Beautiful day in the woods, just missing a few more inches of snow! We do have a dusting of snow on the trails with some areas holding better coverage than others. Suicide hill was packed out today to hopefully provide some skiing on Saturday.

The St Paul Highland Park ski team is here for the weekend for a training camp. Skiing on the lake, playing ultimate frisbee, singletrack trail running  all part of the weekend activities…plus eating, cookies and hot tub!

The lake is fair to good for ice skating and we have starting working on the ice rink on land in effort to have skating avail early next week.

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The storm moving through the northern plains has provided misty, damp conditions. We have not received any new snow since the snow we received in November which is still evident here and there on the trail system. The trails are in great shape and won’t take much to have skiable conditions. The northeast facing sections of trail still holding sections of snow cover and just a few inches will be able to get these trails open. It has been a record dry fall and we are ready for it to change and start snowing!! Think Snow!! Above freezing temps overnight has melted off most of the snow on the lake, unfortunately, and not possible to ski on the lake now. Once it re freezes should be improved ice skating. We are waiting for next cold front to begin making ice in the ice skating rink.

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