We groomed up about 37 km late last night as the temps dropped after another 4 inches of snow fell during the day yesterday. We woke up to another inch or so on the trails and re-groomed again this time setting about 20 km of classic tracks. Skiers were out today and temps rose up in the hi 30’s softened the base and opening up some wet spots. We plan to re-groom in the early AM. I expect some of the k we groomed today to be deteriorated but am hoping most of the trails will re-groom after tonight’s refreeze.
Wednesday 5 PM
We had a good day of skiing today. the snow pretty much cam early this morning but it did not stop all day. We received 3-5 inches of dense snow. We groomed 38 km of trails this morning and had 33 k open for skiing. Picture is of “Honey Badger” grooming on the new Tamarack Two Track Trail with Pig Heart. At this time there is 2-3 inches of skied in snow and new snow on top of the grooming. We will be re-grooming tonight and in the early AM and we may even try to set tracks on some of the trails. The PB with low profile grousers was out tilling in the practice loop. We are open daily, including Holidays at 9 AM CST.
Wednesday 6 AM
We woke up to about an inch of heavy snow and it continues to snow. We will have the groomers out this morning grooming the new snow. We open at 9 aM and are skiing on and grooming 31 km of trails.
Tuesday night 10 PM
The trails are looking like they were at the end of Sunday, We have had some good cold temps but no new snow since last Saturday. Almost all of the wet spots are froze up in the lowlands and we have been working on about 30 km of trails 10 km is in nice early season condition the rest is hit and miss. We do plan on reopening again in the AM at 9 AM with early season conditions, If we get the snow forecast we will regroom and conditions will improve.
Monday 7:30 PM Update
We had a good day of trail maintenance today and regrooming. The trails looked to be in better than expected shape with the weekend traffic we had. The base is thin but the wet spots have frozen and the snow still seems to be cold dry powder. We repaired some of the problem areas and we will be back out in the early AM to work on the trails again. We plan to reopen for Wednesday…and if we get another inch or 2 of snow it will groom into the base and flatten things out nicely. We are closed for skiing and sales Tuesday, but plan to reopen Wednesday at 9 AM.