow, just touching pavement with poles at bottom, no problem for skating, Parking lots will continue to be a problem, thx for noting the tram line option, messages to L.Louise Parks, via [...]

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Great news for XC skiers!

November 18, 2010

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 had 5-10 cm of new [...]

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Finally some snow :)

November 16, 2010

A few trails have been groomed The state of the trails is immeasurably better than it was yesterday at this time. Canmore Nordic Centre(CNC) has a much-improved Frozen Thunder loop. It’s been extended and the snow conditions are fabulous. Does anyone want to guess who the skier in the photo is? He’s on Canada’s National Team [...]

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Canmore Nordic Centre

November 13, 2010

The most popular place in the Rocky Mountains today Excellent conditions this morning on Frozen Thunder. I didn’t count, but there had to be at least 100 skiers enjoying the good snow. For all the traffic, everyone was being courteous to us slower skiers. I didn’t get run over once. I think everyone is just [...]

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Ski Sales this weekend

October 21, 2010

Update Oct 22: The ski sale was very busy and there’s a very limited inventory remaining. There’s a good selection of skating skis as well as some brand new classic skis(without bindings) priced at $120. Nothing remaining as far as used classic skis or kids’ skis. The lineup to pay stretched around the entire Max Bell arena! The [...]

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Frozen Thunder – the saga continues

October 18, 2010

Frozen thunder was in great shape this morning but it may have been more accurate to call it semi-frozen at 2 pm. Still good and lots of fun, though. I skied on classic skis with klister(Start universal) and it worked well. Cheryl had waxless classic skis, had pretty good grip and was thrilled to be [...]

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