Pig Heart and Crasher groomed all the combination trails with both Pisten Bullies, except the dog trails this morning, Conditions looked great, Widetrack groomed the single tracks except Puumala. All 95 km are skiing well. Kaartunen House just had a cancelation and is open Jand 23-26 4 nights. Jackson Farm House is open Jan 18- Jan 24th and then again Feb 1-6
Saturday 7 PM post SISU
We had the ABR crew out this morning at 4:30 AM tilling up the SISU Trail into town with our Pisten Bullies (and Loader for road crossings.) We worked well with the SISU Ski Fest Team, including Coleman Engineering on the road crossings and the Routsala Construction on stock piling clean snow, Gogebic Community College Ski Area Management director took care of the last 1/2 km rough groomed in (huge snowbanks to a ski trail), and a big thank you to the Miners Park Trail for the prepacking early season.
The course turned out very good. But please remember it is not me doing all the work, or ABR Trails, it is several groups and businesses that contribute to the course preparation.
It was fun to sweep the trail at 2 PM and see the course after 700+ skiers skied it, see the road crossing teams and see the Finnish Line.
It was sad to close up the 5 gates (for now) that link ABR to Ironwood and on to Ramsey. Check out the Non profit Foundation for our future ..
Check out the www.andersonbluffsrivertrailsfoundation.org
We have a crew regrooming in the early AM Sunday as you would expect. The Bullies are heading out on combination trails and Wide track taking care of single tracks,
Friday pre SISU 4 :30 PM
We are just getting ready to head back out and Final groom the first 20 km of the SISU 30 k course. We groomed the entire 30 k course again with 2 passes with the Pisten Bullys today. The course seems to be firm. There are no bare spots or rocks showing.
new snow tonight
Thursday 7:30 PM
We asked a few SISU members and friends to pray for snow last week…. Stop praying please. We have received 14-18 inches of snow over the last few days. The 6 groomer operators have been going long shifts and the Frontend Loader/plow driver too. I am very lucky to work with such a skilled and dedicated team. The skiers and racers hardly see them but give them a thumbs up or High 5 when you do.
We groomed all of ABR this morning and headed into town to groom SISU Ski Fest Race course. The SISU Race course is looking great.
Day skier trails for Saturday are looking good also. Remember the race course is open for day skiers about 12 noon. Classic only trails except Jack Pine are open at 9 AM. …about 35 km , Skating will be limited to Deer Trail, Pelty, and Dog trails will be open for skating/striding at 9 AM .
SISU Racers follow the SISU Ski Fest website for questions it is a great website with all the details.