The transition from Winter to Spring appears to take as long as you want it to around here. I’ve been on a few great mountain bike rides already this Spring -the trails in Squamish are dry and in great shape, and the temps have been comfortable. But there is plenty of skiing still to be […]

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Race season is over, and as of yesterday there was a 200cm snowpack on the ground at the Environment Canada automated weather station at the Callaghan Valley. The groomers only have contracts through the next two weeks, but there is quite a line-up of camps scheduled right into May, so we’re looking at a long […]

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From a service perspective the Canmore races wrapped up very well. Everybody was happy with skis in the 15K, and the skis were visibly fast in the skate sprint heats. We had a brief period of uncertainty toward the end of the day Friday. We had wrapped up the distance skate day, we’d put base […]

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Click on the pictures for enlargement. These were taken today by Amy and Jesse Heckrodt.
Today and yesterday it didn’t really snow at the Callaghan - at least not much. Pretty much every day in memory before that it has snowed - much. A couple of days ago I went up with Amy and we got […]

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The Callaghan Valley Olympic venue opened to the public today for the first time, hosting a BC Coast Cup competition. The photo is of Jesse Heckrodt (CVTC) en-route to what appeared to be an easy win. It was my second day of skiing up in the valley, and the first at the Olympic […]

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