I love the clouds and the colours of the sky while driving up.
It was the coldest day yet, and I think colder than all the days last year. I started at Pocaterra in Kananaskis with -18 °C and when I returned in the afternoon it was -10 °C.
The view above is up the trail to Blueberry Hill. I stopped here for a brief snack and water and the usual visitors were there making sure no crumbs were left on the snow!
Snowing in Calgary but nice in Canmore with a few sunny breaks.
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Still warm, but lots of new snow. Not all was trackset, but enjoyable to be outside! I had an early start as I had to get home for Janaki’s voice lesson.
[sgpx gpx=”/wp-content/uploads/gpx/20151204.gpx”]Ironically it’s snowing too much. Looking forward to Friday then to ski. So I spontaneously decided to donate.
I arrived early and it was warmer than expected: plus 5 and icy. So I put klister on for grip. Well, klister worked great except there was a fair bit of debris, pine needles and some cones in the track. At one point I had to stop and scrap off a thick layer of needles on the ski bottom. So then there was no grip. I double poled and skated back. Actually the skating was fun, but hard to do on non-skating boots and with shorter poles.
So it was a short day of skiing but the espresso on the way home was good!
So the potential option is get waxless skis or skating equipment of just hope it stays cold.
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