2017 – SkierBob.ca

2017

New Year’s eve skiing in K-Country

The trails I did today are all very easy, and offer some spectacular scenery. I did a 7K loop including Evan-Thomas fire road, Wedge Connector, and Bill Milne.

It’s been a “White Eyelash” cold spell

Yesterday Chuck met Bridget from California on Spray River West. A few days ago I took the picture of Santa on Redearth Creek. Santa’s real name is Tomo and she’s from Canmore. If you read Chuck’s trip report, you’ll note that both

Goat Creek(packed) and Spray River(trackset)

Update Dec 30 @ 8:30 pm: I’ve learned from Chuck that Spray River West from Banff to the Spray bridge at 9.9K has been trackset.

Busy day at Canmore Nordic Centre

After seeing few skiers on the trails during this cold spell, it was nice to see the big crowd at the nordic centre today.

Tyrwhitt snow elves

Your imagination can conjure up all sorts of things for the odd shapes which line the trail as you ski up Tyrwhitt from the Pocaterra/Lookout junction.

Santa delivers wonderful conditions on Redearth Creek

I had reached my turnaround point. The return trip is mostly downhill and fast, so I was changing jackets, adding a toque, buff, and mitts, when Santa came skiing

Merry Christmas update

I’ve added all the photos in the Emerald Lake Lodge contest. Hopefully I didn’t miss any, but if you don’t see yours, send me an email and I’ll backtrack and find it. For those who sent two or more photos, I enjoyed seeing them, but I had to

The best Christmas present…

… is new tracksetting on Pocaterra! Excellent conditions on last night’s tracksetting between Lynx and Packers, good conditions between the hut and Lynx.

Pocaterra is trackset

It appears the snowcat mechanical problems have been repaired and a lot of grooming and tracksetting occurred last night in the north end of Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. Canmore Nordic Centre: Here’s what I can see from the

The SkierBob Special

I always referred to this, my all-time favourite, as the Tyrwhitt Loop but Helen renamed it the “SkierBob Special” a few years ago. I see from Helen’s report

Year: 2017