Between 8-10″ of light, fluffy snow falling yesterday at Maplelag. We begin packing the trails and things are looking great. Beautiful in the woods…winter wonderland!! We skied last night under the moonlight and it was very nice. The snow is soft but a great start to the season to begin building the base. Chance of more snow tomorrow and Thursday. The trails will be open for skiing but no lodging is available until December. Early season, rock skiing conditions.
Nice, steady snow falling this morning at Maplelag. As of 2:30 pm, close to 8″ has already fallen!! Very light, fluffy snow with the cold temps. Latest forecasts calling for 6-10″!! Around 18km of trail packed today so far and packing bit more this afternoon. The trails will be open for skiing but no lodging is available until December. Early season, rock skiing conditions.
Starting to look and feel a little bit more like winter. Dusting of snow overnight and cold temps setting up good ice on the ponds and low areas that are holding water. Ice thick enough on the ponds for some skating! Forecast looking great for snow chances this coming week with a possible big storm right before Thanksgiving!! As soon as we have 2-3″ on the trails, we will begin packing snow and building the base. We continue to work on the trails, clearing sticks to prepare them for the first snows.
Not much weather to report for the week other than cold temps continue to set frost in the ground and ice on the ponds and sloughs. This is ideal before the snow flies for real! Chance of snow on the weekend and early next week. A snowfall of 2-3″ and we will begin packing the snow and hopefully open a few trails for early season skiing. We are fine tuning the trails as much as we can before the ground turns to white!
Think Snow!!
Ice setting up on Kohlepp pond. Colder temps freezing down the ground nicely and setting up ice on the ponds and sloughs. Sukkerbusk ski trail ready for snow.
The big storm hitting Minnesota and Wisconsin is staying south of us. Did have temps in the 20’s last night which set up more ice on the ponds and slough and ice on the edge of the smaller lakes. The freezing temps are ideal to set up the ground before the snow flies for real. The trails are looking great other than a few more branches to clear after the storm that dropped around 4″ of snow the end of October. Deer hunting continues until this weekend and the trails are closed during this time. Hopefully snow in a few weeks and we can open up for some early season skiing!!
Trails are also closed for mountain biking unless they remain snow free after deer hunting and will open again until the snow comes including the new singletrack at Twin lakes. The leaves remain clear for the most part on the singletrack and go into the next season in great shape.
