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Calgary
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Jasper, ab
Canada
1029 Posts |
Posted - 08/20/2010 : 09:22 AM
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| What kills me is that there are so many trip reports coming out of BC with nothing but blue skies. It's not fair. We don't have a single large fire burning in Alberta |
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High River, (just south of Calgary eh!), Alberta
Canada
1700 Posts |
Posted - 08/20/2010 : 09:54 AM
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A website to play with that is supposed to be able to forcast the smoke:
http://www.bcairquality.com/bluesky/
Calgary area right now very hazy, driving in this morning visibility +- 2 miles. |
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Calgary, Alberta
Andorra
3787 Posts |
Posted - 08/20/2010 : 6:54 PM
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| I just got home from Lillian Lake. We had fairly clear skies yesterday, but it rolled in hard overnight. This morning the smoke hung over the lake, and you couldn't see the mountains above us. Crazy driving out the top of highway 40 and not seeing a single mountain to the west. |
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26 Posts |
Posted - 08/23/2010 : 10:33 PM
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Got pretty lucky on Friday (Aug 20) and found a trail above the smoke. I had zero expectations for the day given the total lack of visibility down at the start of Hwy 40 in the early morning. By the time we arrived at the Chester Lake trailhead, it was pretty clear in all directions, so we headed off up the Headwall Lakes valley. Coming back down Hwy 40 into the smoke again at the end of the day was something else. Mt Kidd is pretty big, but it was doing its best disappearing act from the highway.
Here's an idea of how "normal" things looked up at the Headwall valley compared to on the other side of The Fortress towards Hwy 40.
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Calgary, Alberta
Canada
8 Posts |
Posted - 08/30/2010 : 07:27 AM
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| Six inches of snow and sub-zero (icicles forming) at 1 pm yesterday on Moose Mountain. Despite that I was surprised that ours was the only party to summit - it was only as bad as an average winter's day in Wales, after all! |
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Canmore, AB
Canada
1238 Posts |
Posted - 08/30/2010 : 2:36 PM
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| There's a good dusting of snow on Grotto, Lady Mac, etc. but it'll probably melt off by the weekend. |
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737 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2010 : 4:12 PM
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Originally posted by spicytuna
There's a good dusting of snow on Grotto, Lady Mac, etc. but it'll probably melt off by the weekend.
Unfortunately, if the abundance of snow on the Banded Peak group (sorry Wietse!) is any indicator of the snow on the peaks around Canmore...
Did Tyrwhitt today...a good 6" of snow by the side of the highway, parking and trailhead. This didn't change in the woods and got deeper by Grizzly Col. I was fighting waist-deep snow in places on the final push to the summit. Talk about gruelling and slippery! |
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Alberta-based choss climbin', flame throwin', rappel lovin', ass talkin' hater who doesn't like "Gumby" for a descriptor
6302 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2010 : 9:56 PM
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Powell River, bc
Canada
2534 Posts |
Posted - 09/06/2010 : 10:21 PM
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LOL>>>> I'm gonna freeze my ass off!!! Why can't you people have fall????
Snow tires are now loaded in the car to get mounted up in Whistler!!! |
Edited by - no quitting on 09/06/2010 10:40 PM |
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Calgary, AB
Canada
1 Posts |
Posted - 09/07/2010 : 07:33 AM
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Went up to Aster Lake on September 4 with the intent of doing the Northover Ridge the next day. We had good weather with two short rain storms and then woke up on Sept 5, 2010 to about 10cm of snow at Aster Lake.
  
There was hardly any snow down below at Upper Kananaskis Lake. Just a skiff of really wet snow and the precipitation had changed to a light rain or mist by the time we got down. |
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972 Posts |
Posted - 09/07/2010 : 08:32 AM
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| wow what a nice puff of white to wake up to |
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Alberta-based choss climbin', flame throwin', rappel lovin', ass talkin' hater who doesn't like "Gumby" for a descriptor
6302 Posts |
Posted - 09/07/2010 : 09:04 AM
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Originally posted by no quitting
LOL>>>> I'm gonna freeze my ass off!!! Why can't you people have fall????
Snow tires are now loaded in the car to get mounted up in Whistler!!!
Fall? Fall? We don't need no stinking fall! Expect more snow up high over the next days. WOOHOOOOO |
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High River, (just south of Calgary eh!), Alberta
Canada
1700 Posts |
Posted - 09/07/2010 : 10:48 AM
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| Larch turning yet??? |
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Alberta-based choss climbin', flame throwin', rappel lovin', ass talkin' hater who doesn't like "Gumby" for a descriptor
6302 Posts |
Posted - 09/07/2010 : 5:20 PM
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Okotoks, Alberta
Canada
326 Posts |
Posted - 09/07/2010 : 6:52 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by Granticulus
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Originally posted by spicytuna
There's a good dusting of snow on Grotto, Lady Mac, etc. but it'll probably melt off by the weekend.
Unfortunately, if the abundance of snow on the Banded Peak group (sorry Wietse!) is any indicator of the snow on the peaks around Canmore...
Did Tyrwhitt today...a good 6" of snow by the side of the highway, parking and trailhead. This didn't change in the woods and got deeper by Grizzly Col. I was fighting waist-deep snow in places on the final push to the summit. Talk about gruelling and slippery!
Yeah...not happy...will have to do this traverse next year. Did Remus on Saturday, got rained on a little bit but only hard for about 10-15 minutes. Hope it's going to melt of a bit before the weekend...or wax my skis... |
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Calgary, Alberta
Andorra
3787 Posts |
Posted - 09/07/2010 : 9:05 PM
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Oh, I was hoping to do Tyrwhitt for the Larch this summer. Did summer go by in the couple weeks I've been away, or did we really just go straight from Spring to Winter?
I feel like winter just ended, and I'm still waiting for summer to show.. |
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Powell River, bc
Canada
2534 Posts |
Posted - 09/07/2010 : 9:23 PM
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^ Who are you trying to kid?? You people don't get fall!!!
T2C...........I know....How I miss your cold embrace.....yada yada!!!
Just 1 trip!!! |
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2421 Posts |
Posted - 09/08/2010 : 06:42 AM
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Labour Day Weekend, Canmore/Lake Louise Trip  |
Edited by - peter1955 on 09/08/2010 10:28 AM |
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Canmore, AB
Canada
1238 Posts |
Posted - 09/08/2010 : 10:05 AM
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Peter,
Where exactly was that taken? |
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Alberta Recent conditions reports
