The North Star Ski Touring Club has been coming to Maplelag for almost 30 years. Typically the first ones and last ones on the trail during the day!! Mother North Star ski trail is named after one of the founding members of the club, Ginny McWethy.
A beautiful morning. Trees frosted nicely and light winds to start the day with mid teens for temp. Fresh Pisten Bully grooming on Mother North Star and Mother Hen and Skaters Waltz Ginzu groomed this morning. Fantastic conditions. 1-2″ fluff snow the past 24 hours. Grooming Saturday night/early Sunday morning on Sukkerbusk, Sap Run, Mother Hen, JibFly, Rootin Tootin, Lucky’s Loype, Bullhead, Roy’s Run, North Loup, Loon Return, Island Lake, Wavy Gravy, Twin lakes, Skaters Waltz and Skaters Waltz extension. Compacted base of 6-10″ and snow depth in woods 14-30″.
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A beautiful winter day. Fluffy snow falling, mid teens for temps and wind blowing nicely from the northwest. Fresh grooming this morning on Loon Return, Sukkerbusk, Twin Lakes, Wavy Gravy, Rootin Tootin, Sap Run, Mother Hen and a track set on the side of North Loup. Early reports from the trail all good and a excellent day of skiing on tap. A few areas of drifting but most of the trails protected nicely and some great skiing on tap. All the trails have been groomed the past two days except Roy’s Run and Island Lake and these two trails on tap for grooming Sunday morning.
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After a very early morning low of -33, temp warmed up nicely to 7 above. Sunny and clear to start the day followed by clouds and some light snow late. Grooming today on Sap Run, Mother Hen, Sukkerbusk, JibFly, Mother North Star, Bullhead and bootleg extension, Lucky’s Loype, Skaters Waltz and Skaters extension and North Loup. Grooming planned Saturday morning on Loon Return, Twin Lakes, Wavy Gravy, Rootin Tootin and a new track will be set on North Loup (which is groomed for skate and classic). Skiing conditions are rated excellent on a compated base of 8-10″ and snow depth in the woods 16-24″. Sunday morning grooming planned on Roy’s Run and Island Lake trails. A great MLK weekend of skiing on tap!
Another cold morning with early morning temp at -33. Not quite as cold as Tuesday morning. Looks like one more day of frigid temps before we rebound to warmer weather. Grooming on hold today until it warms up a bit more. A dusting of snow on the trails that will be worked in and conditions should remain excellent. Current tracks are solid and well defined but grooming will clean things up. Skiing has been doable bundling up and taking shorter loops. Skating has been very slow with the cold snow but classic good.
