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!
Dylan and Charlie Ramstad enjoying the fresh snow and making tracks with the woods skis, Friday November 23rd, 2012.
Ian Fritz and Jack Harris coming in from the trails Friday morning.
Fresh powder ! 3-5″ fluffy new snow Thursday night/Friday morning. 4 trails roll compacted early morning for total of 11km. 1/2″ to 2″ compacted soft base with thin and rough spots. 13 degrees, light snow falling most of the day on Friday.
Last night groomed our early season loop after 2-3″ of snow had fallen. Was thin and rough but wanted to get a groomable base established for any more snow during the night. Headed out early this morning to find 1-5″ of new snow on the trails. The start area was very thin as result of big wind. Overall the trails groomed pretty good for a first snowfall. The trails groomed last night came out a bit better as expected including Suicide hill. Skied about 5km after grooming and found fair to very good early season first snowfall skiing. Suicide, as expected, was in the best shape after multiple packings the last 12 hours. The back sides of Skaters Waltz and Sukkerbusk were winterwonderland and very nice skiing. A check of non groomed found skiable for classic. We will have the trails groomed open for skiing at no charge. Be advised there are thin areas and a snowplow will most likely push to the ground. Best to use “rock” skis. This is a great start and awesome to be grooming and skiing again! Most of skaters waltz and Suicide hill groomed again late Friday.
Dylan and Charlie Ramstad enjoying the fresh snow and making tracks with the woods skis.Ian Fritz and Jack Harris coming in from the trails Friday morning.
Jake enjoying excellent early season skiing conditions on Thanksgiving day 2010, November 25th.
Thanks to everyone who made a visit to Maplelag this past year and has confirmed winter reservation for the upcoming season. We appreciate it very much. We are looking forward to a great winter!! If you would like to make a reservation online, check availability, confirm open dates via e-mail or call 800-654-7711 and deposits can be done online through this website.
A special weekend of skiing, relaxing, and retreating! Join Ann Dolence and Carolyn Espel through a fun journey of wellness activities, motivational talks, yoga, Spring Forest Qigong (Chinese healing art), and Qi~ssage (acupressure on 24 main points of the body). Plenty of time will be built in to enjoy the ski trails, professional instruction from Kyia Anderson, and warm ambiance of the resort. Bring your friends and relatives and make new friends in this Time For You retreat. Contact Maplelag [email protected] for more information and reservations until flier is posted. Limited space available! Make reservations now!
