Update Jan 21: Received this detailed report on the Peter Lougheed trails today from John Addicott… . “For those not skiing the LL-Banff Loppet, skiing at PLPP should be outstanding this weekend. Skiing was excellent yesterday in PLPP. Ken and I did a nice loop along Pocaterra, Lynx, Wooley, Meadow,…
(You can see a larger image of the photos by clicking on the actual photo) Ten of us set out from the PLPP Visitor Centre on a beautiful warm day with pretty nice conditions on all the trails which we encountered. Bonus! some fresh grooming and tracksetting occurred last night…
Up to 10 cm new snow If you read the comments on the previous thread, or the PLPP trail report, you’ll discover that the trails in Peter Lougheed Prov Park are no longer icy, but they’re covered with lots of new snow, and in good condition. Here are a couple photos…
New snow – just in time! Update Jan 16: See comments below for the good news. Turns out there was about 10 cm of new snow according to the trail report. At 2 pm in Peter Lougheed Prov Park the trail conditions were much as described on their trail report(icy…
Excellent trail conditions We couldn’t believe how good the snow and trail conditions were at Lake Louise today. The Great Divide had just been groomed and trackset. Moraine Lake Road was excellent. Tramline – check. We even did the Bow River and Campground Loop which was recently trackset and in great…
It doesn’t get any better than this It remains to be seen what the warm weather will do the trails, but so far, it’s still excellent conditions in PLPP in K-Country. Skiing in -2 is much nicer than the freezing cold of -25 which we’ve recently experienced. Arlene, Ray and I…
Superb! We had just left the Boulton Creek trailhead when we bumped into Blaine(far right in photo) and his manic group of skiers at the Whiskey Jack – Moraine junction: Blaine made the excellent video which was posted on here about 10 days ago of skiing in PLPP(if you missd it, click…
Steve Riggs was on the trails yesterday and sends this: “Hi Bob, As has been mentioned, very good conditions skiing the Tyrwhitt loop on Boxing Day, with skier tracks in up to 12 cm new over week-old machine grooming. A bluebird day with a cold start of – 17 at…
The rumours were true! I took that photo on the way to Pocaterra this morning. Looked very inviting. Updated: Ribbon Creek trail report Kananaskis – PLPP We had an enthusiastic group of 13 skiers for the Calgary ski club trip today to Pocaterra. In addition to Pocaterra, we were on Lynx,…
Pocaterra Pocaterra is in nice shape for our daytrip tomorrow. No recent grooming, but the tracks are still good. The snow is cold, so there’s no problem with waxing. Stephen Vermeulen sent this email regarding Pocaterra: “I skied Pocaterra trail from the hut up to the Packers junction and then along Packers…
