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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Spray River in Banff After skiing Redearth Creek yesterday, I went into Banff and did the Spray River loop. I hadn’t yet skied the east side. I can tell you there are a lot of rocks as you come uphill from the golf course. Going up it’s easy to go around …
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…
This comment just came in from Stephen Vermeulen and should be of interest to a lot of Calgarians who are waiting for Canada Olympic Park’s XC track: “COP’s cross country loop is in fine condition, I skied it on Saturday morning, it was the usual double track set and worked…
Registration has opened for the Lake Louise to Banff Loppet I know a lot of skiers were disappointed last year when they waited too long to register. Being in the National Park, there is a limit of 160 participants. New this year is a FAQ page which will answer almost…
A hard day on the ski trails Well, hard to stop skiing, that is. Seriously, folks, it was one of the best days ever. I started out on the Cascade Fire Road around 12:30. The air temp was -8 and it seemed like summer. The snow was still cold enough…
