MLR and a bit of Tramline

Trip date: Monday Nov 08, 2021

Submitted by Sara M

Particpants:

Me!

Discussion:

Thanks to Alaric's positive review of MLR, I headed out for my first ski of the year. I got to the parking lot a few minutes before all the skiers from Saskatchewan arrived and I was the first one on the snow. Good news: it snowed a few centimeters overnight/this morning! Bad news: breaking trail is slow work. I started on Rode Multigrade and that worked until the Paradise parking lot, where it started icing and I switched to VR40. Poles hit pavement in the typical thin spots, but my skis didn't get any new scrapes. The Sask team was skating and it looked like a few skis may have lost their edges, though. After a trip up and down MLR, I headed up Tramline towards Lake Louise. There was a narrow, walker/fatbike packed path down the middle of the trail that made for decent skiing. Good coverage, no rocks. After I got back down to MLR, I kept following Tramline down to the road crossing and came back up. Again, no rocks!