NORTHERN REGION TRAIL REPORT

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Trail conditions at

· Bow Valley/Canmore/Kananaskis; see also the SkierRoger blog
· Banff National Park
· Jasper National Park

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Nordic Pulse overview

Full descriptions of a number of the areas listed below can be found at Mike Stern’s Edmonton Area Skiers Guide. For Mike Stern’s musings on local and regional conditions, see Mike's Two Skis Worth.
AREA	CONTACT PERSON	WEB RESOURCES	CONDITIONS	LAST UPDATE
Goldbar	Dean Zarudenec	ENSC, weather	Grooming details are on Nordic Pulse.   More info on the Facebook page.	Updated regularly
Other Edmonton trails	Park Rangers	City Recreation & Facebook	See the Parks & River Valley bulletin or SkiLocal or SkiYEG.	---
OUTSIDE EDMONTON
Athabasca (Muskeg Creek)	Sandra Jardine	Area map, description, weather	See the Athabasca Northern Nordic Ski Club Facebook page for details.	Updated by the club
Bonnyville	Sarah Parsons	description & maps, weather	Some Muriel Lake grooming details are on Nordic Pulse. See the Facebook page too.	Updated by the club
Camrose	Robert Early	Camrose NSC, description, weather, photogallery	See the club’s web site and Facebook page. Grooming details are on Nordic Pulse.	Updated by the club
Cold Lake	Ted Cote	description & maps, weather,	No new tracksetting or grooming has occurred in the last week. The trails within the park are tracked and in reasonably good condition for late season classic skiing. The bay is wind blown in the east side but skiable. The west side is good. The tracks cut after the last snowfall are hanging in there.	Mar 21
Cooking Lake – Blackfoot Recreation Area	Doug Wiens	Birkie, description, weather, photogallery	March 28 and fresh grooming is underway. Details are reported on Nordic Pulse. The Park Report is here. Trip reports etc. are on the Facebook page.	Updated regularly
Devon	Bob Scheele	photogallery, weather	All Classic Trails on the golf course were groomed last night and are in excellent condition - Double tracks in the same direction  The Skate Lane has been groomed and is in very good condition. The classic trails in the Lions Campground are in decent condition with a bit of skied in snow. The Lions Campground trails are well suited to novice skiers and are more sheltered on those brisk windy days. Remember you can stop in to the Golf Course Clubhouse for a warm meal, hot beverage or to change and use the washrooms. Ski a bit and warm up a bit.  Enjoy the skiing at DNSC. Grooming Donation link - https://zone4.ca/register.asp?id=26739 Membership link - https://zone4.ca/register.asp?id=36074 Trail maps and info link - linktr.ee/devonnordicskiclub Enjoy some very fine days of skiing in the Edmonton Area.	Feb 20
Drayton Valley (Pembina Nordic)	Jason Dodds	description, weather, photogallery	See the club’s Facebook page.	Updated by the club
Edson (Hornbeck)	Errol Bowren	description, weather, photogallery	Grooming is underway. Watch the Muskeg Flyers public Facebook page.	Mar 28
Fort McMurray (Ptarmigan Nordic)	Facebook	Ptarmigan NSC, weather, photogallery	See the Facebook page.	Updated by the club
Fort Saskatchewan	Facebook	Ft. Sask. NSC, description, weather, Photogallery	See the website report or the Facebook page.	Updated by the club
Grande Cache (Smoky River Nordic)	Denis Grenier	Smoky River Nordic, weather, photogallery	See the Facebook page for the club’s Trail Condition Report.	Updated by the club
Grande Prairie (Wapiti Nordic)	Eric Chislett	Wapiti NSC, weather, photogallery	See here for grooming details and trail conditions. More details also on the club’s Facebook page.	Updated by the club
Hinton	Terry Dodge	Hinton NSC, map, weather, photogallery	See the club’s web site, Facebook page, Nordic Pulse and the webcam.	Updated by the club
Lacombe	Tyler Dickson	Lacombe CCSC, maps, weather, photogallery	Lacombe is melted out, hoping for snow!	Mar 6
Lac La Biche	Brian Deheer	Park Report, weather, photogallery	See the Facebook page. We likely get some more skiing out of this new snow. So far, no new grooming done yet in LLB area. .	Mar 27
Leduc	Chris Hrabec	map, weather	See the Facebook page. Leduc golf course is groomed and reset. Spring conditions but skiable.	Mar 14
Miquelon Lake Provincial Park		Park Report, map, description, weather	Miquelon was very pleasant when it was tracked, which it hasn’t been in some years. Write a letter to someone.	Updated by park staff
Parkland county		Parkland Tourism, weather	Chickakoo (description & map), Tucker's Field & Bunchberry Meadows (description & map) and Hasse Lake: Updates here.	Updated by park staff
Pigeon Lake	Mike Black	Pigeon Lake NSC, trail conditions, maps, weather Hidden Springs	Looks like we’re pretty well done out here. You can find maps, trail updates and occasional contact updates at… plnsc.com Happy trails!	Mar 21
Red Deer	Don Wales	Red Deer NSC, weather, photogallery	See the Red Deer Nordic Facebook page. For grooming details of the River Bend Golf and Recreation Area Nordic Trails see Nordic Pulse. Ski skating likely good at River Bend but the classical tracks in Great Chief Park and Heritage Ranch are done. Grooming equipment has been stored for the summer so that we are not suckered into resuming grooming following a potential snowfall in March as has happened in the past.	Mar 6
Rocky Lane (High Level / Fort Vermilion)	Kayla Wardley	description, map, weather photogallery	See the Facebook page.	Updated by the club
Rocky Mountain House	Angela Chant	weather, photogallery	See the club’s Facebook page.	Updated by the club
Slave Lake (Nine Mile Rec.)	Evan Baranyk	Nine Mile Recreation Society, weather	See the club’s Facebook page. Nine Mile trails in slave lake are in fabulous condition.  Groomed yesterday Feb 7.  New mulching and clearing happened this summer to widen some of the existing trails making it great for skate ski and classic.	Feb 8
St. Albert	Christine Rawlins	description, weather photogallery	See the club's Facebook page.	Updated by the club
St. Paul (Lakeland)	Lakeland NSC	description, weather, photogallery	Check Nordic-Pulse for up to date trail conditions. Details at Westgrove Nordic Pulse and Lakeland Golf Course Nordic Pulse. See club news on the Facebook page. Maps are here.	Updated by the club
Strathcona Wilderness Centre	Paulina Retamales	SWC, trail map, description, weather	See the webcam, and Nordic Pulse. The weekly bulletin is here.	Bulletin issued on Friday
Tawatinaw Valley	Reint Boelman	Facebook, map, description, weather, photogallery	Grooming details are on Nordic Pulse.	Updated by the club
Vermilion	Vaughn Cooper	Vermilion Nordic, description, weather	See the club’s posting and Nordic Pulse.	Updated by the club