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Skiing reports from today

“Never seen the first day so smooth”

“Can not believe there are full depth classic tracks”

“You are really renting equpment?”

“I did not hit or see any rocks bbut it is soft…how much snow did you get?”

“Where is everyone?”

Groomers are just coming in tonight . The trails did get use today and it helped ski in all the fresh snow. the groomers tonight leveled out the trails and they should freeze up well. It is snowing and we already have snow covering the cord so of course we will be back out in the early AM .

We are grooming 40 km of trails and we will be starting to pack in another 30 km of trails as of Sunday.

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Ready to go

The snowfall so far is 12 inches and it is snowing. What a long day…. and the last groomer is still out. The base is packing to about 3-4  inches with no significant bare spots as of tonight We have a few thin areas under Pines and on wind blown ridges but it is looking pretty good. We are grooming about 27 km for skating / classic on the wide combo trails and 13 km is being packed for the stride only trails. We have been focused on packing today (and not leveling or smoothing) to allow the base to freeze tonight. We will be out early in the AM to run the other groomers to level out and track set if possible. We always suggest rock skis for the first opening day, but we may have enough base in the AM for good skis on some of the trails. My guess is the trails will still be soft in the morning and a bit bumpy but pretty well covered. As of tonight there are no  tracks (grooves) for the classic skiers Trails open at 9 AM CST.
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12 inches of snow

22 degrees and it continues to snow. The groomers have been out all day and are still out. The trail is freezing down and packing down. We will open for skiing at 9 AM Saturday.