Happy May! A mild more seasonable day on tap after a cool start to the week. Multiple mornings in the 20’s! The flora on the forest floor has been slow to emerge with the cooler temps after showing life last weekend but should rebound this weekend. We have been busy working on the mountain bike trail, tuning and clearing the trail and also continue cleaning up deadfall from last summer’s storm, using the blocks to split for firewood.

Nice to see the riders and hikers out on the trails this spring. The forest floor exploding with Hepatica flowers over the weekend with the warmer weather and a few bloodroot flowers as well. The ponds and sloughs active with waterfowl and loons have been numerous on Little Sugarbush. Ice went off on April 19th. Cooler weather to start the week with a breeze from the northwest. 

Relatively dry conditions after the most recent moisture of 1″ last week. There is good moisture deep in the soil and the water tables are at normal levels. Maplelag moss coming to life from the recent rain.

 The mountain bike trails are open for riding.

Thank you to everyone that comes to Maplelag and supports the trails with season pass purchases. A MN State trail pass is not required to use the trails at Maplelag. The Maplelag trails are self funded by operations with no grants or state funding.