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My last ski of the year (today) but others may be interested to head out tomorrow. It will be more crispy, with the stiffer frost, so lace your boots uber tight an fly along with double poling then eventually skate striding when the surface softens a bit. Best starting point is from the Stables parking lot, head out on the Bluestem – using…[Read more]

So, I ventured out to the park April 29,about 10:30 am to determine if the postings of dlivingston were accurate. I started at the Chickadee trail head, and went east to the crossroads. The track was doable with minimal hiker tracks. At the crossroads I noted that the trail back to the stables parking lot looked as good as what I had just skied…[Read more]

So, I was delighted to read dl’s report: I would have put money on that skiing was. over for this season. I may have to pull my gear out to set an all time new record for length of the ski season.
Speaking of gear, as I operate on the trailing edge of technology using 3 pin stuff, does anybody have a pair of boots in decent shape size 45 or 46…[Read more]

Most ski trails are still in good to very good condition and there is even remnants of the Monday night dusting of snow ( 1-2cm) which did a wonderful job of filling in the icy tracks.
Avoid west Bluestem (done in by a group of bicyclers) and Chickadee (now a hiking trail).
Note: mornings, super early, provides the best skiing and does the least…[Read more]

I did reach out to Kathleen Brown, BHP Park manager, about the BHP groomer, and she said: “Thank you for your email and reaching out. You are correct the groomer did break down toward the end of the season and we are working on having it repaired. Unfortunately it isn’t as easy of a fix that we had hoped but I can tell you we have been trying v…[Read more]

Long-time lurker, first-time poster! I had to create an account to thank the people who broke in the trails at BHP over the weekend. I didn’t get to ski barely at all this winter thanks to working almost every weekend from jan-march, but because of your generosity of spirit I had a glorious goodbye to the ski season yesterday. At 430PM I did the…[Read more]

In case anyone wants an ultra late season ski, we did sandilands tonight. Yellow parking lot to the old hur and back on the green (6km return) . Skier tracked, lots of snow. Nice to be able to ski late in the evening with the sun setting so late. Have to park on the road, sime atv sign but si far they’ve left that section of trail alone.

From Corey Mohr on Monday:
We skied classic and skate skied Sunday morning on the west side of Camp Morton. It was recently groomed and in great shape, firm and fast. It is about a 6.5 km out and back. I give credit to the Gimli ski club for grooming and someone local said they will likely groom again. Lots of snow there and it’s holding up. When…[Read more]

It was optimistic to hope that the province would’ve groomed Grand Beach, or even plowed the road to the trailhead. A single track went out-and-back up Blueberry, not sure where to. And a couple of snowshoers. Great snow cover. Such a shame the province can’t do better with these trails.

From Andy Dwilow on Sunday morning:
Saturday afternoon. Twin Towers, Matoo, and Jackrabbit beautifully groomed for skate and classic. Add blue sky, warm temp, and amazing scenery – what a day!

I echo Kevin’s comments about ski width; they definitely would have an advantage with wider skis. However, we still conquered Blue Stem and had a great workout. The trail was a mix of soft, crunchy snow to crunchy ice with perfect spots occasionally and some boot drag on the high walls with marshmallow snow polling. The conditions are excellent to…[Read more]

From Lynne Mitchell-Pedersen on Saturday evening:
Six of us had a glorious day.
We wish to thank from our hearts all the wonderful folks who made those trails for us. We are an older crowd and could not have skied without the broken trails. So, a big, ‘Thank you!’bless you all!

Saturday afternoon, -5° and sunny.
We skied on Aspen from the Chickadee trailhead to the inbound/outbound Aspen/Bluestem junction (1K from the stables), Bluestem to the tower, the 3.5K skier-tracked Esker loop back to the tower, Chickadee return to Aspen, west Aspen U to the Chickadee trailhead. The skier-made tracks were all very good.…[Read more]

We classic skied at Shannondale today. Arrived around 11AM with sunny skies and approx-7C. We used Skin skis. Trails were freshly groomed. Grooming was well done as per the norm from Super Dave and Gord. I think there was actually more than 5 km of groomed classic track. We skied over 20km and didn’t want to stop.
Our friends were skate s…[Read more]

It was a brilliant ski today, my first time at Wildwood. I am told that the skier groomed trails do not follow the usual routes, but I did not get lost. Good times, and the snow was fine!