Sunny and wonderful temperatures all above -5. All smiles despite the bits of crud and ice.
John just refreshed trails at Emerald and on the Connector this afternoon. Graded the crud out of ’em. He’s off to Baja for a month with a fistful of Helen Read’s cookies.
Ski ya later John!

We had a bit of + 1 temperatures late Tuesday afternoon and the trees did some weeping onto the trails—which created some icy sections and needles, branches….. AVOID the Horse TRAIL at Emerald Lake. There is a ski set track on the lake to access the FAN(beyond the usual skidoo track to get to the Horse Trail).
The Connector track is really quite good, a bit faster with small sections of crusty stuff from the trees. We recommend skiing on WIDE trails/roads that are NOT affected by tree crud. The Tally-Ho to the Natural Bridge is great. The Kicking Horse Fire road is nicely ski set and should be fine. The tree falling project is still happening at the Natural Bridge so parking is again an issue……park on the side of the road as before —when they did not have the parking lot ploughed. The trail is open!
I guess we have to pay for that beautiful weather and sunshine somehow!!

At Emerald Lake, Meet at the boathouse(ski house)
Nice mild weather, should be lovely.

Yes skiers—you can now come to Emerald Lake and to the Natural Bridge and actually be able to park your car safely while you ski. The grater and big loader was out today and moved tons of snow.
We also had a groomer find the Alluvial Fan again—he grated the Emerald Lake trails and also the Connector. He set a track on the Connector to the Nat. Bridge. As far as I know—no track at Emerald yet —just packing(which is great in ALL that snow). We got a break in the weather just in time to enjoy the close to full moon and maybe some sun too.
This Thursday at 8 pm is the MOON LIGHT SKI at Emerald. Skee you there.

Yes—another foot of snow! And 8 trees down on the Horse Trail! which our back up track setter Joe made short work of.  And– we had some troopers today. Helen Reid skied from town to the picnic table on the KH and then up the Amiskiwi a ways and then up to Emerald !! With no fresh tracks and wild winds.She jus made it in time to bring me a box of ???? something for Hans. And our # 1 member of the year–purchased in Sept. 2013—Dominic Bartl was out—to his amazement at the snow—to snowshoe through the lovely stuff.
We’ll get a track down eventually—-the highway is closed due to avalanches—just enjoy where your are. Cheers, MT

John packed and then tracked the Horsetrail, Fan, Connector all the way to Field. Not to mention snorkle-ing all the way and avoiding tree bombs!!!!
It was a full on day with the foot or more of new heavy snow we got. He found a bit of slush on the lake(only did the connection to Horse Trail on the lake) so beware.
So we got enough for skiers to enjoy—the rest will get done whenever???