Trails are open. A beautiful sunny day on tap with much warmer temperatures today. Today we set a track on Roy’s Run for the first time this year and touched up Skaters Waltz. Most of Roy’s groomed up nice with full depth track, some rough and thin areas, as expected, for early season but the second half seemed to have more snow and tracked a little better. Lots of animal tracks!
We have been grooming daily this week even in the sub zero air temperatures. Recommend classic skiing on trails with machine set tracks: Sap Run, JibFly, Mother Hen, Rootin Tootin, Mother North Star and Sukkerbusk. Twin Lakes, Wavy Gravy and the first and last part of Island Lake trail now tracked as well. Use caution on the hills. Skating recommend on Skater Waltz and the extension of Skater Waltz. Please do not skate on trails outside of Skaters Waltz and Skaters Waltz extension. Thank you!
Thursday we set a track on Twin Lakes and Wavy Gravy to Mac’s Mess than took Island Lake return to make a loop. It is passable through the Twin Lakes on Wavy Gravy but we need a few more inches of snow to groom through there. It has been skier tracked but snow has blown in since. The skate lanes on Skaters Waltz, the extension of Skaters and North Loup groomed Thursday. Note: North Loup still has some rough areas on the downhills, use extra caution.
Wednesday we set new track for the first time on Mother Hen, Mother North Star and Rootin Tootin. Shallow to mid depth track, soft edges. Sap Run, Sukkerbusk and JibFly also reset. We also farmed snow to Skaters Waltz on Tuesday on the areas that see more snowplowing.
We survived the warm weather and rain on Sunday just fine and the rain actually helped solidify the base.
Early season conditions. Use a little extra caution. We have been grooming and skiing since November 20th. 11″ of snowfall this season, compacted base on trail 1-3″. The ground was very warm when the first snow fell and much melted off but grooming and cold temps helping set frost into the ground. Snow depth in woods 4-6″
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