Skied early today. It froze overnight so was very fast and icy at 8:00 am. By 10:00 with the sun shining, the trail was starting to soften up. There were a few open areas, but overall, the trail was in very good condition.

(Barb Krzak)

The Birkie trail is still skiable; icy and rough in the morning when it's cold, soft and slow when it's warm. But you can ski if you want to.

(Tom Detzner)

Conditions: South of OO soft deck, slushy and bare in spots, debris in spots. South OO/warming hut well covered some debris few bare spots. By mid afternoon deck got soft and every plant sunk in a couple of inches. Trails North of OO were much softer, less base, and more bare spots especially on any hill facing South.
Slow going but still enjoyable blue sky day up North.

(John Halley-Stillwater MN)

Conditions: Good. I used my rock skis, but friend used her good skis. Somewhat soft, but lots of snow. Fairly fast because of the ice crystals.
I skied from 00 South on Wednesday. The snow cover wax excellent for the first 4 k then got icier and thinner, but only saw a few bare spots. Did not ski north of 00 yesterday. Did see the Piston Bully go north although the Birkie site says they aren't grooming unless it gets colder.

(Barb Krzak)

Conditions: Spring conditions.
Skated south and north from Mosquito Brook Trailhead. Thin but still skiable south! My skis were not scratched and I was able to ski to within 200 ft of Lake Hayward shore! Diehard because I've come a long way to be here and I was determined to see and ski the course not in race mode. North to OO was thicker in general of course, again fine for skating, decent glide despite the very warm temps yesterday. Only a few spots to be careful getting through. Glad to have seen and familiarized better with race course, looking forward to first skate Birkie in 23 years next season.

(Scott Waichler)

Conditions: Icy, tracks are melting out. Good Skate, Warm but very solid base underneath so the skis did not sink in too much. Pisten Bully roughed it up going north on Monday morning.
Skied out of Double OO this weekend--It was quite good. It did not freeze last night. I went back to OO to see if it had corned up at all but there was a little rain and it had a soft glaze. Felt a little too epic so I did not ski-- but there is a huge base on the trail and it should be skiable for quite a while.

(Dan Murphy)

Conditions: Freshly groomed corduroy for skate, glazed classic.
Skied at OO late morning. I classiced, my husband skated. North of OO was pristine, saw only one set of tracks on the skate side. Sadly, I was disappointed there were no classic tracks set on either the skate or classic trails and the old tracks were groomed over. Went to the south side of OO and they had reset track on the east side of the trail. Someone had skied in the old track on the west side for about 3K, I got much better kick on that. Nice day to be out in the north woods - enjoy before its gone!

(Kathleen Miller)

Conditions: Very good - loose new snow on the trail between Mosquito Brook and the gravel pt road - nicely groomed north on the gravel pit road.
Skied from Mosquito Brook to the gravel pit and back late this afternoon. The trail south of the gravel pit is not groomed, north to OO is. It was fine for skating or classic but a bit slow with dry loose snow on top. South of Mosquito Brook, it is not groomed and has not been skied. North, it hand been skied and was fine. North of the gravel pit, the groomed trail was much faster.

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(John Breitinger)

Conditions: Very good - groomed since 2-3 inches of new snow yesterday.
No report from the groomers, but happily we found that, in addition to grooming for the Fat Bike Birkie, they didn't neglect the skiers! Birkie trail south and OO loops are groomed for skating and one track set. Track is firm, somewhat glazed and very fast! Not sure how far south they groomed. Birkie and Classic trails north of OO are groomed for skating (no track that we could see) and probably go as far as the FBB turnaround, about 2/3 of the way to Boedecker.

(Carolyn Senty)

Conditions: Very good but changing.
I skied from 1 to 3pm from double O south. Trail was a bit icy in places and a bit dirty but fast. However around 2 pm the snow started coming down heavily and by 3 pm the corduroy was covered and slower. They are predicting more snow by tomorrow so the conditions are changing but worth the ride.

(Randy Ruege)