We received about 5 inches of snow so far. The 4 person groom team was out from 6 – noon. We are grooming all 95 km. The trails are really leveling out well and the coverage is quite good. 5 groomers heading back out tommorow am at 6 am.
Saturday 4 :30 PM
We had a great day of skiing today, The base is holding up fine, We groomed about 60 km of skate lanes this morning, and we skied on 30 km of skate trails and had 47 km of classic tracks set. With the snow forecast for Sunday I think we can open all 94 km for skiing next week. Forecast is calling for 6 inches of snow from 6 AM to midnight Sunday. Groomers are coming in at 6 AM and we will continue grooming until noon.
Friday 5:30 PM
The new snow really helped the trail conditions this morning. We groomed about 15 km and the temps got up to 32 and too sticky to continue so the skiers skiied in the new 1 inch of snow. We are sending a 3 person groomer team out at 6-9 AM to groom Saturday. We are skiing on 45 km of trails with early season conditions.
Thursday 7:00 PM Good news/bad news.
Good News: The warm temps did not melt the base! The main trails were very skiable today. It is 30 degrees and the base is freezing. We have a 3 person groomer team lined up for early AM grooming. Flat trails with limited hills are listed in order: Deer Trail, Jacks Flats, Cherry, Blueberry 2 way, Warm up Loop. River Trail w bypass, PitPoint w bypass, Memory Lane, Jack Pine. That is about 45 km
Bad news: I do not see us opening the Highlands for the weekend. We are closing the Peltonen Passout expert trail and we are closing the Blueberry big down hill. until we get more snow. We will not be resetting tracks until we get more snow. Tracks could get slick w out resetting them.
I will report back about 10 AM after we return from grooming.
Wednesday 7:30 PM
4 groomers in early AM groomed 52 k of skate lanes and set another 15 km of classic tracks on combi trails .. Tracks reset on Pelty, Dog Trails, and Jacks Flats We are skiing are on 55 -65 km of trails . We still hope the Highlands this weekend and Puumala Trails to get all 94 km open.
I am just checking trail conditions in a few spots tonight …..The base held up well today even with temps above 32 F. Groomers are on call for Thursday AM, looks like a good forecast for the weekend.