Conditions: Upper Arb - Excellent for skating. No tracks in upper arb, but freshly groomed.
Upper arb was in great shape for a good skate today. Well done and many thanks groomers!

(John Daniels)

Conditions: Actually, amazingly good.
Freshly groomed skate trail on the upper arb. The crust broke up very well and and the trail was mostly packed snow, instead of ice. I'll go out on a limb and guess this trail could be the best natural snow trail in the current area.

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(Tom Bisel)

Conditions: Upper skate deck is soft, but firming up each day. Lower is in great condition.
Upper arb was groomed this morning. Still a little soft and airy, but is getting better as more skiers hit the trails. Needed to get all the walker prints out or the trail system. Lower arb was tracked Friday afternoon and all trails are open(15k).

(Tom Bisel)

Conditions: Lower Arb: Fresh snow-groomed this morning.
Great day out there. Lots of sunshine and the wind isn't bad at all. Canada Ave side of lower arb best....groomed - no classic tracks though. Lots of foot traffic already closer to the football field parking lot.

(Rhea Mehrkens)

The trails had been rolled earlier in the evening, but by the time I skied at around 9pm there was an additional ~3 inches on top. Should be fantastic conditions once it is all groomed and set up.

(Nate Porath)

Conditions: Deep snow over the top of a frozen, rutted base.
Last night the upper arb was refrozen, so I went to Hyland. Today several inches of white fluff made for fun conditions skating above the ice. Should groom up very well.

(Jeff Pesta)

Conditions: Groomers will be our in full force late this afternoon.
We plan to roll and pack as much of the Upper and lower Arb this afternoon and evening. We will again get out early morning and try and groom up the skate deck and set a track throughout the system. Looks like we are at 4-5" of new snow as of 2pm.

(Tom Bisel)

Conditions: Icy tracks, marginal conditions.
Talked with groomer Matt: The temperature fluctuations the past few days have caused the bottom of the classic tracks to melt and refreeze into ice. Matt reports this morning that the skating is still ok in the lower arb but the tracks are icy and there are some rocks showing through the bottom of the tracks so overall the conditions are marginal.

(Timothy Vick)

Conditions: Very good on the lower arb trails.
I skied the trail along the river again and it was great - a modest dusting of new snow that was freshly groomed and tracked this morning. Grab it while you can!

(Timothy Vick)

Conditions: Upper Arboretum freshly groomed this morning for skating. The Lower Arboretum had about 60% of the trails re-tracked and I opened up a couple of new trails.
The upper should skate pretty well. Fresh corduroy over hard packed base. We are planning on regrooming again this evening with the colder night ahead. We expect to also set a track tonight. The lower Arb has held up well and with the fresh coating of snow, we were able to get a full depth track. I would estimate about 10km of trails currently groomed with about 2 km left to be tracked.

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(Tom Bisel)