On Tuesday we went for a ski up the Redearth Creek trail – you can keep following it all the way to Egypt Lake, and then around to Sunshine Village if you really want, or to Shadow Lake Lodge, but we just skied along for 5km before turning around. It’s a nice enough little trail, and there was still plenty of coverage – but the last downhill back to the car could be treacherous when icy!
There’s a small network of ski trails about Ribbon Creek, near Kananaskis Village and Nakiska Ski Resort.
They’re track set for classical skiing, and there isn’t really enough room between tracks for skate-skiing.
A nice little set of trails to spend a day exploring, there is quite a lot of up and down – and so some nice views as well. It’s nice to ski somewhere different for a change.
I’m still dreaming of a new mountain-bike, and have been dragging the Moosling through all the local bike stores to look at the 2011 bikes that are arriving. The Giant Anthem W? The Giant Anthem 29er? A Santa Cruz Juliana?
With all the snow and cold weather recently, the trails are still thoroughly covered though, so the pending visit of the Bike Fairy is not yet urgent.
Lots of snow trips in the Chariot, getting the hang of sitting up on his own, Jolly Jumping, belly laughs, swimming lessons and starting “solids”.
Well, this was actually this time last week. But still, I look back fondly on those days. It hovered around -5oC or even warmer, I took the wee Moosling out skiing with me, children ran and played in the streets, the chickens were all laying well, and Christchurch was still in one piece. Now it’s sitting on -17oC or some equally ridiculous temperature and oil wells are on fire in Libya.
