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CNC - icy AF
Report Submitted by Barry G
(trip) Date: Monday Apr 08, 2024
Submitted: Monday Apr 08, 2024 at 14:48
Participants:
Solo
Discussion:
Got sucked in to drive to Canmore early early early after seeing the Nordic Pulse promise of fresh tracksetting on some of the outer loops.
Nope. Natural trails are all ice ... there is simply no snow to till to set fresh tracks.
Even the machine snow was hard in early a.m. (although Swix VR 70 red worked for a while, as long as you stopped to re-apply every few km when it got scraped off, but even that soft red with a generous helping of spruce needles stopped gripping when it warmed up and everything started softening and slowing mid-morning).
Skating looked scratchy and sketchy. Tried skins and they helped late a.m. when things softened up. Couple of skiers on (shudder) klister looked to be faring best.
Oh well, it made for a good arm workout. Can't really complain about being able to ski at all in Apr after this dry winter. And a bad day on skis still beats yardwork.
Total distance: 22.40 Km
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Comments:
2024-04-08 at 15:04 - comment by aqua toque
"AF"? I don't see that on the acronym list.
Is it new?
2024-04-09 at 20:41 - comment by ulrikeski
Hi Barry: agree, skiing at CNC at this time of year can be a real "hit and miss" game. I skate skied there last Saturday with wet snow falling and it was a huge effort to get any glide. Skied today after work at 4:30pm and had a more pleasant skate ski in soft snow on recent grooming on Rundle and Meadowview at a slow pace. Not many skiers out so no big ruts. Classic tracks looked fine, but you'd want fishscale skis. Even the biathlon loop (Lynx) was alright. Overcast sky seems to help keep the snow in better shape.
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