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Kananaskis

Tyrwhitt avalanche

April 14, 2012

“Trees up to 14 in thick were broken off and tossed like matchsticks…” We don’t usually see avalanches on the trackset trails in Kananaskis. Kananaskis Public Safety has

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Pocaterra

March 3, 2012

When overseas visitors think of the Canadian Rockies, they usually think of Banff. If they are skiers, they usually have

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No end in sight

February 7, 2012

Caroline and I skied 25K on the north end trails of PLPP today. Every trail was in excellent condition, including Pocaterra near the hut. We started at the Visitor Centre, where the snow temp

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Snow – with a vengeance!

December 30, 2011

Update Dec 31 @ 10 a.m: The Kananaskis trail report shows that the south end trails were groomed and trackset early this morning, including Elk Pass, Blueberry, Hydroline and Patterson. Happy skiing!

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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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Skiing at its best!

December 17, 2010

What a fantastic day! Without a doubt, these were the finest conditions I’ve seen so far, and I had my most enjoyable ski of the season. This must be the best place in the world to ski. We hit the trail around noon on the first machine-set tracks of the season at Pocaterra. The thermometer [...]

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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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Balmy weather on Blueberry Hill

December 5, 2010

Karen Silverberg on Blueberry Hill. Dec 5, 2010 This email just came in from Ben Silverberg: Good evening Bob, My wife Karen and I set out early this morning for PLPP uncertain about the day’s temperature range due to conflicting weather reports. On our arrival it was a frosty -21 degrees under brilliant sunshine. After [...]

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Kananaskis Fire Lookout

December 3, 2010

After spending three tough days of work in Calgary this week, I was itchin’ to get out on the trail. I had my sights set on Whiskey Jack and the Kananaskis Fire Lookout. It was late in the day; the bus full of seniors was already leaving PLPP as I was entering. You know, I think [...]

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Too much to choose from

November 25, 2010

Pocaterra Hut is now open Decisions decisions! What a lucky bunch we XC skiers are. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many trails available to us at this time of year. Now, with Pocaterra hut open, I expect there will be a large contingent of skiers wondering about Pocaterra trail. It’s in surprisingly good [...]

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One last ski(Part 2)

April 3, 2010

After reading Steve’s comment about conditions in PLPP yesterday, we had to go check it out one more time, and we’re glad we did. Considering it’s April, and the warm weather we’ve had, the conditions were great. It was mostly overcast and -1, so the snow is staying cold and the tracks were excellent. I had [...]

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One last ski – and it was great!

March 31, 2010

Elk Pass & Blueberry Hill 6 cm of new snow and fresh tracksetting created some wonderful conditions for what will probably be my last ski of the season. The snow was cold, the tracks were excellent, and I was able to use my waxable skis. There was no slush or soft spots. On a couple of [...]

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Spring skiing today

March 24, 2010

You can still find some pretty good snow The skiing today at Mt Shark was fantastic. I’ll qualify that by saying “it was fantastic if you had waxless skis or klister, or were skating.” Watridge Lake road had been trackset on Monday night. The tracks were perfect for my waxless skis. I had good grip [...]

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We saw it all today

March 18, 2010

New tracks, sun, blue sky, deep snow and blizzard conditions. Starting out on Elk Pass today, we had beautiful grooming and new tracks. There was already about 1 cm of new snow on the trail, but all things considered, we were thrilled to be skiing on some cold snow and good tracks. It started snowing as [...]

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PLPP

March 2, 2010

Snow and cooler temps needed If any of the wax technicians from the National Ski Team are reading this, we need your help:) Trails in Peter Lougheed Prov Park are icy. Slushy if they’re in the sun. It was very difficult getting any kind of grip wax to work properly, and it’s the same on all trails [...]

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