Trails are open. A beautiful winter day on the trails, albeit a bit windy. After an early morning high of 25, temp falling to 2 degrees at 8am. Considering the weather roller coaster the past week, skiing is good. Watch for icy areas. Skate trails groomed this morning, touch up on select classic trails. A little bit of organic forest matter falling to the deck from the recent winds. Just Ski.

Use extra caution walking in the parking lots and start area which is icy. Once a short ways in the trails, conditions improve. Best classic skiing on Twin Lakes, Wavy Gravy, Rootin Tootin, JibFly and Sukkerbusk skiing well after multiple grooming passes. Best skating on North Loup and Skaters Extension loops. 

Classic trail grooming Friday morning on Sukkerbusk, Mother Hen, Sap Run, Rootin Tootin, Twin Lakes, Wavy Gravy and JibFly. Groomer mixing old crusty snow with new snow and being able to set mostly full depth track. Skate trail grooming on Skaters Waltz, North Loup and Eira Bikwadinaa hill. North Loup groomed up very nice and best trail to skate on. 

Despite the blustery conditions Thursday we worked the new snow on the skate trails and select classic trails. Base is rock solid hard after Tuesday warm up, cool down and warm up, and cool down again.

A great day hosting the 29th DL Invitational Nordic Ski meet on Tuesday. Over 400 skiers representing teams from the central and nw part of the state. (click here for results) Got very warm with high temperature at 46 before cooling down in the evening and freezing down hard. 

Skating on Skaters Waltz, the extension loops, North Loup, Single Green, Kristin’s Kutoff and Eira Bikwadinaa Hill. All other trails are tracked for classic skiing. (Please no skating on classic trails) Sukkerbusk is a great starter trail for classic which feeds the outer trails and crosses most of the inner trails providing a good “lay of the land”.  

17″ of snow so far this season. We have been grooming daily on the entire trail system the past two weeks. 

Thank you to everyone that comes to ski and supports the trails with season pass purchases. Day passes can be purchased here. A MN State trail pass is NOT required to ski at Maplelag. The Maplelag trails are self funded by operations with no grants or state funding. 

 Fat bike trails are not groomed yet. Click here for fat bike trail report.

We had a great Autumn of Fall grooming clearing leaves and debris off the trails and the new snow is packing in well with the clean deck before the snow. 

We cleared over 600 trees since the Solstice 2025 storm. Big thanks to everyone that has helped!

Compacted base on trail 2-5″. Total snowfall in December: 11″. Snowfall in November: 7″. Snowfall YTD at 18″. October precipitation (rain) at 2.7″ and around 1″ in September. Total precipitation ytd (rain) at Maplelag is at 25.12″.

Trails are open. Considering the weather roller coaster the past week, skiing is good. An inch or so of new snow the past 24 hours. Classic trail grooming this morning on Sukkerbusk, Mother Hen, Sap Run, Rootin Tootin, Twin Lakes, Wavy Gravy and JibFly. Groomer mixing old crusty snow with new snow and being able to set mostly full depth track. Skate trail grooming on Skaters Waltz, North Loup and Eira Bikwadinaa hill. North Loup groomed up very nice and best trail to skate on.

Despite the blustery conditions yesterday we worked the new snow on the skate trails and select classic trails. Base is rock solid hard after Tuesday warm up, cool down and warm up, and cool down again. Use extra caution walking in the parking lots and start area which is icy. Once a short ways in the trails, conditions improve. Best classic skiing on Twin Lake, Wavy Gravy, Rootin Tootin and Sukkerbusk skiing well after multiple grooming passes. Best skating on North Loup and Skaters Extension loops.

A great day hosting the 29th DL Invitational Nordic Ski meet on Tuesday. Over 400 skiers representing teams from the central and nw part of the state. (click here for results) Got very warm with high temperature at 46 before cooling down in the evening and freezing down hard. 

Skating on Skaters Waltz, the extension loops, North Loup, Single Green, Kristin’s Kutoff and Eira Bikwadinaa Hill. All other trails are tracked for classic skiing. (Please no skating on classic trails) Sukkerbusk is a great starter trail for classic which feeds the outer trails and crosses most of the inner trails providing a good “lay of the land”.  

17″ of snow so far this season. We have been grooming daily on the entire trail system the past two weeks. 

Thank you to everyone that comes to ski and supports the trails with season pass purchases. Day passes can be purchased here. A MN State trail pass is NOT required to ski at Maplelag. The Maplelag trails are self funded by operations with no grants or state funding. 

 Fat bike trails are not groomed yet. Click here for fat bike trail report.

We had a great Autumn of Fall grooming clearing leaves and debris off the trails and the new snow is packing in well with the clean deck before the snow. 

We cleared over 600 trees since the Solstice 2025 storm. Big thanks to everyone that has helped!

Compacted base on trail 2-5″. Total snowfall in December: 11″. Snowfall in November: 7″. Snowfall YTD at 18″. October precipitation (rain) at 2.7″ and around 1″ in September. Total precipitation ytd (rain) at Maplelag is at 25.12″.

Trails are open. A full day of grooming mixing in the new snow that fell today, around an inch or so. Groomed mostly on the skate trails and reset track on a few trails including Sukkerbusk. A ski after grooming was very nice, even with the blustery conditions. Not as noticeable deep in the woods. The little bit of new snow improving the classic skiing even where not reset today on previous set tracks which are still holding good definition. We will continue grooming Friday to have the best conditions for the weekend. Consider the roller coast weather this past week, should be a great weekend to ski. Use extra caution walking in the parking lots which are icy.

A great day hosting the 29th DL Invitational Nordic Ski meet on Tuesday. Over 400 skiers representing teams from the central and nw part of the state. (click here for results) Got very warm with high temperature at 46 before cooling down in the evening and freezing down hard. 

Skating on Skaters Waltz, the extension loops, North Loup, Single Green, Kristin’s Kutoff and Eira Bikwadinaa Hill. All other trails are tracked for classic skiing. (Please no skating on classic trails) Sukkerbusk is a great starter trail for classic which feeds the outer trails and crosses most of the inner trails providing a good “lay of the land”.  

17″ of snow so far this season. We have been grooming daily on the entire trail system the past two weeks. 

Thank you to everyone that comes to ski and supports the trails with season pass purchases. Day passes can be purchased here. A MN State trail pass is NOT required to ski at Maplelag. The Maplelag trails are self funded by operations with no grants or state funding. 

 Fat bike trails are not groomed yet. Click here for fat bike trail report.

We had a great Autumn of Fall grooming clearing leaves and debris off the trails and the new snow is packing in well with the clean deck before the snow. 

We cleared over 600 trees since the Solstice 2025 storm. Big thanks to everyone that has helped!

Compacted base on trail 2-5″. Total snowfall in December: 10″. Snowfall in November: 7″. Snowfall YTD at 17″. October precipitation (rain) at 2.7″ and around 1″ in September. Total precipitation ytd (rain) at Maplelag is at 25.12″.

Trails are open. A challenging day of skiing and grooming after yesterday’s warmth and following drop in temperatures. We spent most of the day grooming on the skate trails and also farming snow to the start area that got very icy after yesterday. We did not do any classic trail grooming, waiting to see if snow this evening. Overall a very good day of trail work and skate skiing was much improved after grooming and snow farming. We plan to be back out most of the day Thursday hopefully working in new snow. Just an inch will greatly improve conditions but regardless we will be grooming hard Thursday and Friday to have best skiing rest of the week and weekend.

A great day hosting the 29th DL Invitational Nordic Ski meet. Over 400 skiers representing teams from the central and nw part of the state. (click here for results) Got very warm with high temperature at 46 before cooling down in the evening and freezing down hard.

Skating on Skaters Waltz, the extension loops, North Loup, Single Green, Kristin’s Kutoff and Eira Bikwadinaa Hill. All other trails are tracked for classic skiing. (Please no skating on classic trails) Sukkerbusk is a great starter trail for classic which feeds the outer trails and crosses most of the inner trails providing a good “lay of the land”. 

17″ of snow so far this season. We have been grooming daily on the entire trail system the past two weeks. 

Thank you to everyone that comes to ski and supports the trails with season pass purchases. Day passes can be purchased here. A MN State trail pass is NOT required to ski at Maplelag. The Maplelag trails are self funded by operations with no grants or state funding. 

 Fat bike trails are not groomed yet. Click here for fat bike trail report.

We had a great Autumn of Fall grooming clearing leaves and debris off the trails and the new snow is packing in well with the clean deck before the snow. 

We cleared over 600 trees since the Solstice 2025 storm. Big thanks to everyone that has helped!

Compacted base on trail 2-5″. Total snowfall in December: 10″. Snowfall in November: 7″. Snowfall YTD at 16″. October precipitation (rain) at 2.7″ and around 1″ in September. Total precipitation ytd (rain) at Maplelag is at 25.12″.

Trails are open. Today we are hosting the 29th DL Invitational ski meet. Always a fun day with great energy and we are looking forward to another fun day! Trails use for the race include Poki Loki/Mother North Star, Sap Run and Skaters Waltz.

For day skiers today, please try to ski before noon to preserve the snow based on forecasted warmth today. 

All the classic trails are now tracked. Has been 4-5 years since everything was tracked this early in the year. Bullhead lake segment has a skied in track on the lake. Follow the track and pick up the grooming on the other side and full Bullhead and Bootleg loop. Thursday we set track on all the singletrack classic trails.

Skating on Skaters Waltz, the extension loops, North Loup, Single Green, Kristin’s Kutoff and Eira Bikwadinaa Hill. All other trails are tracked for classic skiing. (Please no skating on classic trails) Sukkerbusk is a great starter trail for classic which feeds the outer trails and crosses most of the inner trails providing a good “lay of the land”. 

17″ of snow so far this season. We have been grooming daily on the entire trail system the past two weeks. 

Thank you to everyone that comes to ski and supports the trails with season pass purchases. Day passes can be purchased here. A MN State trail pass is NOT required to ski at Maplelag. The Maplelag trails are self funded by operations with no grants or state funding. 

 Fat bike trails are not groomed yet. Click here for fat bike trail report.

We had a great Autumn of Fall grooming clearing leaves and debris off the trails and the new snow is packing in well with the clean deck before the snow. 

We cleared over 600 trees since the Solstice 2025 storm. Big thanks to everyone that has helped!

Total snowfall in December: 10″. Snowfall in November: 7″. Snowfall YTD at 16″. October precipitation (rain) at 2.7″ and around 1″ in September. Total precipitation ytd (rain) at Maplelag is at 25.12″.