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PLPP: “best conditions we’ve had this year”
Weekend updates
PLPP – Hydroline, Elk Pass, Blueberry Hill Hi Bob, Lately, we have mostly spent our ski time enjoying the excellent backcountry conditions in the Alberta rockies. For Sunday though, we changed it up for a day of cross-country at PLPP. And what a day it was! Warm, nearly windless, and…
CBC
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…
It’s snowing!
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…
Weekend ski reports
This should be a fantastic weekend for XC skiing. Nice weather, good snow, lots of groomed trails. If you’re out on the trails today, let us know about it. If I wasn’t able to get out skiing, I’d enjoy reading about all those who did. Click on comments or send me an email….
Too much to choose from
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…
Fantastic weekend update
Update Nov 21 at 11 a.m: Kananaskis trail report shows some tracksetting in the Kananaskis Village area last night. Trails include Kovach, Aspen, Terrace, Terrace Link. You could do a nice loop starting on Terrace at the village, up to the lookout on Kovach, and back down those delightful S-turns to…
Ribbon Creek has snow
…and it will be packed shortly We took a drive into K-Country today, wanting to see for ourselves which trails had snow and hoping to see some grooming. The snowfall which happened Monday night and Tuesday must have been an upslope storm, as Ribbon Creek had about 15 cm but…
One last ski(Part 2)
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…