Rocky Mountain Ramblers Association

Eight Ramblers headed out of Moraine Lake parking lot at 10:15 in -4 C weather on a rather icy track. Two on half skins the rest on wax. Initially, more...

It was a great day to get out of the city and start the transition away from skiing. Warm, sunny, and lots of interesting things along the trail in more...

Even though yesterday was the first day of spring, it was a cool start at 11 a.m. with a wind chill of -8.

There was still a fair amount more...

It was a mite chilly (-13C) at the start but there was blue sky, bright sunlight and the climb up WhiskeyJack to warm us up. The snow was quite goo more...

For a number of years I have read reports of this tour that is normally skied clockwise from tyrwhitt through the east elk pass meadows then throug more...

It may have seemed early in the season to hike up Wasootch ridge but there was a very well established trail through the snow up the ridge. The wea more...

It was with a bit of trepidation I called this trip reading the avalanche reports for the last week and not having skied in the Alberta Rockies. Fo more...

Statistics: 13.5 kilometres ( Madeleine's iphone) ; 11.3 kilometres (West Bragg map)

12.3 kilometres ( Brian's GPS) and 294 metre more...

Brutally cold start to the day. High winds out of the west made the -16 c start ugly. Heading straight into the strong wind made my face hurt. Thin more...

Participants: Christine,Kim,Doug,Bob,Margot,Garnet. Six of us had a very good time at Dave Henry-lots of good more...

Machine & fat bike packed trails with soft snow made for an enjoyable 3 hour outing.

Two participants did not even need traction devi more...

Descriptor of the day: Smooth. It remained overcast all day with very light snow falling. Kick and glide was very good as we started counterclockwi more...

It was a rather dreary drive leaving Calgary but by the time we got to the Lake Minnewanka parking lot we had a cloudless sky and bright sun. No wo more...

Nothing could be finer than a guided catered trip. There were 7 Ramblers and 7 non Ramblers on the trip. A Guide Kirsten , assistant guide Les ,two more...

As the old saying goes, early to rise, early to shine. Upon meeting and greeting at the Evan Thomas day use area there was promise of a good day. S more...

Six lively Ramblers headed out from Red Earth Creek trail head at 9:00 with fresh snow falling. Surprising there was some difficulty with wax and a more...

Lots of snow, mild and sunny!

Luckily Ranger Summit trail was packed down by fat bikes and we had a wide trail without ice to walk more...

The tracksetters had done our whole planned route the previous evening so we had an excellent day at Peter Lougheed. It was smooth skiing along Mor more...

Good group, weather and snow.
About -10 C and about 120 cm of snow pack at the start of the upper valley.
Climbing the valley the gro more...

Upon reaching the parking lot there was only one other vehicle there. Quiet on the trail I am thinking, maybe the whole mountain to ourselves. With more...

It was not a good trip. It was a fantastic trip! Wonderful people, incredibly good food and fantastic snow. When the 4th flight of the Bell 407 cam more...

As soon as we stepped on to the trail, we encountered solid ice. Although there were occasional stretches of bare trail, icy was the condition of t more...

Snow flakes fall, as winter calls, and time just seems to fly. With no worries we set out, with icers on, heavy cloud soon giving way to brighter c more...

Eight people were attracted by the promise of spring-like weather for this short hike. The paved trail at the top was mostly ice free, but it becam more...

We had a lovely, social hike with mild weather, good trail conditions and nice views. Due to a navigation error by the coordinator, we did the Deat more...

Another long shot paid off for us as we enjoyed mild (+1-3) temperatures, blue sky day and very little wind on our jaunt on some of the West Bragg more...

Driving along the Trans Canada was fine until we reached Morley Flats where there was a very thick fog which made driving hairy scary. In fact, I n more...

As we stay the course, a wonderful day was enjoyed. Mainly sunny with moderate wind at the higher elevation. A nice lunch break was enjoyed, good more...

After a windy drive it was a little below freezing under cloudy skies at the start of skiing but there was good kick and glide up Tramline. Moraine more...

I took a long shot on the forecast of a Chinook on Friday but the weather paid off for us in spades, giving us calm and sunny conditions and a temp more...

Variability was the menu of the day, we started at -7C under cloud, then sun along Moose Loop, followed by low cloud moving in from the east as the more...

It was surprisingly warm today and sunny until early afternoon. We ascended Vents ridge starting at the road and just a bit west of Prairie creek. more...

A perfect day to prove the advantage of skinned XC skis. Temperature around freezing, and a lot of needles and pine cones on the trails.
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Sulphur Springs loop is always a pleasure no matter how often we have hiked this trail. Pics and stats below:

4 hours, 12 km

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