Trails are open. A beautiful morning 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. 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.
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. An inch or so of new snow on Thursday.
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. 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″.
