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Ski Trail Report

Great morning of late season skiing. Hard freeze overnight setting up the grooming nicely. We have been grooming a 4km loop and skiing has been good considering the time of year. No other trails will be groomed with all the branches that came down with the wind and the time of the year. Total new snow this week around 10″.

With cooler temps skiing should be good on this loop Friday and Saturday mornings and possibly Sunday if not too much melting Saturday afternoon and it freezes down again Saturday night.

Skiing both directions makes for a nice loop and for this late in the year, special to have such nice conditions! The loop consists of east side of Skaters Waltz and Sukkerbusk. No bare spots, just a few low areas slushy, ski wide, all good.

There is no trail fee to ski the remainder of the season. Please park in parking lot near the lodge. Far parking lot is soft and muddy!

With this weeks grooming in April, this is the 6th consecutive calendar month we have groomed this season. First grooming was back on November 13th, 2021.

Season total of snowfall is at 113″ and close to the record snowfall in a season at Maplelag. Considering the dry summer and fall, the precipitation will bring the water tables back up to normal when the snow all melts and the frost goes out.

Mid afternoon ski, April 7th, 2022.
Skaters Waltz mid afternoon, April 7th, 2022.
Twin Lakes crossing, April 7th, 2022. See the mink on the left! Water levels back to normal in this area.
Mink on the move, April 7th, 2022.
Ginzu grooming on the “late season” loop, April 7th, 2022.
Only open water on Little Sugarbush is the plunge hole! Sunset, April 7th, 2022.
Enjoying the fresh snow on top of fresh grooming late afternoon, April 6, 2022.
Grooming on Skaters Waltz, April 6th, 2022.
Grooming though the skinny field on Sukkerbusk, April 6th, 2022.
Skaters Waltz, April 6th, 2022.
Lots of branches and limbs to clear after snow load, April 6th, 2022.
Fresh snow on Loon Return ski trail, April 6th, 2022.

Ski Trail Report

Winter marches on! Total new snow this week around 10″. We have been grooming a 4km loop and skiing has been good considering the wet conditions during the snowfall. Cooler temps this morning freezing down the base a bit improving the skiing and grooming conditions. We groomed again this morning on this 4km loop. No other trails will be groomed with all the branches that came down with the wind and the time of the year.

With cooler temps skiing should be good on this loop Friday and Saturday mornings. Skiing both directions makes for a nice loop and for this late in the year, special to have such nice conditions! The loop consists of east side of Skaters Waltz and Sukkerbusk. No bare spots, just a few low areas slushy, ski wide, all good.

There is no trail fee to ski the remainder of the season. Please park in parking lot near the lodge. Far parking lot is soft and muddy!

With this weeks grooming in April, this is the 6th consecutive calendar month we have groomed this season. First grooming was back on November 13th, 2021.

Season total of snowfall is at 113″ and close to the record snowfall in a season at Maplelag. Considering the dry summer and fall, the precipitation will bring the water tables back up to normal when the snow all melts and the frost goes out.

Mid afternoon ski, April 7th, 2022.
Skaters Waltz mid afternoon, April 7th, 2022.
Twin Lakes crossing, April 7th, 2022. See the mink on the left! Water levels back to normal in this area.
Ginzu grooming on the “late season” loop, April 7th, 2022.
Enjoying the fresh snow on top of fresh grooming late afternoon, April 6, 2022.
Grooming on Skaters Waltz, April 6th, 2022.
Grooming though the skinny field on Sukkerbusk, April 6th, 2022.
Skaters Waltz, April 6th, 2022.
Lots of branches and limbs to clear after snow load, April 6th, 2022.
Fresh snow on Loon Return ski trail, April 6th, 2022.

Trail Report

Winter marches on! As of 8 pm on Wednesday, around 5-6″ of heavy wet snow. A snowy week after 3-4″ of snow yesterday morning. Temps are staying around the freezing mark and with cold weather in the forecast, we are grooming around 4km of trail for late season skate skiing. Many branches and limbs coming down with snow load we will only focus on this amount of trail. Skiing on Wednesday evening was good, all things considered, and should be nice skiing Thursday morning. We will be out grooming again in the morning and with cooler temps skiing should be good on this loop Friday and Saturday mornings as well. Skiing both directions makes for a nice loop and for this late in the year, special to have such nice conditions! The loop consists of east side of Skaters Waltz and Sukkerbusk. No bare spots, just a few low areas slushy, ski wide, all good.

There is no trail fee to ski the remainder of the season. Please park in parking lot near the lodge. Far parking lot is soft and muddy!

With today’s grooming in April, this is the 6th consecutive calendar month we have groomed this season. First grooming was back on November 13th, 2021.

With today’s snowfall as of 10am, this brings our season total of snowfall to 112″ and close to the record snowfall in a season at Maplelag. Considering the dry summer and fall, the precipitation will bring the water tables back up to normal when the snow all melts and the frost goes out.

Enjoying the fresh snow on top of fresh grooming late afternoon, April 6, 2022.
Grooming on Skaters Waltz, April 6th, 2022.
Grooming though the skinny field on Sukkerbusk, April 6th, 2022.
Skaters Waltz, April 6th, 2022.
Lots of branches and limbs to clear after snow load, April 6th, 2022.
Fresh snow on Loon Return ski trail, April 6th, 2022.

Trail Report

Heavy wet snow this morning accumulating to around 3-4″. Skiing was slow going but bottom line we could still ski! With today’s snow we are now up to 106″ of snowfall on the season. The snow and base is very wet and once it cools down again we will try and get one or two more grooming sessions in for the season. Looking at the forecast, best chance for grooming appears to be on Thursday. If cooler temps occur in the forecast we could have a couple nice mornings of skiing on Friday and Saturday, especially if more snow develops.

Monday was another spectacular end of season skiing after a hard freeze set the base up nicely. Skiing was very good from 10am-12pm before getting softer and slower.

Skating in wet new snow, April 5th, 2022.
Making tracks through the skinny field, April 5th, 2022.
North Loup, April 5th, 2022.
Skaters Waltz early afternoon, April 4th, 2022.
North Loup, April 4th, 2022.