Mid winter cold and powder have returned! After a three week stretch of moderate temps and precip, we are back in a cold and stormy winter pattern. 4-6" of new powder over the last two days with more coming almost everyday this week. Fresh cut track and cord on 40K last night. More snow in forecast! Today was 100 days of grooming with 50 more till we close! Come and enjoy one of the best Nordic venues in North America!

(Bill Pierce)

Mid winter cold and powder have returned! After a three week stretch of moderate temps and precip, we are back in a cold and stormy winter pattern. 4"-6" of new powder over the last two days with more coming almost everyday this week. Fresh cut track and cord on 40K last night. More coming tonight! Today was 100 days of grooming with 50 more till we close! Come and enjoy one of the best Nordic venues in North America!

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(Bill Pierce, Snow Mountain Ranch)

Conditions remain excellent and trail base keeps growing. 18"-48" base with 3" of fresh powder in the last 24 hours and 7" in the last 48 hours. Just hit 70 days of grooming. Tilled, combed, and track set Zone 1 this morning and working on refreshing skate lanes in upper Zone 2. Forecast is for snow to end by Thursday and sunny awesome weekend of excellent skiing.

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(Bill Pierce)

After almost 2 feet of snow in the Colorado high country, our groomer Shawn has turned Snow Mt. into Skier Nirvana. Most trails are groomed for classic and skate, and more should be ready for the Martin Luther King weekend. Come join us for skiing, snow shoeing and fat biking! Weather is supposed to be mild with little or no wind. More snow in the forecast.

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(Stephen Lee)

Conditions are excellent! We had 15-24" of fresh powder over the last 48 hours. The base now varies from 15-42" depending on elevation on the system. 60 K was rolled, tilled, combed, and track set in the last 12 hours. Fat bike trails are all sled packed. Conditions for the weekend classic races and dog sled races will be perfect. The low on the system this morning was -31F. It will be teens today and twenties over the weekend.... full on sun! Enjoy Winter!

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(Bill Pierce)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! The skiing is excellent on all trails! Around 75K tilled, combed, and track set over the last two days and around 30K set every day! 8-24" base with 4" fresh in the last 24 hours. Enjoy the holiday week!

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(Bill Pierce, Snow Mountain Ranch)

Great conditions for skate skiing today. Groomer caught up with the wind from yesterday and nearly every trail was packed and tracked. Would've been great for classic as well.

(Ted Lystig)

Great conditions for skate skiing today. Groomer caught up with the wind from yesterday and nearly every trail was packed and tracked. Would've been great for classic as well.

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(Ted Lystig)

Skied a 15 km sampling of the snow mountain trail system-sometimes ahead of the groomer, sometimes behind. Blowing snow wiped out tracks within a half hour. Still, setting your own tracks in 2 inches of newly fallen snow with snow covered trees all around is quite the Christmas treat. Settling winds should make for near perfect ski conditions tomorrow.

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(Sandy Schreyer)

The new snow over the last few days has made for some great mid-winter conditions for both skate and classic, plenty of fresh corduroy for your A skis, just a few moose tracks. Classic tracks are a little soft in some spots but overall excellent skiing.

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(Peter Coenen)