1.30.2025 Trails are staying in great condition!

It’s snowed a few times this week, maybe an additional 3-4 inches, so the groomers have been out several times this week. Conditions are excellent. We have more snow in the forecast this weekend, which is our typical winter pattern of snow every few days. Skiers are loving it.

If you recognize the location of the ski trail in the picture below from today’s grooming, go to our Facebook page and post your guess. Free cookie to the person who first guesses it correctly. Hint: this isn’t as easy as the last few. 😉

Mystery ski trail

Temperatures are all over the place for the next few days, but nothing too dramatically cold. Decent ski temps.

We do have some northern lights in the forecast for the next few days, which could add some excitement to your trip. Bring a headlamp and ski out on the lake to get the best wide aurora view. We almost always post on the Bearskin Facebook page as soon as we hear about any northern lights activity. For more info about how to see the lights when you’re at Bearskin, go to: https://bearskin.com/bearskin-lodge-photography-series-chasing-the-northern-lights-on-the-gunflint-trail/

We will have soup and chili in the lodge all weekend, as well as hot chocolate, cheesecake, cookies, wine and beer. See you on the trails!

1.10.2025. New snow, Pisten Bully is out grooming

It snowed a bit last night, with more in the forecast for the weekend. We have been so grateful to have good skiing here, but our snow was getting fairly compacted. It snowed just enough to freshen up the trails well.

We groomed the east side trails this morning with our Pisten Bully. We’ll do the west side — Bear Cub, Oxcart, and Poplar Creek — this afternoon. (EDIT: Quinn didn’t get to Bear Cub this afternoon.) The small amount of snow we received did wonders and everything groomed up great.

The northern trails, on the Golden Eagle side, had their skate decks refreshed with the Tidd-Tech this morning. Golden Eagle plans to go out with their Pisten Bully on their side of the trail system after the snow this weekend.

Weekend Planning:

We will have soup, chili, cheesecake, cookies, hot chocolate, caramel macchiato, wine, beer, pop, and snacks available in the Main Lodge for weekend skiers. Skiers are coming here to practice for races from all over the state right now, so the parking lot has been getting a bit full on the weekends. Remember, if our parking is nutty then you can drive a little farther up the Gunflint Trail to Golden Eagle and start on the north side of the same system. That lot is generally more available. If you get here fairly early, then parking is easy. Arrive in the morning and spend the day. By lunch time the lot may get fairly full— be smart about how you park.

We do have an opening in Lodge 4 for this weekend, as well a big new opening in Cabin 3 for dates during the coming week. (Cabin 3 rarely comes open in winter!) Check our Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BearskinLodge/ for more info.