I have skied locally at Calabogie for years and so far 11 days this season. Unfortunately, this year the hill conditions are the worst I have ever seen in spite of the excellent early winter (lots of natural snow and consistently below freezing temperatures). Conditions on the ungroomed runs are not just bad but dangerous. Further, this year the snow guns have been producing slush instead of dry snow so the conditions on many of the groomed runs can only be described as very icy. Finally, the terrain report published on the hill's web site is inaccurate - even the glade runs are shown as groomed! Finally, I have observed that some (at least 3) of the ski patrol (Calabogie Peaks employees) they do have are unable to ski (multiple falls in the course of a single run) in difficult ski conditions.
I have skied locally at Calabogie for years and so far 11 days this season. Unfortunately, this year the hill conditions are the worst I have ever seen in spite of the excellent early winter (lots of natural snow and consistently below freezing temperatures). Conditions on the ungroomed runs are not just bad but dangerous. Further, this year the snow guns have been producing slush instead of dry snow so the conditions on many of the groomed runs can only be described as very icy. Finally, the terrain report published on the hill's web site is inaccurate - even the glade runs are shown as groomed! Finally, I have observed that some (at least 3) of the ski patrol (Calabogie Peaks employees) they do have are unable to ski (multiple falls in the course of a single run) in difficult ski conditions.