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Ski Trail

Trail Report

We woke up to the first snow of the year with a couple inches coming down Wednesday night and accumulating to an inch on the trails. The snow is dry and fluffy and will melt off by the weekend but always exciting to see the first snowfall of the year.

The ski trails are in excellent conditions and looking great for the winter.  We have completed mowing/clearing/brushing the trails and will continue doing tune up and clearing dead fall, keeping up with the strong winds as of late.  We flagged a new loop for the snowshoe trail and it is now cleared and ready for snow!  The mountain bike course is riding nicely and in great shape other than leaves covering the singletrack. We have blown leaves off the singletrack at Twin Lakes and lakeside singletrack. These areas are fantastic late season riding.    Latest bike trail report.

The swans have been very active on the area lakes and a treat to have flying over. A few flocks of ducks and geese and sightings of racoons, turkeys and a few grouse and a special treat a few Saturday mornings ago with a group of otters goofing around on island lake! The tamaracks still hanging on to a few needles.

 

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Moosejaw- Old Tyme Music, Dance and Clogging Weekend

The Wild Goose Chase Cloggers will continue a decades-long annual dance weekend called “MooseJaw” March 9-11 at the Maplelag Cross-Country Ski Resort near Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, about 4 hours northwest of the Twin Cities. We hope you’ll join us on March 9–11, 2012 for our annual dance weekend

Come hear “ass-kicking old-time music” by the hottest stringband in the scene today, Foghorn Stringband. Square and contra dances will be called by former Wild Goose Chase Clogger, Sue Hulsether. Two-step the night away with hometown Cajun dance hall heroes, The Bone Tones. Workshop offerings will include fiddle, banjo, guitar, singing, and many dance forms including Cajun dancing lead by Maureen Mullen. Theres also miles of beautiful cross-country skiing, the largest hot tub in Minnesota, all the hot coffee you could imagine, and of course, a bottomless cookie jar.

Based on the number of early registrations, we anticipate a full weekend. If you are intending to come to Moosejaw, please send in your registration soon to assure your spot.

Click here for more information and link to registration forms.

The Wild Goose Chase Cloggers is a 501(c)(3) educational organization dedicated to the promotion and preservation of traditional Appalachian clogging and music.  Email [email protected], or find more information on the Moosejaw website

 

Click here for photos from 2011

 

Square dance action, Moosejaw 2011