Rain turned over to snow around 11am. Accumulation has been light with maybe two inches accumulating on the trails. This is better than rain!! The snow and base is soft/wet all the way to the ground. It will take around 12 hours or so before we can run any equipment on the trails as the base needs to freeze down. The trails are holding up fine and skiing right now is springlike skiing conditions. A handful of folks out on the trails today using no wax skis and skiing was reported better than expected. The warmer temps keeping the snow soft and trails skiable after hard and icy yesterday morning. Once it cools down again, it will get hard and very icy. We are hoping to work in a bit of new snow but either way will be grooming what we can to make the trails the best possible condition for skiing once it cools down again. Photos from yesterday.

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An incredibly gorgeous morning on the trails capping off a nice weekend on the trails. Sun filtered through the trees that were loaded with frost. Light wind from the south giving way to warmer temps near 35 after a early morning low down to 9 degrees. Fresh grooming on Skaters Waltz and new track set on Sukkerbusk and North Loup. Between Friday and Sunday, the entire trail system was groomed 1-2 times and a 4km loop was tracked on the lake to accommodate a request for a track on the lake and reports from folks skiing on the lake were very good. The trails held up well with the southern exposed areas a bit icylike and overall fast conditions.  Skin conditions good to excellent. Interesting weather on tap through Tuesday. We are holding on nicely to a base of 6-10″. Any moisture other than snow should be absorbed and hopefully a bit of snow at the end of the system. Once things settle down, we will work the snow over to provide the best skiing conditions possible.

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Bit cooler today with early morning low at 16 degrees, overcast and frosted trees. Chance of light snow this afternoon. Fresh grooming on 12 trails: Skaters Waltz, Sukkerbusk, Sap Run, Mother Hen, JibFly, Rootin Tootin, Mother North Star, Roy’s Run, Single Green, Double Green and the left track fresh groomed on Twin Lakes and Wavy Gravy. Trails groomed up relatively nice with some areas about as good as it gets and other areas still a bit icylike/glazed/crunchy, mainly the southern exposed areas. Areas of leaves and forest matter.  All in all should be some nice skiing today and tomorrow and any new snow will enhance the conditions. Grooming on Sunday planned on North Loup and Sukkerbusk with new tracks , and a touch up on Skaters Waltz down the middle.