Feels and looks like winter with snow falling off and on most of the day accumulating to an inch or two. This is a great start as this snow should stick with cooler temps forecasted and a nice little base for the next snowfalls. Quite a wild day of weather. Calm,clear and sunny conditions in the early morning before a big time snow squall, break in clouds with a return of the sunshine than big wind and snow flurries late afternoon. Temps staying cool in the lower 30’s. Many of the smaller lakes and ponds are frozen over and the ground is slowly starting to set in frost. Riding on the mountain bike trails was great early on and the last report of the year is posted.
The trails are in great shape and ready for winter. A few sticks coming down from today’s wind we will clear when on the trails.
Snow has returned after the snow last week melted off over the weekend. Snow squalls off and on Monday accumulating to an inch or so. The weather patterns look to switch to more winter like weather this week and the rest of the month. Hopefully we have some early season skiing in 7-10 days!
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 season is just about done. A few riders on trail over the weekend. 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.
Snow squall on Sukkerbusk Monday afternoon, November 14th, 2011.
St Paul Highland Park skiers all smiles on Lucky's Loype, December 21st, 2010.
Today is the opening day for high school Nordic skiing in Minnesota. Maplelag enjoys hosting many teams who conduct training camps early in the season. The high school programs have been thriving and great job to the programs introducing so many people to this wonderful lifetime sport.
