We received around 3″ of snow the past 24 hours. As of 6pm Wednesday, still some flurries swirling around as the cold front pushes through. Definitely some of the coolest weather we have seen in a while! We packed and groomed about 20km, spending most of the day grooming Skaters Waltz minus the kamikaze section and also Sukkerbusk. Not enough new snow to set tracks but Sukkerbusk will be fine for no track classic skiing and the main loop of Skaters Waltz ok for skating. We are preparing these two trails to be in the best condition possible for the High School Nordic ski camp this coming weekend.

A check of the trails skate skiing late afternoon found nice early season skiing with a few rough spots. With the expected high volume of skier traffic, there will be some rough spots to open up but ski with caution, avoid the dark spots and should hold up okay. Skating allowed on Skaters Waltz and the extension. All other trails will be classic, no tracks set. We packed out North Loup but need a few more inches to have safe skiing there.

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Despite another warm weekend, we are still hanging on to some coverage on the trails. Over the weekend had a few flakes of snow, no rain, and the ground is frozen with frost 6″ down. A check of the trails late Sunday found some trails better than others including the main 4km loop of Skaters Waltz which has coverage the entire loop with a combined 300 meter section spotty coverage. (The area we have worked on this week, farming snow to). Sukkerbusk another early season trail we are ready to get in good skiing condition once the next snowfall occurs. We have hauled in a few more loads of snow including a few loads from the local ice arena.

With the base that remains from snow last week, it won’t take much fresh snow and proper grooming to have the trails open again for skiing. Think Snow!

We have installed a personal weather station and local weather information with switchyard cam can be found be clicking here.

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