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Saturday Mar 15, 2008 #
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Fantastic films at the Banff Mountain Film Festival Tour last night! Each year the inspiring images and music in the intro trailer make me want to paddle a kayak over a waterfall, parasail off a mountaintop and ski off a 1000 meter cliff - ideally all at the same time. (Oh, and I'd like to survive!)
Running 2:17:00 [3]
Only 4 weeks until the Salomon Giant's Rib Raid, so 'Bent and I needed to run. With the temperature at +4C, I figured that it would be less frustrating than classic skiing!
After a week of warmer weather with minimal precipitation, these are the best snow running conditions we've had since early February. The snow remains over knee-deep in some places, but it has consolidated a lot, which makes it easier to move through than the bottomless fluffy stuff we had at the last couple of Thomass events. Too bad about tomorrow's race postponement...
We followed the Humber Valley Trail and went off-trail in a few places to see how the snow was. It was an out-and-back route, doing the first half on snowshoes, then making the return trip on foot to see the difference. Our times in each direction were virtually identical, even though the portion on foot had a net elevation gain. There was some post-holing and trailbreaking both on foot and on snowshoe, but it all seemed to balance out. However, we agreed that the snowshoes were more fun and better suited to winter conditions.
When we got close to Bolton, the trail was mostly packed down.
When we were on foot, it would have been nice to have Yak Trax or spiked shoes for the hills. I missed the traction of my snowshoes more than the flotation - even though the snow got quite deep in a few places.
We only met two other people out there exploring the forest - Slowrunner and Lexie (sp?). 'Bent looks pretty happy posing with the ladies.
After a week of warmer weather with minimal precipitation, these are the best snow running conditions we've had since early February. The snow remains over knee-deep in some places, but it has consolidated a lot, which makes it easier to move through than the bottomless fluffy stuff we had at the last couple of Thomass events. Too bad about tomorrow's race postponement...
We followed the Humber Valley Trail and went off-trail in a few places to see how the snow was. It was an out-and-back route, doing the first half on snowshoes, then making the return trip on foot to see the difference. Our times in each direction were virtually identical, even though the portion on foot had a net elevation gain. There was some post-holing and trailbreaking both on foot and on snowshoe, but it all seemed to balance out. However, we agreed that the snowshoes were more fun and better suited to winter conditions.
When we got close to Bolton, the trail was mostly packed down.
When we were on foot, it would have been nice to have Yak Trax or spiked shoes for the hills. I missed the traction of my snowshoes more than the flotation - even though the snow got quite deep in a few places.
We only met two other people out there exploring the forest - Slowrunner and Lexie (sp?). 'Bent looks pretty happy posing with the ladies.