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!!
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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
Trail Report
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.
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