All posts by Jay Richards

Ski Trail Report

A nice Thanksgiving day of early season skiing, good seeing a handful of folks out. Trails are open through the weekend for season pass holders (purchase tickets here)  thanks to 6″ of new snow this week. Today we plan to touch up the inner trails with the Ginzu groomer leveling and packing the base and shoveling snow on thin areas on Skaters Waltz and Sukkerbusk. 

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 will have a bit more rough spots. 

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. Grooming plans: No grooming planned on Thanksgiving, touch up grooming with the Ginzu groomer planned Friday. Happy Thanksgiving!

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. 

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

A relatively dry fall. Total precipitation in November at .13″ and a trace of snow. October precipitation at 2.7″ and around 1″ in September. Total precipitation ytd (rain) at Maplelag is at 25.12″.

 Click here for fat bike trail report.

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

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.
Start area, November 25th, 2025.

Ski Trail Report

Happy Thanksgiving! A nice day of early season skiing, good seeing a handful of folks out. Trails are open through the weekend for season pass holders thanks to  6″ of new snow this week. Friday we plan to touch up the inner trails with the Ginzu groomer leveling and packing the base.

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 will have a bit more rough spots. 

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. Grooming plans: No grooming planned on Thanksgiving, touch up grooming with the Ginzu groomer planned Friday. Happy Thanksgiving!

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. 

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

A relatively dry fall. Total precipitation in November at .13″ and a trace of snow. October precipitation at 2.7″ and around 1″ in September. Total precipitation ytd (rain) at Maplelag is at 25.12″.

 Click here for fat bike trail report.

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

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.
Start area, November 25th, 2025.

Fat Bike Trail Report

Snow! 6″ of new snow from the Tuesday storm. We have been packing on the ski trails and hope to pack out fat bike trail next week. Twin Lakes and Bullhead Bootleg loops open for riding, expect slow going with the snow. Happy Thanksgiving!

Ski Trail Report

Ski trails are open Thanksgiving and through the weekend for season pass holders.  6″ of new snow past 24 hours. 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 the easy loop of JibFly, Sukkerbusk and Skaters Waltz bypassing the Kamikaze hill segment. Other trails packed will have a bit more rough spots.

We were back out on the trail today, roll combing all the trails roll packed yesterday as well as packing and combing a few more inner trails. Twin Lakes to the west and North Loup and the extension loops of Skaters Waltz to the north also packed and combed. Grooming plans: No grooming planned on Thanksgiving, touch up grooming with the Ginzu groomer planned Friday. Happy Thanksgiving!

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. 

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

A relatively dry fall. Total precipitation in November at .13″ and a trace of snow. October precipitation at 2.7″ and around 1″ in September. Total precipitation ytd (rain) at Maplelag is at 25.12″.

 Click here for fat bike trail report.

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

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.
Start area, November 25th, 2025.

Ski Trail Report

Snow!!As of 8pm around 5-6″ of snow. We packed 18km of trail today, focusing on the inner trails and will be back out packing and combing the same trails Wednesday. Select trails will be open Thanksgiving and through the weekend for season pass holders.

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.

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

A relatively dry fall. Total precipitation in November at .13″ and a trace of snow. October precipitation at 2.7″ and around 1″ in September. Total precipitation ytd (rain) at Maplelag is at 25.12″.

 Click here for fat bike trail report.

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

Roll packing on Eira Bikwadinaa hill, November 25th, 2025.
Start area, November 25th, 2025.
One more leaf clearing in the “back bowl”, November 21st, 2025.
Sukkerbusk ski trail ready for snow, November 20th, 2025.
Ice on Bullhead Lake, November 19th, 2025.
Trail tuning on Twin Lakes ski trail, November 19th, 2025.
Little Sugarbush lake looking towards Maplelag, November 16th, 2025. The lake has been glazing over with ice in the mornings. 
Sunshine on Sukkerbusk ski trail, November 16th, 2025.
Bog scene near JibFly ski trail, November 16th, 2025.
Mulari lake near Twin Lakes ski trail covered in ice, November 12th, 2025.
Northern lites over the cabooses, November 12th, 2025.
Northern Lights over the ice skating rink, November 12th, 2025.
Beaver Super Moon over the switchyard, November 2nd, 2025. 
Saturday hikers! November 1st, 2025.
Fall grooming on Bullhead Lake trail, October 31st, 2025.
Mossy maple! October 31st, 2025.
Fall grooming on Mother Hen, October 29th, 2025.
Incredible sunset over Bullhead Lake on the mountain bike track, October 28th, 2025.
A great day of fall grooming on the northern trails, Roy’s Run, North Loup and the extension loops of Skaters Waltz, October 27th, 2025. Ready for snow but will continue with touch up as needed. 
Fall grooming on Island Lake trail, October 25th, 2025.