Trails are open. Today we will be grooming the courses to be used for the 29th DL Invitational ski meet on Tuesday December 16th. Trails use for the race include Poki Loki/Mother North Star, Sap Run and Skaters Waltz.
For day skiers on Tuesday, please try to ski before noon to preserved the snow based on forecasted warmth Tuesday.
A great weekend of skiing! The tracks are skiing very well and skate deck on Skaters Waltz is firm and skiing good for the cooler weather. Nice job to the St Paul Highland Park Nordic Ski team members skiing this weekend in the cold.
All the classic trails are now tracked. Has been 4-5 years since everything was tracked this early in the year. Bullhead lake segment has a skied in track on the lake. Follow the track and pick up the grooming on the other side and full Bullhead and Bootleg loop. Thursday we set track on all the singletrack classic trails.
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”.
Monday we will be grooming the courses to be used for the 29th DL Invitational ski meet on Tuesday December 16th. Trails use for the race include Poki Loki/Mother North Star, Sap Run and Skaters Waltz. For day skiers, please try to ski before noon to preserved the snow based on forecasted warmth Tuesday.
Around 8-9″ of new snow this week, 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.
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”.
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!
Total snowfall in December: 10″. Snowfall in November: 7″. Snowfall YTD at 16″. October precipitation (rain) at 2.7″ and around 1″ in September. Total precipitation ytd (rain) at Maplelag is at 25.12″.
