A full service ski touring center located on over 1100 scenic acres of varied terrain along the Montreal River in Ironwood Michigan.
We finally got caught up cutting the branches from the “Epic” Ice storm one week ago today.
All the trails have been brushed and branches picked and have been groomed. 95 km open and groomed after 2 more inches of fresh snow last night. Thank you to all those that helped after the ice storm.
We had a great morning of grooming! I was in ” Big Heart” the bigger Pisten Bully with the wide tracks and tiller and Crasher was in “Little Heart” Pisten Bully. We groomed up most of the combi trails and Tamarack. We groomed about 67 km today with the Bullies. We stopped grooming the end of the Highlands last week and the black diamonds end of Pelty. Rudy’s is also not groomed. Sunday we have 3 groomers scheduled to groom all the classics, and the same on the combis….2 inches of snow scheduled for midnight. Groomers arrive at 5-6 AM. 80 + km on the schedule for Sunday grooming
Season passes on sale and ski shop sale 20-30% off. Closing date is a week from Sunday…looks like we will make it with good snow. 115 days this season!
We woke up to a bit of a “snow squall” 1 inch of snow w wind. We had a crew of 7 today from 6-10 AM. 4 grooming and 3 cutting brush from the ice storm. We groomed 69 km today, We have 84 km open for skiing and we are heading out early with both Pisten Bullies to regroom combi trails and tamarack and Ridge Runner.
We had a good brush cutting crew today. 5 of us worked 4 hours clearing Deer Trail, Blue Berry Cold Feet, Meadow Ridge and back. Skiing was very good.
Friday, we are clearing the end of Blueberry, Bards, and Rascals on the combination trails. We have a 2 person crew grooming tracksetting and clearing Sunset, Wolf tracks, Puumala and Otter Slide. we are grooming all the skate lanes on the combi trails except dog trails and Pelty and the back/North end of Memory. Crews are working 6-8 AM and then 8:15 to 11 ish cutting brush from the ice storm.
Saturday we plan to take both Pisten Bullies out early AM and groom most of the combi trails. 80 k are looking good for the weekend.
What a great March of skiing. Ice storm brush and tree recovering is on going. Crews worked again today. We are presently skiing 48 km of trails brushed and groomed. Some skiers are skiing the un brushed and un groomed.
Today we had our staff out on ABR owned trails; the trails to the south and to the east were being brushed by the property owners, thank you.
I am working with a crew of season pass holders and trailside property owners Thursday 7AM -noon opening up Blueberry , Meadow, Bards, and Jacks Flats and Deer Trail.
48 km was groomed today and skiing very well. I am guessing we will be skiing on 75 km by the weekend.
Discount season passes are on sale until April 1. $100 Newbie, $125 Sr/Jr, $145 Adult. We are holding the April 1 date strict this year. We expect a significant rise in our season pass rate and daily rate for next year due to fuel prices and inflation.