January starting out like January! Temps falling during the day with a nice breeze from the northwest but quite pleasant in the woods. Snow flurries off and on accumulating to an inch or two. Grooming on 38km of trail this morning. Skaters Waltz, extension and North Loup combed for skating, Twin Lakes, Sukkerbusk, Sap Run, Mother Hen and Lucky’s Loype groomed and track set where there good snow covered. The north and east facing sections of Sukker and Twin tracked the best and nice classic skiing. With snow falling after track setting and wind blowing snow in to tracks, it works! There is 3-6″ of snow in the woods and the base is 1-3″. Skaters waltz, the extension and North Loup are groomed for skating and classic skiers skiing on North Loup as well. All the trails have been groomed except Roy’s Run and we plan to pack that out this week. There are a few rough and thin spots but folks are out skiing and enjoying the fresh snow. The cool temps are making for much better skiing today.
A solid 3-4″ of dense solid snow this morning. We packed 52 of 64km of trail today, some trails up to 6 times! We still need a few more inches before we can set tracks but this is a great start and everyone staying at the resort able to get out and ski! We did set some tracks on the lake for a loop of 2.5km. The places that had existing coverage on the trails are real nice for early season and exposed areas are still thin with rough spots but the trails are open for skiing. We will smooth out some of the trails tomorrow morning.
