The trails are closed until it snows again. Warm temps during the night and shifty southwest winds has melted the snow on the trails. Blah!! It did crust over early Sunday morning for one more ski on Skaters Waltz and Suicide Hill. Suicide had good coverage…fun while it lasted! Long term forecast looks good for cold and snow after this warm spell and just 3-4″ we will be skiing again. We had a great November of skiing with 15 skiable days, thanks mostly to a Thanksgiving storm that dropped 3-5″. There is a solid 3-7″ of ice on the lake and skating has been nice in front of the lodge.
The Maplelag mug for this year has a different look as we have used a local artist, Mary Laabs of Dunton Locks Pottery (near Detroit Lakes), who has hand crafted each mug, all unique and different! The mugs are available for sale in the gift shop. Because of the labor intensive process, quantities are limited!
Feels like January today with temps in the upper single digits after morning lows below 0!! Beautiful sunshine however and light winds making for a gorgeous day in the woods. Skaters waltz and Suicide Hill ginzu groomed for the first time this year. Very light fluffy snow on Sunday accumulating to an inch or less. Monday morning ideal conditions for frost flowers to form on Little sugarbush
The trails are open for early season rock skiing. A Thanksgiving snowfall of 3-5″ has covered the trails and Skaters Waltz and Sukkerbusk have been groomed. Sukkerbusk has a skied in track and Skaters Waltz has been groomed for skating. The base is very thin with exposed rocks and dirt sections and sticks etc. but people have been skiing the trails and enjoying early season skiing. Suicide hill has good early season conditions, providing a good area for skiers to work out. We will not groom again until more snow but trails will remain open. This is a good start and 3-4 additional inches will greatly the conditions. Think Snow!
