I haven’t been cross country skiing in many years, and Nadine had never been, so today we thought we’d hit the trails. It was still the long weekend, where the ski hill was likely to be busy, so getting out on the cross country trails would provide a bit of solitude.

We rented skis from the hotel for the day, and decided to stick to some easier trails. Since we had been up the lake on snow shoes the other day, we decided to follow trail #2 below, which heads out below the base of Fairview Mountain and toward the Moraine Lake Road.

Here we are heading down the trail.

And here is Nadine getting the hang of things.

We skied out to the end of the “easy” part of the trail, turned around before the steeper sections, and headed back to toward Lake Louise. On the return, as we were getting a bit more confidence, we detoured onto trail #4 for the final stretch home.

It was a great day of exercise and nature!

Back at the hotel, we enjoyed a nice relaxing meal in the Lakeview Lounge.