Mister Ian's Weblog

Category: Recreation

  • Skating & Shooting at Glendale Rink

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  • Short and quick exercise at Glendale Hockey Rink

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    Fortunately, the Chinook hasn’t killed the ice and it will be cooler after today. It was actually too bumpy for messing with the puck, so I skated laps, doing a few intervals. [sgpx gpx=”/wp-content/uploads/gpx/Glendale.gpx”]

  • First ski day of the year

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    My first impression coming from Calgary was, where’s all the snow? I arrived early, by 9:30, and was the third car in the Elk Pass parking lot. When I returned the lot was mostly full. Up Elk Pass, skier set track, packed underneath. Solid snow cover. Tyrwhitt, skier set track, a bit rough. Lots of…

  • Chinook Pineageddon

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    Chinooking like crazy. We started early so managed to beat the major snowpack obliteration and wind. [sgpx gpx=”/wp-content/uploads/gpx/20160205.gpx”]

  • Happiness at PLPP

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    After some warm weather fortunately it snowed to cover the really hard spots. Mostly skied on good tracks with some fresh snow. Elk Pass was a skier track mostly due to all the new snow. [sgpx gpx=”/wp-content/uploads/gpx/20160131.gpx”]

  • Warm Ski Day 18 Canmore Nordic Centre

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    Super warm, with lots of humidity as the cloud cover came in. Grip and glide were challenging as the snow got warmer as the day went on with above zero temperatures all day. At lest we got in over 30 km. [sgpx gpx=”/wp-content/uploads/gpx/20160122.gpx”]