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Ron Lorenson commented on the blog post Killer Grouse on Ridge Road 2 weeks, 1 day ago
That grouse appears to have been quite busy on Sunday. As I was approaching the bench I met an iconic skier of longstanding who said that he had been hassled by a partridge. According to him it had fluffed-up its feathers and became quite insistent and noisy. Initially the icon thought that he was [...]
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Ron Lorenson commented on the blog post Demsis Thanks Skiers with Free Treats 1 month ago
For those of us who have been Demsis’ critics this should be a great opportunity to find out how Demsis views the cross-country contract. I have seen great track-setting performed by Demsis; I have also seen Demsis trash that same tracksetting with maintenance snowmobiles through either a distortion of priorities or just bad scheduling. For [...]
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Ron Lorenson wrote a new blog post: About 36, 50 and 52 2 months ago
Started from P11 on #36 but gave up after 2 km – it was just too popular yesterday – it’s worn out. All the downhills have high-sides with two deep ruts in the middle made by copious numbers of snowplowers so that it takes a strategy to get down them. There were a number [...]
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Ron Lorenson commented on the blog post Lac Phillippe vicinity 2 months ago
It might be difficult to hang this on Demsis as #56 is a back-country trail – in past years it was “compacted” with a snowmobile periodically. However, with the new regime of not tracking backcountry trails the question is why a snowmobile was used. If it was for access to the Lac Richard yurt then [...]
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Ron Lorenson wrote a new blog post: Good conditions toward the tower 2 months ago
Did classic from P10 to Wolf Trail. Conditions were quite good – FP, CP, #24, #1 had been groomed today – excellent grooming. The one problem was that the lower section of #24 (from #40 back to #1) still hasn’t been trackset – it’s skier compacted with wobbly classic tracks and an irregular skating track [...]