The big storm in Minnesota on Saturday stayed south of Maplelag with just a few flakes falling early before clearing off late afternoon and temps falling to 0. Despite the cold temps, a beautiful day for the first day of high school Nordic ski camp. (Photos on the event page) The trails are in great shape and pretty much in mid winter conditions! 60 of 64km packed/tracked/combed. 4-6″ compacted base. 40km tracked classic only, 15km groomed skate only. We are grooming Sukkerbusk, Twin Lakes, Wavy Gravy, Island Lake, Rootin Tootin, JibFly, Mother North Star and Lucky’s Loype for classic and Skaters Waltz/ extension, Kristin’s Kutoff, Single and Double green, Suicide Hill and North Loup for skating.
The entire trail system is open except for the east side (4km) of Bullhead lake trail. The east side is closed until colder weather, which will freeze the thin ice areas. Roy’s Run groomed early and 75% is in good condition with soft track, fresh snow on top/skier packed and other 25% is rough. We could not groom the entire loop because of water issues but still have a full complete loop using bootleg trail and forest access roads. A nice start to the season with 22″ of snow this season, so far. The trails are open for day skiing and the current fee is $10 to use the trails until December 20th the fee will go to $15
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Ski Camp Photos
A fantastic day on the trails for day one of the High School Nordic ski camps. This weekend featured teams from Bloomington Jefferson, Minneapolis Southwest, Wayzata and Minnetonka. The teams were involved in time trials, clinics, ski games and logging long training sesssion on the classic trails…..and on pace to consume 5000 cookies from the bottomless cookie jars!!
Ski Camp
The big storm in southern Minnesota was just that, south! Still a fantastic day on the trails for the ski camp with teams from Bloomington Jefferson, Minneapolis Southwest, Wayzata and Minnetonka partaking in time trials, clinics, ski games and logging long training sesssion on the classic trails…..and on pace to consume 5000 cookies from the bottomless cookie jars!! More photos from the first weekend high school Nordic ski camp on the event page.
Trail Report
Around 3-4″ of dense snow the past 24 hours. Snow was groomed in on trails to be open for the weekend. The trails are in great shape and pretty much in mid winter conditions! 60 of 64km packed/tracked/combed. 4-6″ compacted base. 40km tracked classic only, 15km groomed skate only, 6km packed(Island lake trail, will be tracked Friday morning) . We are grooming Sukkerbusk, Twin Lakes, Wavy Gravy, Island Lake, Rootin Tootin, JibFly, and Lucky’s Loype for classic and Skaters Waltz/ extension, Kristin’s Kutoff, Single and Double green, Suicide Hill and North Loup for skating.
The entire trail system has been packed/tracked or combed (including the two soccer fields and back bowl)except for the east side (4km) of Bullhead lake trail. The east side is closed until colder weather, which will freeze the thin ice areas. Roy’s Run was pack-tracked on Friday (packed with track set right at same time) today and 75% is in good condition with soft track, fresh snow on top/skier packed and other 25% is rough. We could not groom the entire loop because of water issues but still have a full complete loop using bootleg trail and forest access roads. A nice start to the season with 22″ of snow this season, so far. The trails are open for day skiing and the current fee is $10 to use the trails.
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Trail Report
Snowing hard early this morning leaving around 2″ of nice dense snow. We will be grooming in this new snow today. The trails are in great shape and pretty much in mid winter conditions! 60 of 64km packed/tracked/combed. 3-6″ compacted base. 40km tracked classic only, 15km groomed skate only, 6km packed(Island lake trail, will be tracked Friday morning) . Skating on Skaters Waltz, extension, single and double green, Kristin’s Kutoff, Suicide Hill and North Loup groomed and open for skating, all other trails tracked for classic. We are grooming on the trails this week, preparing them for the ski camp this coming weekend. Sukkerbusk, Twin Lakes, Wavy Gravy, Lucky’s Loype, Skaters Waltz and extension, Kristin’s Kutoff, Single and Double green, Suicide Hill and North Loup fresh groomed Wednesday morning.
The entire trail system has been packed/tracked or combed (including the two soccer fields and back bowl)except for the east side (4km) of Bullhead lake trail. The east side is closed until colder weather, which will freeze the thin ice areas. Roy’s Run was pack-tracked on Friday (packed with track set right at same time) today and 75% is in good condition with soft track, fresh snow on top/skier packed and other 25% is rough. We could not groom the entire loop because of water issues but still have a full complete loop using bootleg trail and forest access roads. A nice start to the season with 22″ of snow this season, so far. We are working on the trails this week preparing them for the high school Nordic ski camps. The trails are open for day skiing and the current fee is $10 to use the trails.
http://picasaweb.google.com/6birdman6/December8thTrailReportPhotos