Mar 20, 2017 | BC XC Report
Six weeks of dry and warm weather provide less than inspiring motivation to get out on the local ski trails. If you haven’t already succumbed to the Spring heat wave that we’ve been enjoying, and traded your skinny boards for wheels to ply on bare dry...
Mar 6, 2017 | BC XC Report
Variable is the word that best describes ski conditions of late. The fickle March conditions vary not only depending on what aspect or exposure to wind and sun, but also pertaining from one day and even hour to another. After the storm of last Wednesday, the...
Feb 16, 2017 | BC XC Report
The 2017 crust season got an early first-wave start this past Tuesday (Feb 13), courtesy of a week of mind-bogglingly warm temperatures that brought slush and a rapidly shrinking snowpack to the Fraser Valley. Overnight temperatures for the last 2 nights have been in...
Feb 9, 2017 | BC XC Report
The late winter weather has been rough on the snowpack with winds, warm moist air masses, and strengthening sunshine increasing the variability of snow conditions underfoot. Exposed area are showing the inevitable breakable crust that comes with strong sunshine and...
Jan 31, 2017 | BC XC Report
Groundhog day, when our fate is cast for the possible beginning of Spring, is just around the corner, and it feels like the winter has only just begun. It would seem that the Snow-making machinery has been shut down for a bit, with no significant snowfall in recent...
