This is my first-ever trip to Canmore, but after the trip to Europe it felt like coming home. When we woke up this morning it was -29C. Canmore got almost a foot of snow a couple of days ago, but it was pretty well mixed with the manmade base by this morning. And it was dry - Canadian Rockies dry. None of this crazy wet-grinds-running-well-in-the-cold-crap. When I tested grinds mid-afternoon ZR1 and C40 were both running well. C44 was a bit off the mark, and Z40 was a little further back. And TF02 was bad - quite bad. Actually, it ran OK on a flat ski, but as soon as the ski rolled onto an edge it stopped short. Tomorrow is a skate sprint. It’s quite cold again tonight. Based on the way things looked today it wouldn’t surprise me to be on something hard and unfluorinated for qualifying in the morning. But we’ve got some good top-coats in the mix and we’ll see what happens for the heats in the afternoon…