Conditions: Fast and well-groomed for skating. Classic tracks are mostly gone. Firm, no large ice chunks, a few icy areas that have a bit of ground up corn snow on top. Get out there early; it won't last long!
Phil was out grooming this morning - trails are really nice, as usual!

(Janet Smith)

Conditions: Good conditions for skating only. No classic track left.
All trails, green blue and black loops were groomed for skating Thursday morning. The coverage is pretty good with an ice base and an inch of crushed snow/ice on top. Classic track is almost all gone. Getting trails ready for ski backwards day on Saturday.

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(Scott Frazier)

Conditions: Top shelf, Iola survived warm temps and picked up about an inch yesterday.
Phil has groomed all trails and reports they are in great shape, he plans to touch them up Saturday morning. Saturday Greg Marr memorial ski social. Plan is to ski in the morning then pot luck lunch noonish. There will be a grill set up for use, otherwise bring a dish to pass. Phil is supplying the beer and is accepting donations for WINN program to help youth skiers with Korte entry fees. We will have Bon fire and music, weather looks perfect.

(Tracy Piontkowski)

Conditions: Great for skating. No new tracks set for striding.
Was out today in late afternoon while a gentle snow was flalling. The icy/crusty surface had been ground to produce about an inch of ground snow and ice that provided good purchase on push off and fast skating conditions. By the end of my ski enough fresh snow had fallen to slow things down quite a bit. At 4 PM the green and blue trails had been groomed and the pisten bully was out again when I left at 5 PM.

(Tim Corcoran)

Conditions: Very good to excellent skating. The tracks seemed great also.
A good crowd of pre-Birkie skiers today.

(Brian Ciske)

Conditions: Excellent great grooming as usual here.
Skied here Tuesday evening and was treated to some of best trail conditions ever. Great training spot a week before the main event!

(Charlie Ritter)

Conditions: Very good.
The 11 inch dump earlier this week combined with Phil J's magic touch produced wonderful conditions. It was a bit soft and slow today on the Black loop, but still fantastic. The northeastern extension of the black trail that I never got to ski last year is fantastic: great flow, banked turns, damn near a perfect ski trail. Classic tracks were deep and firm. Skate deck will be much faster tomorrow.

(Charlie Dee)

Conditions: Hard base with light dusting of new snow.
Conditions today were quite good. They got a light dusting of new snow over hard base. Phil was out grooming and it was nice conditions. I used my good skis and did most of the trail system.

(Diane Gustin)

Very good! Great skating under the lights tonight. No thin or icy spots. Tracks looked decent too.

(Wade Loberger)

Conditions: Surprising good for skate, tracks are a little washed out in spots.
Skied under the lights, understand there was a coordinated shoveling effort on Sunday. Trails are in fantastic shape not boiler plate. Green and blue are main focus. Black remains blocked in spots till we get more snow.

(Tracy Piontkowski)