Nordic Pulse

Good morning from the CNC! It's going to be a great day to ski today; with temperatures of -1 early this morning and forcasted highs of +6 this afternoon. Trails including Banff Trail, Banff Loop, and Olympic were groomed overnight. Saftey note: with the warm weather we are ge...

Skate lanes were refreshed in Goldbar. Classic tracks were refreshed on Wednesday and Thursday in most areas and are still holding up well with a few icy spots. There is some debris on the trails where the tree cover is heavy.  With the warmer temperatu...

The trails held up surprisingly well today as the skies were cloudy which held back the sun. Tracks are showing grass in the normal thin spots on yellow, purple but not in many places and easily avoided. Tracks are still in great shape on 95% of the trails. They will be hard, ...

Trails were groomed today by the snow cat. They are all in great condition. 

Please note, all trails groomed, but only certain trails for track set due to the upcoming Loppet tomorrow. All snowshoe and dog trails groomed. Haul groomed and track set from the Tecumseh parking lot. Goodluck to all participants tomorrow and have a great weekend!

The St Paul golf course has been groomed and tracked on the front and back nine of the course. Trails are in excellent condition. Jackrabbit loops near the Tin Cup have also been tracked . 🌡 Temperatures are still a little cool, dress accordingly. Enjoy your ski ⛷️.

The grooming and tracksetting that was done yesterday is excellent in some place and terrible in others. There was a lot of debris blown off by the strong winds, that was then covered by the snow, as well as numerous trees across the trails. There are several places that the g...

February 21, 2025 Ferguson Hill Road was groomed and trackset .  Conditions are fair.  Beware of drifts. Murray Hill Road, from the Horseshoe Canyon Viewpoint to the Golf Course Road,  was groomed and trackset.  Conditions are good but may not...

All ski trails were groomed today including all skate lanes and Classic Track. With warmer weather forcasted, conditions may become softer, but still, trails remain in excellent condition. Small debris on some portions of trails from tree buds and small branches. Trails will b...

Skate lanes refreshed. 

Feb 21st- Bill Milne and Wedge Connector groomed and trackset this AM with temperatures a few degrees below zero after 2 or 3 cms new snow. Bill Milne trackset right to the large ice flow /  lake that will turn skiers around. A few low sp...

All trails have been re-dragged and scraped this morning.  Skate lanes are in good to very good condition and the classic tracks are very solid and in good to very good condition.  

Feb 21st: It's Cookie Race weekend!  Tyrwhitt and Elk Pass were trackset for the Cookie Race happening on Saturday, with the remaining race trails being groomed on Friday night. Use extra caution, especially if skiing against race directi...

Feb 15 Update:  Shared fat bike/snowshoe trails: Both the shared green and blue fat bike /snowshoe trail systems were Bächler packed Friday afternoon. The snow because it is so cold is very dry and it may not bond well to hard...

Trails are groomed and classic track is available today.

Feb 20th  Grooming took place at Mt.Shark on Wednesday night with around 1 to 2cm's of new snow since last weeks grooming.  Ursa Major and Hercules continue to have some exposed dirt and rock although much less then previous weeks thanks to the recen...

Side X side tracks lower valley entered off bear to squirrel then wolf trail up hill to wolf lower trail entry.  These tracks damaged the trail requiring repairs to top of base.  Additional tracks off deer onto upper wolf but not too damaging.

Dean and Dan were out this evening and did skate lane Reno on Mtn Rd, East Crystal, Sundog, West Crystal, Middle Crystal and links. We were unable to do second passes in the links due to a dead sled which had to be towed back to base.  Have good sking

Camp#29 is great.

All trails have been groomed today and 80% had enough snow to trackset  Snow is still extremely thin at the top of Pine Ridge loop as well as balsam, neither trail is recommended two small loops inside the Sandy  McNabb Campground on the road have been ...

All tracked and groomed this morning.  Everything looks good to excellent. Snowshoe trails were packed with snowmobile. Dont let cold temps keep you away, it was sooo beautiful out there this morning. Happy skiing.

Crew was on the trails today packing the recent snow. No tracks set at this time as sticks and leaves were coming to the surface. Still need a little more snow in the treed areas.

Trails are freshly groomed and in great shape.

All trails were groomer packed today. We had received approximately 20 cms since the last grooming day so most of the sporadic thin spots existing under the large conifers are fairly well covered now. Temperatures are looking to climb in the next few days with the weekend look...

Regular volunteer-based grooming on over 50km of trails, accessible from the Jasper townsite, will continue through the winter season as conditions allow.  Want to support this project and flat-packed trails in Jasper National Park? Click the desktop button above ...