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Ski Trail

Ski Trail Report

Trails are open. An inch or so of new snow the past 24 hours. Grooming resuming this morning after a full day yesterday working the new snow on the skate trails and select classic trails. Grooming this morning planned on more classic trails and also the skate trails. Base is rock solid hard after Tuesday warm up, cool down and warm up, and cool down again. Despite the roller coaster week of weather, should be a great weekend to ski!  Use extra caution walking in the parking lots and start area which is icy. Once a ways in the woods, conditions improve.

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″.

Resetting track on Sukkerbusk, December 18th, 2025. Any track not set is improved with the fresh snow, albeit a bit slower until skied in. 
Grooming on Skaters Waltz extension mixing new snow with the frozen granulated base, December 18th, 2025. Best skating will be on the skater extension loops and North Loup. 
Ski at dusk on Sukkerbusk, nice conditions and skiing in the woods, December 18th, 2025.
Skiing past the “Maplelag Moose”, December 18th, 2025.
Resetting one track on Mother North Star, December 18th, 2025. We will be resetting one track on the double track today and tomorrow and leaving the other set track (which remains well formed) with dusting of snow on top to be skied in. 
Afternoon skate ski, December 17th, 2025. Icy in the morning, much better in afternoon after grooming. 
Beaver off track?
Building up the base in the start area, December 17th, 2025.
Start of the girls varsity race, DL Invite, December 16th, 2025. 
Start of the girls junior varsity race, DL Invite December 16th, 2025.
Boys Varsity start DL Invite, December 16th, 2025.
Final day of ski camp for St Paul Highland Park Nordic ski team, December 14th, 2025. Nice job skiing in the cold this weekend!
Roy’s Run, December 14th, 2025.
Rootin Tootin trail, December 14th, 2025.
SP Highland Park skiers putting in a full day of skiing despite the cool temps, December 13th, 2025.
SP Highland Park skiers putting in a full day of skiing despite the cool temps, December 13th, 2025.
Saturday smiles. Great day on the trails, December 13th, 2025.
Magical afternoon on the trails, December 12th, 2025.
Afternoon sun dogs, December 12th, 2025.
Hill repeats on Eira Bikwadinaa hill, St Paul Highland Park skiers , December 12th, 2025.