Trails were regroomed on the 22nd. Skiers report “excellent” conditions nearly everywhere. Due to early season rolling and packing there is a good firm base on the trails. Classic tracks are hard and fast. New corduroy set up beautifully, but skating is slow due to cold temps. As of noon on 12/23 new snow was falling, so there’s probably an inch or two of light power on the trails.
Entire system is groomed and tracked. Quinn and Bob were out Monday with both groomers to regroom after the 4 inches we picked up Saturday night. Because of early rolling and packing and cold snow conditions, the skate lanes are very firm. Average of 15 inches of snow in the woods with depths up to 20 Consistent 6 inches of base throughout the system with considerably more in many places. The North South Link trail across Aspen Lake is closed at the moment due to extremely slushy conditions and a short section of Poplar Creek is less than perfect as it travels through a swamp with hummocks and frost heaves. Otherwise conditions are good to excellent.
Grooming with the Tidd Tech
Let the ski season begin! Sort of…
The beauty of Bearskin’s new Tidd Tech groomer is that this machine can start grooming far before our pisten bully can get out on the trails. We haven’t had a huge amount of snow yet, but as soon as we had a small layer of snow, Quinn went out and groomed the trails on the lake, the campground loop and Summer Home Road. He’s experimented with putting double track in already on those locations and figures that with just a little more snow (and it is coming down now) he should be able to lay some decent tracks.
Quinn, Andy, Bob and a few guests were out skiing over the last few days. Bob skated all the packed trails and found it to be surpisingly good. Quinn and Andy skiied down the lake and out into unpacked, ungroomed areas, breaking their own trails. Conditions are excellent for that type of skiing, also.
Summer Home Road
A gentle snow is falling today. It looks exactly like the animated snow you often see on websites this time of year (like this one right now!) — uniform, round flakes slowly and consistently falling straight downward. The accumulated snow should make this early season skiing even better.
Accumulating snow today
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