Good snow coverage at Itasca Park which is just to the east of Maplelag. Groomer had rolled the trails Ozawindib, Eagle Scout, Nicollet, Wilderness Dr, DeSoto and Deer Park which I skied in that order. Also based on my observation, I think it was groomed it with tid tech but not a good job (did it under warm, moist conditions) and no classic track as of that day. Nonetheless having a firm base to push off from made the classic skiing enjoyable with Swix 65 and especially when I had the whole park to myself and it's semi-wilderness character with wolf pack and all. It was blowing all day with the ice pellets and snow coming down hard just as I got to the car at dusk. Received a couple inches of snow after that overnight into Monday, and when it cools off and dries out should be good for some more xc skiing.

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(Greg Klave)