Awesome start for 2016! Sunshine and lower 20’s with “hero snow” making for great skiing. Frosty winter wonderland conditions on Monday.  Most recent grooming on Skaters Waltz and Suicide Hill, and new track set on Rootin Tootin.  Skiing being reported good to excellent. (Thanks for skiers filing a trail report) We will continue daily grooming until the last day of the season provided conditions warrant. We do not groom just to groom but only if to improve the conditions. We do not have a deep base of snow but for the snow we have, skiing is very good.

Trails that have been groomed and open with tracks set: Sukkerbusk, Twin Lakes, North Loup, Root Tootin, Mother North Star, Sap Run and JibFly.  Skaters Waltz, the extension and North Loup open and groomed for skating.  Please no skating on trails other than Skaters Waltz, the extension of Skaters and North Loup. Other trails are open for “bush whack skiing” Wavy Gravy, Roy’s Run, Lucky’s Loype and Island Lake. Open for bush whack/make your own track skiing. Please note portions of certain bushwhack trails will not be groomed this year due to change in the lease on AMA property.

Total snowfall since December 15th=10″, compacted base on trail 2-4″. All trails have sections of very good coverage and few short sections with some rough spots. Ski with caution and enjoy! Total snowfall since December 1st, 16″. Total snowfall since November 20th= 18″. We had a warm spell that melted most of the snow from November 20th and December 1st other than the north facing areas. First grooming of the season on November 20th after 2″ of snowfall.

Check out the new Maplelag weather station for current temps and weather trend.

The trails are open for public day skiing. Trail access pass is $15. Ski rental is $15 a day. After January 3rd, lunch will be available for day skiers by reservation. Contact us to reserve and for pricing.

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Merry Christmas! Light fluffy snow falling Thursday morning with a couple of inches coating every little branch and twig. Trees flocked nicely with frost, beautiful morning! Grooming yesterday morning on the skate trails and a few of the classic trails. A fun day on the trails yesterday with the local HS hockey team out for a team building ski and Holiday guests enjoying the upper 20 temps and silky snow. Grooming on 20km of trail. We had a quick moving band of snow move through Tuesday dropping over just an inch of damp snow. We started packing the snow right away in the open and start areas than hit up Skaters Waltz and Suicide Hill. We also groomed 4 classic trails, setting track where the coverage was better and lifting the track setter where thin. Total km of track set around 7km. The new snow groomed in really nice on Skaters Waltz and we were able to disperse the damp snow in some of the low spots etc. and also leveling the trail a bit. The tracks should set up with the cooler temps snow.

Trails active this week and past weekend with skiers from high school teams for ski camp. The trails held up well to the high volume of skier traffic….nearly 3000 skier passes on Skaters Waltz! The reports good  from the skiers. Kids happy and smiling to be on snow! Some kids logging nearly 100km of skiing over the weekend, skiing before breakfast, in between meals and night skiing! Great work to all the skiers and coaches.

Trails that have been groomed and open: Skating only on Skaters Waltz, the extension and North Loup. North Loup has a few rough sections and caution must be used with “rock skis”. Packed and groomed but with no tracks for  classic skiing on Sap Run, Sukkerbusk, Rootin Tootin, Twin Lakes and JibFly. Other trails are open for “bush whack skiing” except Bullhead lake. The lakes are to be avoided with un safe ice. Wavy Gravy, Roy’s Run, and Island Lake open for bush whack/make your own track skiing.

Total snowfall since December 15th=8″, compacted base on trail 1-4″. All trails have sections of good coverage and sections with some rough spots. Early season conditions, ski with caution and enjoy! Total snowfall since December 1st, 14″.

Check out the new Maplelag weather station for current temps and weather trends.

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We received around 3″ of snow the past 24 hours. As of 6pm Wednesday, still some flurries swirling around as the cold front pushes through. Definitely some of the coolest weather we have seen in a while! We packed and groomed about 20km, spending most of the day grooming Skaters Waltz minus the kamikaze section and also Sukkerbusk. Not enough new snow to set tracks but Sukkerbusk will be fine for no track classic skiing and the main loop of Skaters Waltz ok for skating. We are preparing these two trails to be in the best condition possible for the High School Nordic ski camp this coming weekend.

A check of the trails skate skiing late afternoon found nice early season skiing with a few rough spots. With the expected high volume of skier traffic, there will be some rough spots to open up but ski with caution, avoid the dark spots and should hold up okay. Skating allowed on Skaters Waltz and the extension. All other trails will be classic, no tracks set. We packed out North Loup but need a few more inches to have safe skiing there.

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Despite another warm weekend, we are still hanging on to some coverage on the trails. Over the weekend had a few flakes of snow, no rain, and the ground is frozen with frost 6″ down. A check of the trails late Sunday found some trails better than others including the main 4km loop of Skaters Waltz which has coverage the entire loop with a combined 300 meter section spotty coverage. (The area we have worked on this week, farming snow to). Sukkerbusk another early season trail we are ready to get in good skiing condition once the next snowfall occurs. We have hauled in a few more loads of snow including a few loads from the local ice arena.

With the base that remains from snow last week, it won’t take much fresh snow and proper grooming to have the trails open again for skiing. Think Snow!

We have installed a personal weather station and local weather information with switchyard cam can be found be clicking here.

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