Trails are open. We wrapped up our fourth weekend of skiing and grooming of this season with the final day of the St Paul Highland Park ski team ski camp. We have been hosting SP Highland Park since the first year we started doing ski camps nearly 25 years ago and always appreciate the energy and admire the big kilometers logged by the older skiers and seeing new skiers progress with skills and development.
“Warmest” day of the week today with temperatures right around the freezing mark but no change in the base. Trees remaining frosty all day indicating the temperature as reported. Tracks are well used on the inner trails from the busy day on Saturday, skiing fast on a hard base but still providing nice early season skiing. Despite being one of the more common trails skied, Sukkerbusk holding good form with decent early season tracks. We have been grooming daily since freezing down hard after last Sunday’s warmth and rain
Friday 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 very skiable. Lots of animal tracks!
Classic only skiing on trails with machine set tracks: Sukkerbusk, Sap Run, JibFly, Mother Hen, Rootin Tootin, Mother North Star and Loon Return. Twin Lakes, Wavy Gravy and the first and last part of Island Lake trail now tracked as well. Use caution on the hills.
Skating on Skater Waltz, the extension of Skater Waltz and North Loup. Note: North Loup still has some rough areas on the downhills, use extra caution.
Please do not skate on trails outside of the designated skate trails. 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. We also farmed snow to Skaters Waltz on Tuesday on the areas that see more snowplowing.
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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Fat Bike Trails are open. Click here for report.
