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Emerald Lake

Yoho – still finding new trails

January 2, 2012

We started out the new year with what I consider to be the most scenic, trackset trail in the Rockies. It’s the Emerald Lake horse trail and alluvial fan. Now for the first time ever, we skied on the east side of Emerald Lake which is also trackset. It allows you to complete

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A romantic skiing getaway

December 21, 2011

The Canadian rockies are home to some magnificent historic lodges which retain a lot of their original charm, and we were able to experience the ambience and atmosphere of two of them

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Skiing for three days in a row…

February 10, 2010

It’s been a while since I could say that. First I want to say thanks to everyone who has sent in comments while I haven’t been out skiing myself. Much appreciated. What’s everyone looking at? Pocaterra trail. Feb 10, 2010 Peter Lougheed Prov Park Today I was in PLPP on the north end trails and conditions were great. Pocaterra, [...]

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Happy New Year! Updates…

January 1, 2010

West Bragg Creek Hi Bob, A couple of New Years presents- fresh tracksetting on most of the trails, from the GBCTA, and warm sunny weather with a temperature of – 4 at West Bragg Creek, to ring in the new year. Unfortunately, a visit from the grinch as well- in the form of morons off-roading [...]

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PLPP update

December 11, 2009

The best ski trails in the world are trackset Made a quick trip down to PLPP this morning to find lots and lots of new trails ready to ski on. Wheeler(above photo) was one of the only ones without some fresh grooming, but the old tracks were still really good. The temperature was a pleasant -12, the snow [...]

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Great conditions at Emerald Lake & Yoho

November 26, 2008

We were pleasantly surprised by the snow at Emerald Lake and Kicking Horse River today. See more photos here We didn’t get on the trail ’til 4 pm, but we made the most of it by skiing the Emerald Lake Basin Loop(also known as the Emerald Lake Horse Trail) which was a blast, and the Kicking [...]

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Some new places to ski

November 23, 2008

Canmore Nordic Centre has 900m of man-made snow for skating and classic skiing. It’s amazing they have anything ready, considering the weather, and you don’t have to pay yet. I noticed the Yoho trail report says that the Emerald Lake horse trail has been trackset. That’s one of the most picturesque trails you’ll ever ski on. See archived photos [...]

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