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Cascade Valley

March 19, 2012

The tracks are wobbly and beat up, but there’s no shortage of good, cold snow. Like the skiers in the above photo, when descending the big

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Holy cow! Tons of snow in Cascade Valley

March 7, 2012

Thanks to Chuck for the Trip Report and photos of Cascade Valley

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PLPP: “best conditions we’ve had this year”

January 7, 2012

Thanks to Tony for this update: We “got our butts out there” today (Jan 7th) and were rewarded with the best

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A great day in PLPP

December 16, 2011

Update Dec 17: More tracksetting occurred last night in PLPP. Check the trail report. I did a lot of skiing today in PLPP, most of it on excellent conditions. I started

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Cascade Valley…the conclusion

December 13, 2011

We went back to Cascade Valley to complete the trip which we started yesterday. Perfect weather today with sunny skies, no wind, and a temperature

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Frosty day in Cascade Valley

December 12, 2011

As you already know from Chuck’s trip report and photos, Cascade Valley was trackset today. We surmised that the new snow would result in some grooming, so we

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What’s in your pack?

December 3, 2011

“Got any blister tape!?” Jack blurted as he was coming toward me on Cascade Valley today. I could hear the anxiety and pleading in his voice. Maybe some desperation

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I’ll let Debbie and Dave tell the story of today’s skiing: What a great Saturday afternoon at Elk Pass ! On top of the at least 40 cm of recent snowfall, the trails were freshly track set on Friday night, and the snow

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Cascade Fire Road

April 19, 2011

Hi Bob, Thought I’d go check out Cascade Fireroad today since it was cold enough for some Swix Blue. I was amazed that it is still in good shape and holding up nicely. The road and meadow is still fine, no asphalt and no grass. I ended up skiing all the way to Stoney Cabin. [...]

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Calgary; Cascade Fire Road

April 4, 2011

Hi Bob, Subject: Ski right here! Sometimes you just can’t get to the mountains to ski – and sometimes you don’t need to. With all the new snow in Calgary, I decided to “Ski Here” and put on my skis right behind my garage in the back alley. Then I skied to a local [...]

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It just gets better

February 19, 2011

Cascade Fire Road – B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L By the time I hit the trail at 1:45 pm, it had “warmed” up to -15. It felt a lot milder with the sun shining brightly, no wind, and a big blue sky. The snow was green wax cold. Wonderful new tracks, set yesterday, which were still a little soft and a [...]

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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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Crazy weather

January 16, 2011

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 parks are not only to [...]

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Gliding through the beautiful meadows of Tyrwhitt

December 15, 2010

Ecstacy! I was elated to be back skiing on Tyrwhitt today. Groomed and trackset yesterday, it already had a couple cm of fresh snow. A few other skiers had been up here today, so the tracks were skied-in. PLPP has lots of new snow everywhere from the storm that blew through yesterday. I started out [...]

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First tracks on a brand new trail

December 14, 2010

Lake Louise – buried in snow again today That was quite the storm which blew through today. I was on the highway when it hit, around Redearth Creek. Almost white-out conditions for 20-30 minutes and then…over. The snow and wind stopped and it was calm and beautiful as if nothing happened, except there was now [...]

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