Sledders caught at Highwood Pass

LID · Nov 23, 2015

Anyone hear about a couple of guys caught sledding at Highwood?

All I heard was that they got stuck so quickly out of the parking lot that the CO would have to be laughing at them pretty hard

JZ1 · Nov 23, 2015

That much snow at cat creek to get stuck in?

Anyway someone posted in the cat creek thread that a few guys were fined the other day.

i enjoy sledding out there with the wife and kids and its douchebags like this that get areas closed.

LID · Nov 23, 2015

I think it was right at Highwood Pass or so. Heard from people that were out ski touring

Eldereldo · Nov 23, 2015

if someone was actually sledding in the pass, they should be confiscating their sleds. There is no excuse for that, and if you tried to claim you didn't know better, then they should lose their sleds for being dumb asses. Bad enough people ignore the Cataract Creek opening date, that kind of **** is just going to come back and bite us all.

neilsleder · Nov 23, 2015

LID said:
Anyone hear about a couple of guys caught sledding at Highwood?

All I heard was that they got stuck so quickly out of the parking lot that the CO would have to be laughing at them pretty hard

Were they breaking in there new Arctic cats lol

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Sledderglen · Nov 23, 2015

Cataract area is still closed until Dec 1st. Highwood Pass area is always out of bounds. Way to far into the park to allow sledding. Highway there closes Dec 1st. Would be nice trail to ride but it will never happen. ASA tried to add this area together with Calgary club but were shut out. Wildlife sensitive area. BUT can still be used by skiers all they want. See them parked at gate all year long. If closed for wildlife wintering issues we ALL should stay out no matter who you are. JMHO

timmus · Nov 23, 2015

Sledderglen said:
Cataract area is still closed until Dec 1st. Highwood Pass area is always out of bounds. Way to far into the park to allow sledding. Highway there closes Dec 1st. Would be nice trail to ride but it will never happen. ASA tried to add this area together with Calgary club but were shut out. Wildlife sensitive area. BUT can still be used by skiers all they want. See them parked at gate all year long. If closed for wildlife wintering issues we ALL should stay out no matter who you are. JMHO

Agreed

Eldereldo · Nov 24, 2015

Ah no, the number of people who will skin all the way up to the pass is minuscule compared to how many people would sled in if they could. In fact, after the gate closes it is mostly snowshoes and cross country skiers who go a ways up the road, I doubt anyone actually goes all the way to the pass. There are plenty of other places to ski in the Spray Valley that are way closer to get to that hoofing it up that road.

Kaz Dog · Nov 24, 2015

As mentioned - Highway 40, north of the junction of Highways 40 (north to Kananaskis Valley), 541 (east to Longview), and 940 (south to Crownest Pass in the summer) is closed December 1 onward. This is often referred to as where Highwood House is. THERE IS NEVER ANY SNOWMOBILING ALLOWED IN THIS AREA - AT ANY TIME, unless there is a trap line there (which I am not sure of, but there may not be one).

Between this junction and Etherington Creek Provincial Recreation Area (north Trailhead to Cataract Creek Snowmobile Trails) THERE IS NEVER ANY SNOWMOBILING ALLOWED. There is a trap line in this area, and the trapper is the only one allow to operate a snowmobile here, on his trap line.

Cataract Creek Snowmobile Trails (C.C.S.T.) are open as per the regulation found in this document (zoom in to see better):

This document is found (through some searching - not straight forward in my opinion) on this website:

I hope this information gets out to every sledder in, and around, southern Alberta, who may choose to sled at C.C.S.T.

Teth-Air · Nov 24, 2015

Eldereldo said:
if someone was actually sledding in the pass, they should be confiscating their sleds. There is no excuse for that, and if you tried to claim you didn't know better, then they should lose their sleds for being dumb asses. Bad enough people ignore the Cataract Creek opening date, that kind of **** is just going to come back and bite us all.

I understand that rules are rules but sledding is allowed in most BC Provincial parks and many Federal parks in the USA so we should not automatically think it is the biggest no-no to be in a park. We are just conditioned in Alberta to think that way. In fact parks should be for all to use, not abuse.

Summitric · Nov 24, 2015

Years and years ago, jasper was open to snowmobiles... Went with my uncles and had plastic paddles bolted to the old sleds to get around

X-Treme · Nov 24, 2015

Summitric said:
Years and years ago, jasper was open to snowmobiles... Went with my uncles and had elk food bolted to the old sleds to get around

Fixed it for ya Ric.

SLEDBUNNYRACING · Nov 24, 2015

X-Treme said:
Fixed it for ya Ric.

Now that's funny

Sledding Season Can't Come Soon Enough....

Eldereldo · Nov 24, 2015

Teth-Air said:
I understand that rules are rules but sledding is allowed in most BC Provincial parks and many Federal parks in the USA so we should not automatically think it is the biggest no-no to be in a park. We are just conditioned in Alberta to think that way. In fact parks should be for all to use, not abuse.

Not disagreeing with you, but no way that someone riding in a closed area is helping to change the rules, just gives more ammo to those who think everything should be banned except what they do.. And there can be valid reasons to restrict certain activities on some areas. Problem is that everyone has their own agenda, and the reasons are usually of the I don't want some other activity in MY area no matter what the propaganda says.

Summitdoorule · Nov 27, 2015

YUP... Get use to NO SLEDN in the areas we use to snowmobile... Kicked out of Spray Lakes (1978); Kananaskis Lakes (1980); and now Castle (2015)... Not much ridn left in Southern Alberta???... Makes me SICK to my stomach to see what we have lost over the last 37 years...

LennyR · Nov 28, 2015

And then after reading these threads and posts and looking forward to getting out and seeing some of these beautiful a areas to ride , a bunch of phukking morons, some of them on here, will park blocking access roads, not respect industry traffic on roads, drop their food wrappers and beer cans wherever they happen to use them, leave all their $hit at the warm up cabins with the expectation somebody else hauls their crap away, bitch and whine about having to pay annual membership fees or trail passes, chase every animal they come upon with their sled then post it on YouTube, enter approved riding areas earlier than allowed, go into the back country totally unprepared when $hit happens it's " so,who's gonna help me " for free of course, and on and on.
Then some of those same clowns bitch on about how it sucks cause we are losing access to recreational areas, no $hit Sherlock !!!!

papajake · Nov 28, 2015

and most of those CLOWNS drive lifted trucks with big tires and work in the oil patch, things might change now that they don't have the money.

LBZ · Nov 28, 2015

papajake said:
and most of those CLOWNS drive lifted trucks with big tires and work in the oil patch, things might change now that they don't have the money.

GFY!!

Lived in BC for 20 years. Trust me when I say that province is full of just as many arsehole's driving trucks with blue and white plates doing the same dumb $hit.

JZ1 · Nov 28, 2015

papajake said:
and most of those CLOWNS drive lifted trucks with big tires and work in the oil patch, things might change now that they don't have the money.

is their a dislike button on this forum?

you forgot to add that they are probably black and in gangs as well

kakwa climber · Nov 28, 2015

papajake said:
and most of those CLOWNS drive lifted trucks with big tires and work in the oil patch, things might change now that they don't have the money.

Fawk you. I have been part of the oil patch since I was 17. Drove lifted trucks a time or two. Don't group us all together you moron. I can tell you I do as much or more for my community then you!

Remember without our oil patch you wouldn't have fuel. There are as many morons that work in trades or as a "professional" with the same attitude.

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