With the groomers reporting 15 cm of new "Champagne powder" covering the tracks on most trails and their guessing of up to 50 cm new on Blueberry, we changed our route to the grooming they did on Saturday night. It was great! After a bit of an icy drive on Highway 40, we arrived in the snow covered Boulton parking lot under sunny skies and -14C, although it felt warmer in the almost-spring sunshine. Our route took us up WhiskeyJack where we had a snack under thin cloud, but there were still some views:

Gap Mountain in the mist

Pocaterra had been trackset also, so we headed north and enjoyed the silky smooth long run to the open meadow for a pleasant lunch stop. From there Lynx had not been groomed but the skier tracks through the new snow were fine:


Snow plastered trees along Lynx trail

Our Canmore contingent took the shorter route back to Boulton as one of them had to be back early, while the rest added on a couple of kilometres via Amos & Wheeler trail:


snowy Mount Wintour with hints of blue sky

They were ungroomed but a few people had made earlier tracks. We had time for a group picture:


Some of the group near the end of the day: Carmie, Rosanne, Anne, Philip & Barb

Back at Boulton it was -5C and the highways crew had turned the icy road into a sloppy surface for the drive back.

Thanks to the participants who joined me on the time change day for another superb ski in Peter Lougheed Park: Rosanne, Philip, Ron C/S/P, Barbara, Carmie, Clifton, Anne, Evan, Fiona.

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