ABR Trails

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we our just coming in from checking the trails and they are freezing down well. The air temp is 28 and dropping. We have a groom crew ready for early morning grooming.

Pig Heart and Snowcross were out this early am doing touch up grooming and shoveling in on on some of the low spots that were icy. We put up a few signs, clipped some brush and had a great morning watching the sunrise on pit point.

The trails are holding up well and skiing great. The Pisten BULLY groomed combination trails are very level and flat and have rock solid classic tracks with good pole plants. The narrow, classic only have a few thin areas under the pines and pole plants are softer.

We are open with about 51 km of trails for the weekend.

Pig Heart and Wide Track are heading out Thanksgiving early morning. Full groom crew of 4 for Friday morning. Thanksgiving we are open at 9 as always but we do close the ski shop and chalet early at 3 and the trails an hour hour early at 4 so we can have Thanksgiving dinner with family. Please respect being off the trails at 4 so we can do that.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Just coming in from checking the trails. Looks we will be touch up grooming on the skate lanes early in the morning. The trails are holding up well and the cold night temps have been freezing down the base. A few days above freezing during the day may make it tricky for waxing the classics during the afternoon but it will not melt the snow on the trail. Skiing should remain very good for the next week.

What a fun day of packing and grooming more trails today. We hit the dog trails and then off to Woodward trails for the SISU. We did a bit of trail touch up and the trails are looking pretty good wet spots are frozen in the lowlands, and hills seem well covered. The 27 inches of snow helped smooth out the trail because we could run the PB for 2-3 groom cycles. I see warm temps forecast as high temps in the 30’s for Wed -Sat. With the firm base and nighttime temps freezing…I do not expect any issues with providing good quality ski conditions on 40-50 km of the trail system.

I cannot say how fun it was to see all our skier friends on the trail and in the ski cabin. I got an earlier start this morning with the larger Pisten Bully and groomed up a few k before 6 AM when the crew came in. The cold temps last night to the single digits froze up many of the wet spots. I was able to widen and blade in snow in the low areas. I groomed basically all of old ABR combo trails with the PB again today. The rest of the grooming crew focused on the classics and tracked most of them. after coffee break we went back out as a team of 4 and packed the Highlands which are closed.

Lots of great comments on the new White Pine Classic loop and the new Popple Flats mods and Popple Climb and the revised Peltonen Pass out to Peltonen Pass…much more friendly except the last head wall which can remind you of the old Peltonen Pass out.

Tomorow we are working on grooming the dog trails which are virgin 2 feet of snow.