Here are a couple photos from Wednesday when I skied the Spray River(west side). It was in nice shape, but no guarantees what it’s like after two warm days. The tracksetting continued for 9.9K. At that point, you’re basically on the Goat Creek trail which looked like this: There were skier…
Did anyone else enter the SkiTrax Olympic Fantasy Contest? It involved picking the podium finishers from the XC skiing at the Olympics and I’m thrilled to say I finished in 9th place(was tied with 3 others for 6th but the luck of the draw put me in 9th). There were 154…
Lots of fresh snow and great skiing! There was about 5 cm of new snow on Goat Creek from yesterday’s snowfall. Plenty of skiers have been over it, and there are good skier-set tracks. We only had enough time to go as far as the bridge(approx 7K), but I could…
West Bragg Steve Riggs was at West Bragg today. Read the comments below for his report. Shaganappi Golf Course Word has it that Shaganappi will be groomed and trackset today. With any luck, you’ll be able to get an updated trail report later here Calgary Ski Club Shaganappi Goat…
Skiing with the cougars – one on each side Goat Creek was trackset on Tuesday, so I headed out yesterday afternoon to check it out. As you can see in the above photo, I was skiing with momma cougar on one side and baby cougar on the other. Fortunately for everyone,…
Curiosity got the best of me, and I finally had to see for myself what the conditions were on Goat Creek. I set out from the trailhead at Canmore at 2:45 pm, hoping I’d make it to the end, 18K later, before dark. Maybe it wasn’t the most prudent thing…
Just returned from a fabulous day on Goat Creek from the Canmore end. It was trackset this morning. Snow was cold: used VR30 which is rated for -10/-30 but the sun was shining and the ambient temp was around -6. Couldn’t have been better. Even the hill from the parking…
Julie, Marc, and Felix on Goat Creek (See comments below for updates on West Bragg Creek) The recent warm and windy weather is starting to take its toll. Goat Creek was still in pretty good condition but there was wet snow on occasional stretches of the trail which made it difficult to…
Today we skied some trails in PLPP(Peter Lougheed Prov Park) in Kananaskis Country, many of which had just been trackset for the first time on Friday. The parking lots at Pocaterra and the PLPP visitor centre were packed with vehicles. Hi to Carol and Katie at the PLPP visitor centre….
We were back on Goat Creek today but starting from the Banff end. It was about as nice a day for skiing as possible with a temperature of -7 and sunny skies. We encountered cougar tracks about 7K from the trailhead, and they appeared off and on for the next…
