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Great Divide

The best xc skiing on earth

November 16, 2011

Conditions at Lake Louise are tremendous. Great Divide, Moraine Lake road and Tramline have excellent grooming, tracks, and cold snow to make for

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Great Divide(1A Hwy) in nice shape

November 13, 2011

I’ll let the pictures tell the story of today’s skiing. I also skied for a short distance on Moraine Lake road and it’s in superb condition. Take note on the photos…they’ve set

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At 5:15 pm on Friday, we had our first trip report posted on the “Trip Reports” page. Thanks to Chuck for getting things started. This is already proving to be a popular page for skiers looking for information from other skiers. Chuck, I hope

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Fantastic conditions today on Moraine Lake road(with video)

November 5, 2011

Video: Watch 1.5K of fantastic downhill gliding on Moraine Lake road today. It looks like skiers will have even better

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Snow update

November 4, 2011

It looks like we got our wish. The Banff trail report has an update for Lake Louise today: Cross-Country Skiing: Lake Louise Area Trails CONDITIONS: First ski report of the season!

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The fallen tree on Lynx

December 11, 2010

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 has created much better conditions. On [...]

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It’s snowing!

December 9, 2010

I’ve got some great news… Lots of new snow in PLPP. At 2 pm today, Elk pass already had about 8 cm of new snow, and it was still snowing quite heavily. Chip’s wish came true, and Pocaterra had about 4 cm of new snow. I would expect the groomer will be out tomorrow. I [...]

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Update from tracksetter at LL

November 26, 2010

Update: Banff trail report shows the Great Divide is now trackset. Here’s the latest from John at Lake Louise: “I drove to Cochrane to pick up a sled this week, was surprised at all the snow! Maybe we need to come over and ski on the east side this weekend. We got a bit more [...]

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Good conditions today at Lake louise

March 17, 2010

Cooler temperatures, some new snow, and fresh grooming has given us a place to ski with good conditions. The air temp this afternoon at the Moraine Lake Road trailhead was -1 and it was snowing lightly. I started out with my waxless skis, not knowing what I was going to encounter. They were probably a [...]

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CNC; Lake Louise; Mt Shark

December 17, 2009

The natural-snow trails are skiable at Canmore Are you an optimist, or are you someone who enters a situation with low expectations, hoping for a pleasant surprise? After reading on the trail report that the natural snow trails had been rolled, I set out for the Nordic Centre today with my rock skis and [...]

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We made the right choice

November 28, 2009

Conditions were just about perfect If you stayed home to mail out your Christmas cards instead of joining us for a fabulous XC ski trip to Lake Louise, well, you’ve got your priorities all messed up. LOL (Glenna are you listening?) We couldn’t have asked for better weather or snow conditions. Andrew had just finished [...]

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Friday night update

November 27, 2009

The snow which we had hoped for in K-Country turned out to be rain. The trails in the north end of the park are in very poor shape. They were rained on, then froze, so there’s an icy crust and lots of pine needles. Even Wheeler, which wasn’t in bad shape two days ago is [...]

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The perfect trail for novice skiers

November 24, 2009

Although the name sounds ominous, you can ski for 7K on the Great Divide(1A Hwy) before you reach a hill of any note. There are some small rises, dips and curves to make it interesting. The trail is wide and ultra-safe and the snow is much softer than you’ll find at places like the Canmore [...]

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Updates: Lake Louise, Redearth Creek, Open House, Trip on Sunday

November 12, 2009

Lake Louise There’s lots to talk about, so let’s get started. After the big snowfall on Tuesday, the trails were in great shape on Wednesday at Lake Louise. Moraine Lake road was groomed and trackset, the Great Divide(1A Hwy) was being worked on during the day. We checked it at 3 pm and John had just finished [...]

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SkiHere.ca is one year old!

November 9, 2009

Update Nov 9: The Great Divide trail(aka 1A Hwy) was groomed and trackset late this afternoon all the way to the Lake O’Hara parking lot. Chip and I are heading up tomorrow to check it out - and I’m taking my bear spray! John the groomer has a warning: “Hi Bob; watch out for the big Grizzly [...]

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