Today was a carbon copy of yesterday, though the powder is now mostly tracked out. Same sun. Same chilly temps. Same lack of wind (mostly). Same crowd (okay, maybe a slightly smaller crowd). A nice day, but a bit better to be cruising the very silky groomers than venturing too far into the boonies.

The hill was reporting 12 cm overnight, and that’s what we found everywhere. Interestingly, it was not deeper (or shallower) anywhere; typically I’ll find deeper stuff up high, or places where it blew in, but not today. It sure looked nice. The challenge was what was underneath. On things that had been groomed recently, you […]

I heard it snowed in Calgary today. Not at Sunshine. Another beautiful blue sky day. A bit of inversion gave -10° in the parking lot, -8° in the village and -5° up top with virtually no wind, but neither the sun nor the temps softened the snow. So it was a “cruise the groomers” day, […]

Another Tooney Thursday means we were at Norquay again, this time on a blue sky day with perfect temps (-2°) and no wind. MUCH busier than last time with the main lot full (by 11 AM) and the overflow lot in use. Norquay hasn’t had snow in a week but with Norquay it’s hard to […]

Follow a weekend of spring temperatures and snow with a cold day and you get: a groomer day. The only way the conditions could have been good today was if (1) the sun came out, and was warm, or (2) it snowed a bunch. I give you the AM on the top of Goat’s Eye. […]