Trails are open. A nice day of “spring skiing” on tap. Expect faster conditions before 10am and softening around 11am or so. Looks to be a bit warmer today and snow should soften a little bit sooner compared to the past few days. We will be grooming later afternoon and early evening.
Track grooming Wednesday on Sap Run, Sukkerbusk, Rootin Tootin, North Loup and Bullhead Bootleg. Skate grooming on Skaters Waltz and North Loup skate lane. Grooming bringing up drier/powdery/silky snow and taking off the hardness edge. Yesterday all other trails were groomed except Island Lake.
The snow has transformed after a warm day on Monday followed by a hard freeze Tuesday. The conditions of the snow along with our deep base, bodes well for what looks to be warmer days on the weekend as we have transitioned to spring conditions. For us, Spring Skiing is some of our favorite skiing of the year! We have a great base of seasoned snow going back to mid November. The bottom four inches of the compacted base acting like a refrigerant. We look to freeze nicely each night during this little warm spell which is key. Moving forward, with spring conditions, generally the best time to ski, provided it warms up to 35-38 degrees, is from 10am to 2pm and suggest skiing during this time frame.
We will continue grooming daily, as conditions dictate, working on select trails each day to have fresh tracks and always try to have the main trails Sukkerbusk and Sap Run in best condition possible.
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”.
We have also have a loop on Little Sugarbush Lake “Lumi’s Loop” with a skate lane and track on each side. This is a fun 1.2km loop that makes for a fun ski at sunrise and sunset and under the full moon! Groomed 2/10
43″ of snow so far this season. We have been grooming daily on the entire trail system since mid November, only missing a few days.
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. 18 and under day pass is $15, use the summer trail pass option.
Ski rentals are available at a rate of $25 for adults and $15 for 18 and under. Snowshoe rental is $10 a person. There is no charge for children 6 and under.
Snowfall YTD at 43″ Compacted base on trail 5-8″. Total snowfall in February 4″. January at 15″. December: 17″. Snowfall in November: 7″. October precipitation (rain) at 2.7″ and around 1″ in September. Total precipitation ytd (rain) at Maplelag is at 25.12″.
