Conditions: Icy fast with good control and nice new tracks.
Groomed at dusk when temp went below 32F. Excellent skating very fast if a little icy on the summer stage hill. Tracks reset too so ranger report needs update. Bring your klister Friday to enjoy the best striding tracks in weeks.

(Mike Graham)

Man made snow is really fast and granular. Skied there Monday night and it was great. May not be for long. Get out and enjoy all the hard work the snow makers have done. And thank you to the groomers.

(Mary Lou Geralts)

Conditions: Manmade loop excellent, everything else fair at best.
I recommended B/rock skis for venturing out from the man made loops. Many thin areas with ice and dirt and yep, a few rocks. The manmade loops are in A+ condition and race skis can/should be used.

(Matt Stanke)

Conditions: Groomed after 14 degrees during night, the 1k manmade was very fast with enough loose snow for edging over a icy base. Did 20 enjoyable loops.
The manmade loop has a solid 1.5-2 ft base that should be good for quite a while with their daily grooming.

(Don Howell)

The entire trail system is in very good shape with good snow coverage and little debris. Yesterday's 3/4 in of snow made for nice control in the skating lane, although some of the flats and downhills on the lighted loop are hard pack. If they groom for tonight's races the conditions should be great. Pretty nice track on most of the trails.

(Paul Keber)

Conditions: Very good skate. 1 inch of Ungroomed fresh snow covered hard packed trails. Saw tracks of striders in upper area but they were "strider made" and in center of trail.
Skied 10 am to 1 pm. One inch of fresh snow and 32F = slow for "breaking trail" but got faster as sections were skied in. Noon freezing drizzle on third blue loop actually made trails just a bit faster. Used B skis since it is hard to see stones with fresh snow. Could have used A skis as it turned out. All in all great Birkie training! Upper area saw less skiers and more deer. Great Day.

(Theo Abrahamson)

Conditions: Good for skate, poor tracks for classic.
The man-made loop is almost complete with tail end and magic carpet being the only areas not groomed/covered. Coverage is still 100% on the lighted loop, except two-tier, where the erosion boards are quite visible. The classic tracks are in poor condition on the outer loops.

(Brad Baas)

Conditions: Fair to poor classic.
Skied the blue loop at Lapham this morning, classic. Very icy tracks, nonexistent in some places. Lots of debris once you are back in the woods. Depressing. An A for the groomers for trying, but an F for Mother Nature. This isn't worth skiing, IMO, until we get more snow. Felt like I was skiing in late Spring. Stay to man-made loop. Skate deck looked average, but lots of debris in places there as well.

(Dana Jones)

Conditions: Mostly very good!
Classic skiing was very good and skating looked like it was closer to excellent! Big slide was in good condition; fast, fun and controllable.

(Jim Bolton)

Conditions: Freshly groomed, snow falling as we skied. Excellent ski.
Skated Black loop Wednesday morning, groomed and full coverage. 2 degrees made for somewhat limited glide but overall very good conditions. No ice, everything was safe.

(Robert Garner)