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Ski Trail Report

Trails are open. It’s been a great start to the ski season after 7″ of snowfall the past 7 days and grooming every day except Sunday. Overall the trails are skiing very nice for early season. 

We will continue with daily grooming this week, working on all the trails and filling in thin areas. Today a shallow track was set on Sukkerbusk, easy loop of JibFly and parts of Sap Run and Mother Hen. We need another 1-3″ to set full tracks on more trails. Still some nice no track classic skiing to be had until then! Monday Sukkerbusk, Sap Run, Skaters Waltz were combed with the 5′ Ginzu groomer. North Star, Rootin Tootin, Twin Lakes, North Loup and Skaters extension and JibFly were roll combed. Today we also packed out Roy’s Run, Wavy Gravy and Island Lake trails.

A great Thanksgiving week of skiing. Thank you to everyone that came out to ski and supported the trails with season pass purchases. Day passes can be purchased here.

Early season conditions, use a little extra caution watching for thin cover and rough spots but very skiable. 30km of trail packed and roll combed. No tracks set. Recommended to ski Sukkerbusk and the easy loop of JibFly for no track classic skiing and skating on Skaters Waltz bypassing the Kamikaze hill segment. Other trails packed and groomed will have a bit more rough spots…..Just Ski! 

All inner trails have been packed and combed. Twin Lakes to the west and North Loup and the extension loops of Skaters Waltz to the north also packed and combed. 

We had a great Autumn of Fall grooming clearing leaves and debris off the trails and the new snow is packing in well with the clean deck before the snow. 

We cleared over 600 trees since the Solstice 2025 storm. Big thanks to everyone that has helped!

A relatively dry fall. Total snowfall in November at 7″. October precipitation at 2.7″ and around 1″ in September. Total precipitation ytd (rain) at Maplelag is at 25.12″.

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Support the trails! Day and season pass purchases help us offset costs to maintain the trails. Thanks everyone for the support.

Setting track, December 2nd, 2025. A shallow track was set on Sukkerbusk, easy loop of JibFly and parts of Sap Run and Mother Hen. We need another 1-3″ to set full tracks on more trails. Still some nice no track classic skiing to be had until then!
Members of the Moorhead Nordic team heading out for practice, December 2nd, 2025.
Combing the deck with Ginzu groomer on Sukkerbusk, December 1st, 2025.
Roll combing on Mother North Star, December 1st, 2025.
Sunshine on Sap Run, November 30th, 2025.
Sunset on Skaters Waltz capping off a great Thanksgiving weekend of skiing, November 30th, 2025. 
Members of the Moorhead Nordic ski team on trail today, November 29th, 2025.
Evening grooming, November 25th, 2025. 
First tracks on fresh grooming, November 28th, 2025. (Michael Johnson photo)
Ginzu groomer in action after shoveling on thin areas, November 28th, 2025.
Thanksgiving skiers, November 27th 2025.
Sukkerbusk ski trail, November 27th 2025.
Roll combing on Eira Bikwadinaa hill, November 26th, 2025.
Roll combing on JibFly trail, November 26th, 2025.
Roll combing on Skaters Waltz, November 26th, 2025.
Roll packing on Eira Bikwadinaa hill, November 25th, 2025.