Winterlike weather returning with 4-5″ of fresh snow and temps in the teens. Later morning  (Wednesday), North Loup was groomed using a better section of Skaters Waltz to access the Loup since these trails still had snow and ice coverage before the new snow. Skiing on the groomed later was not too bad, minus the low areas that had water/slush. Snow since grooming has improved the skiing but a few low areas still wet. Temp has been in the upper teens, freezing down most of the low areas and should make for better grooming and skiing next time around, most likely Thursday night and skiing should be very nice on Friday and Saturday mornings.

Photos below from yesterday.

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Not a bad weekend of springlike skiing on the trails. We definitely lost some snow over the weekend and areas of thin cover emerged with a few bare spots but still a handful of folks enjoying the late season skiing opportunities. Grooming Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings on Skaters Waltz and North Loup. Skating was relatively fast in the earlier part of the morning and then softening up and getting a bit slower as the day passed, each day. A handful of folks classic skiing using “no-wax” skis or crown skis and reports were good. North Loup has the best coverage of all the trails and skiing should be possible Monday morning if it doesn’t rain as much as forecasted. We are done grooming for the year unless we have a snowfall over 4″ then we would pack out Skaters Waltz and North Loup most likely. Thanks to everyone who came to Maplelag and skied on the trails. It was a great year. Check back later in the week to see how things are holding up after the series of lows pass through

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