Another 3-4″ overnight bringing the two day total of snowfall around 8″. Light snow falling off and on Friday with 2-5″ additional forecasted.  A bit warmer today so the snow is sticky and was a bit challenging to pack out early on but a few adjustments allowing the snow to pack out great and fantastic snow to build the base. We will resume packing the trails today and continue as the snow falls. Folks out on the trails enjoying the fresh snow and making their own tracks. We will set a few tracks this afternoon but hold off until the snow stops and possible wind.  Skating a bit soft but will eventually set up with more packing and cooler temps. Beautiful in the woods. The wind doesn’t seem to be a factor. We can see across the lake, folks traveling from the south are reporting winter driving conditions and the temps are almost balmy. The snow is sticky so it doesn’t blow around as much as dry fluffy snow.

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Around 4″ of fresh snow during the night and light snow continues to fall. We will be packing this new snow during the day today.  We will continue packing the snow until the storm stops and hopefully set tracks once the weather settles down, most likely on Saturday or Sunday.  The snow looks to have good moisture content and should be a good shot of snow to build up a nice base and greatly improve the conditions.

A beautiful start to the week with sunny skies, light winds and temps in the teens. The trees frosted lightly this morning making for nice conditions outside. Families staying at Maplelag this week enjoying a little skiing on the trails despite the thin snow cover.  Breck Nordic ski team having fun on the lake with ski games and ice skating rink seeing lots of action. We are keeping our eye on a potential Christmas storm!! It won’t take much new snow to resume grooming and greatly improve the ski conditions.

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