A great weekend on the trails with good reports from skiers hitting the tracks. Hard to believe it is early December. It looks and feels like mid January. Light snows off and on over the weekend including Sunday night accumulating to 3-4″ of very light fluffy snow. Beautiful to ski in. The trails are taking great shape and pretty much in mid winter conditions! Very good to excellent early season. 60 of 64km packed/tracked/combed. 3-6″ compacted base. 35km tracked classic only, 15km groomed skate only, 10km packed (open for technique of choice).
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 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 20″ of snow this season, so far. We will be 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.
Winter wonderland conditions in the woods right now. Two inches of fresh snow Friday night/early Saturday morning and a inch of fluff Saturday night/Sunday morning and flurries continue to linger Sunday morning. Starting to add up! The trees are flocked beautifully with snow. The trails are taking great shape and pretty much in mid winter conditions! Very good to excellent early season. 60 of 64km packed/tracked/combed. 3-6″ compacted base. 35km tracked classic only, 15km groomed skate only, 10km packed (open for technique of choice).
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. Sukkerbusk, Wavy Gravy, Rootin Tootin, Sap Run fresh tracked this morning and Skaters Waltz combed for skating. Track on Wavy is a bit soft and a few rough spots at Twin lakes pass crossing but otherwise is trail of the day for Sunday with beautiful flocked snow. 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 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. Trail fee is $10 for this weekend A great start to the season with 20″ of snow this season, so far.
Winter wonderland conditions in the woods right now. Two inches of fresh snow Friday night/early Saturday morning. The trees are flocked beautifully with snow. The trails are taking great shape and pretty much in mid winter conditions! Very good to excellent early season. 60 of 64km packed/tracked/combed. 3-6″ compacted base. 30km tracked classic only, 15km groomed skate only, 15km packed (open for technique of choice).
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. Lucky’s Loype, JibFly and Rootin Tootin fresh tracked this morning. Roy’s Run was pack-tracked (packed with track set right at same time) today and 75% is in good condition with soft track 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. We will reset tracks in the morning on select trails if an inch or more new snow and skate lanes will be cleaned on Skaters Waltz. Trail fee is $10 for this weekend A great start to the season with almost 19″ of snow this season, so far.
Winter wonderland conditions in the woods right now. The trees are flocked beautifully with snow. The trails are taking great shape and pretty much in mid winter conditions! 52 of 64km of the trail system has been packed and tracks set on 5km of trail. We will be setting tracks on about 15km of trail today. The compacted base is 3-5″. A great start to the season with almost 17″ of snow this season, so far.
