We have lots of snow left and the trails Roy groomed Wednesday night are still in reasonable shape. The snow for skating will be best early morning before the temperature rises. Yesterday morning the trails were rocket fast at 9 am but by 10:15 the freshly fallen snow had slowed everything down. The new snow [...]

We had good skiing yesterday morning after Roy’s work with the Pisten Bully and there were a lot of skiers taking advantage of the beautiful day. The sunshine wasn’t good for the trails, however, and the skiers left lots of ruts in the soft snow. Because of the poor forecast, we didn’t groom for today [...]

Conditions should be excellent this morning. We thought the Pisten Bully had been put away till next season but with the Bearcat needing to be serviced the big machine is back at work. Roy was on the trails early this morning and groomed the Red, Black, lower Blue, Purple, and the short section of the [...]

Jim just phoned from the trails where he’s been attempting to groom. He was able to groom one pass through the stadium and the Purple but he had to stop grooming because the Bearcat was overheating trying to deal with the ice and traction was difficult. He may attempt to groom later. Jim said that [...]

The hut is closed today and the lights will be off tonight

Around 7 am Jim began raking the trails. Conditions for skating should be perfect early today and the skating surface will be good for classic if the diagonal track is hard early in the morning. Ski today and tomorrow since the forecast for Saturday isn’t too promising. We should, however, be able to survive Saturday’s [...]

The trails were in good shape through Wednesday and ski conditions were still good last night so we gave Jim a break from the grooming for today. The fresh diagonal track was excellent yesterday and should not have deteriorated at all. With the temperature well below zero for a long time last night the trails [...]

Wednesday should be great skiing. Tonight Jim groomed the Black, Red, Blue, Purple and Green and set a fresh track. Early tomorrow morning he’ll do the Gold, Pink and Brown. With the overnight cold the trails should set up well and we’ll have prime skiing for the next few days. The sub zero temperatures each [...]