Ski Goat Creek, stop at the Banff Springs for a Scotch, ski back. That’s what Ian and Richard did on Monday. We ran into them as they were about 9K from Banff and on their way back to the Canmore end(that’s a 36K round trip). They seemed pretty happy. But…
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…
Feeling the Love… Estelle from Spain and Roberta from Italy were enjoying a beautiful day on the Spray River trail. Feb 14, 2011 The Spray River west side had been trackset earlier today. I saw from the trail reports that some grooming had been done in PLPP and Ribbon…
This is one of those rare winters where we can say every trail at the Canmore Nordic Centre is in excellent condition. Next time you’re skiing here, make sure you take some of the so-called “minor” trails, many of which are new. I checked out all of the new trails…
Update Jan 15 at 7:27 a.m: No new snow overnight, and not snowing now. If you look at the Canmore Nordic Centre Grooming status map, you can see both Pisten-Bullys are out working the trails. The map is covered with green dots, which means those trails have been groomed overnight. It’s -20…
Can’t get much better than this The above photo is a scene you might never see while skiing Goat Creek. If you’re like me, you’ll be concentrating too hard on the fast downhill ahead of you, trying to control your descent in order to make the turn onto the bridge….
Ecstacy! I was elated to be back skiing on Tyrwhitt today. Groomed and trackset yesterday, it already had a couple cm of fresh snow. A few other skiers had been up here today, so the tracks were skied-in. PLPP has lots of new snow everywhere from the storm that blew…
Spray River in Banff After skiing Redearth Creek yesterday, I went into Banff and did the Spray River loop. I hadn’t yet skied the east side. I can tell you there are a lot of rocks as you come uphill from the golf course. Going up it’s easy to go around …
Nice conditions for Nov, but watch for rocks on the Canmore end I usually review this trail starting at the Canmore end, but I started out at the Banff Springs Hotel yesterday. My goal was to ski up to the Goat Creek trail and check out conditions on the new tracksetting….
A hard day on the ski trails Well, hard to stop skiing, that is. Seriously, folks, it was one of the best days ever. I started out on the Cascade Fire Road around 12:30. The air temp was -8 and it seemed like summer. The snow was still cold enough…
