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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.

what a fun day for our opener. I spent the day with the grooming crew but saw many friends in the parking lot and out on the trails. The trails had to all get Re groomed because we received another 3 inches last night. We groomed up until 1 pm trying to pack and freeze new km after we had the 30+ km ready for skiing. Full groom crew in the am to regroom the new snow. The new Popple flats and white pine are getting high grades

what an exciting day of grooming! We spent most of the day grooming for our opener tommorow. I just came in with the Pisten Bully and the trails are looking good. They are freezing down well. We have a crew to finish the grooming in the early am hours. We plan to have River, Popple flats, Popple Climb, Memory, part of blueberry, meadow, cherry groomed for skating and classic tracks. We plan to have the hemlock, jack pine ,white pine, Deer trail and Jack’s flats tracked and the front part of tamarack….maybe more. That is about 30 km. There are a few slushy spots that should freeze tonight at 13 degrees, but the trail is well covered and I am expecting good early season conditions.

The official count is 27 inches of snowfall. The Pisten Bully was out grooming along with 3 snowmobiles. We are grooming 30 or so km to be open for skiing Saturday at 9 AM .