A HUGE THANK YOU to our groomer team who’ve spent hours out on the trails in the dark making your skiing possible. It’s difficult cold work and they give their all to make the trails as great as conditions allow.
Spring Conditions. Cold nights are helping keep the snow around but the very warm afternoons are taking their toll. Blue or purple wax until mid morning, then red and SPF 50+ later for skate and classic. We groomed a very light skate lane refresh on the 3km Community Loop, the 5km “Pond Loop” and Armstrong last night. Detours are in place in a few areas, ski with awareness and focus. Best skiing will be from 9 until about noon again today. Trail coverage remains good in most places. We have disappearing glazed classic track on more parts of the 3km and the 5km. Trail surfaces will be starting to transform and melt by noon. Ski before mid day if at all possible. Armstrong is packed and OPEN but thin and exposed in growing areas. Ski with caution in the corners, crossing cart paths and near the trees as the trails remain thin and the relentless heat is not helping. There are unmarked hazards and the afternoon heat will start to deteriorate exposed parts of the track further. The Farm and Dog Loop ski trails remain closed. We are OPEN 9-5 today offering lessons, rentals of skis and snowshoes. Come in to the shop, purchase your trail pass and ski the day! Snow dance rehearsals are nightly at sunset. It will be a lovely sunny day for skiing, bundle up early, peel off layers later and go play on the snow! Ski now, the next storm is likely a week away. Thank you for supporting long form prose trail reports. We’re keeping it real.
Thursday Haiku:
Locked in high pressure,
warm sun and thinning trails
dripping on the edge
