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…
PLPP Today may have been the best conditions we’ve ever seen on Tyrwhitt and Hydroline. No spring-like conditions here. This was winter – at its very best. It was absolutely fantastic on the south trails of PLPP – Whiskey Jack, Tyrwhitt, Elk Pass, Hydroline, Patterson, Blueberry, Fox Creek and Boulton…
Just returned from an overnight ski to Shadow Lake Lodge(will post an update on that tomorrow). That’s my excuse for being late with these reports… First from Steve Riggs: Hi Bob, Sunday was a fabulous day on the ski trails in PLPP. We skied up Whiskyjack, across Lookout and down the steep…
Something interesting always seems to appear on the ski trail. We skied the Tyrwhitt loop in PLPP today, one of my favourites. Climbing Whiskey Jack(well, not in the above photo; we’re on one of the rare flatter stretches there). Whiskey Jack gains about 200m elevation over 4.3K. Nice views in the above…
Coming soon… Hi Bob, As I reported a while back, Okotoks has started a ski club; called Crystal Ridge Nordic. We had our first general meeting in November of 2010. We selected an executive committee and registered as an official “association” with the Province. We are currently working on a Web Site, purchasing…
(Click on any photo to enlarge it) Six of these seven skiers say skiing is better than shopping on Boxing day. The lone dissenter(lady on the far right with a big smile) was still undecided. Dec 26, 2010 Today was a glorious day to be in the mountains, and far…
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…
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…
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…
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…
