trails groomed up well this morning, we groomed 25 km of skating and reset 10 km of new tracks. Groomers will be again in the morning.
Saturday 10 am
Friday 7 PM
We had a good turnout today for the early season snow. The groomers worked hard this morning to renovate about 20 km of skate lanes for the 9 AM skiers. Most skiers arrived as the classic tracks were softening about mid day. With temps getting up to 40 today and sunshine, skiers were happy to be out on real snow in the woods. Temps are down to 35 but the trails is frozen again and we will be back out with a full groom team in the early AM.
Looks like Saturday temps will be warm again so it is important to pick your time of day for skiing. I do not expect the base to go away, it is an honest 3-4 inches and solid with a few thin areas on the hill crests and under the conifers.
We are planning to groom daily.
Happy Thanksgiving
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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.
Wednesday 6 pm
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!
Tuesday 7 PM
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.