A great day to be outside for the skiers at Maplelag this weekend. Frosty trees providing a nice background for skiers on the lake and handful hitting the better sections of trail, mainly on Suicide Hill. Did feel a bit raw with high humidity and a breeze from the East but all in all a nice day. Forecasts still calling for big time snow tonight on through Monday morning. We will be happy with any snow we do get and are ready to groom the trails.

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Flurries off and on with temps in the teens today. Another dusting of accumulation. Loop on lake groomed this morning. This afternoon, Nordic teams from Minneapolis Southwest and Wayzata came to Maplelag for a training camp. The kids have been skiing on the lake and working on technique and endurance. The storm forecasted for Saturday night and Sunday looking better all the time. We don’t want to get our hopes up too high but we are ready to pack out any new snow that does fall and get the trails in good skiing condition. We flooded the rink one more time this morning and the skating surface is getting good with a few bumps here and there. We will flood surface a few more times when we can.

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Few flakes of snow in the air this morning. A dusting of new snow the past 24 hours. Thirty degree temp change in 12 hours as we went from a high of 30 yesterday to 0 degrees this morning. Grooming on the lake today with some tracks set in the deeper snow. Grooming again on the lake in the morning. Also groomed a loop that we have been skiing on that includes better section of trail. The base is very very thin and rock skis are in order. The ice rink was flooded again today and skating has been fair to good and should improve with more floodings.  We are keeping our eye on a possible storm this weekend.

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