Tuesday’s conditions

Just coming in from tonights grooming. We groomed multiple passes on Bluberry, Bards, Meadow Ridge and Cherry. They were smooth with the Ginzu and are a cordoroy surface with thin areas of some grass coming up here and there as pictured. We also groomed this morning and trackset River Popple  and Pit Point using a low snow track setter. The areas that had grass showing were shoveld in. Hemlock Jack Pine and White Pine were groomed flat with no track for the skiers to ski in a track. Coverage on these was good (see picture) with a bare aspot going in to the pines like other years. In the morning we plan to groom more skating and set some more track. We have had cold nights, it is 26 now and not had  melting. We plan to be open Thanksgving Day and over the weekend. I see the forecasts calling for some warming but I do believe we can provide early season skiing over the weekend.

Track set

We set 5 km of tracks this morning and will set more later , trails are shaping up. we have a thin base but it is very skiable

Daily update

We had another good day of skiing today. The snow is holding up well. Lots of happy skiers today. We are being conservative on the grooming to conserve the snow.

Skiing today

The new 10-12 inches of snow groomed up (rolled out) quite well. We rolled 26.5 km for skating and 40 km for striding. I can not remember an opening day with the condiitons being so good. Even Sulos Loop was skiing well. The heavy dense snow over frozen ground made for a nice base. Skiers were happy with condiitons today. We hope to roll in some classic tracks in the next day or so.

Open Sunday

We received 8-10 inches of snow so far today and the groomers have been out. The trails will be open Sunday at 9 AM.