Another fabulous day, however there were fewer skiers in the Lac Philippe sector than expected. With such warm weather the skating did become quite a slog, particularly the last 3 Km back to the car!! However the Lusk trail and trail 50 (as it parallels the lake) are quite shady. The shady sections were quite fast! It was a perfect day for alternating long periods of sitting in the sun with vigorous bouts of skiing.

The snow is so far surviving beautifully!
The snow on the Taylor lake trail (green) was stunning! See attached photo! It was marked as "fair" on the park website, as was trail 54.
Lusk (54) was in very good shape, with none of the usual flooded sections yet.
Trail 50, marked good to very good, was fine, although rutted (as usual) with snowmobile carnage. This was particularly irritating between trail 55 and Lac Philippe. See final attached photo. The classic tracks between P19 and trail 55 had obviously not been reset for today, and were extremely shallow, sometimes disappearing altogether.