Conditions: Excellent for skating and classic on Thursday.
Skied in afternoon on Thursday - headed out from Bearskin Lodge. Yes, cold at 12 above but the sun made the trails gorgeous. Not much sun up this way lately...but the snow is consistently easy to wax for as a result. Another white batch dropped a few days ago.

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(Burt Carlsted-Gillis)

Conditions: Excellent. Trails had been groomed again after the wind stopped and skiing was as good as it gets for both classic and skate skiing.
We skied the Summer Home Road, Beaver Dam, and Campground Trails. All had just been groomed and except for the moose track on part of it, they were perfect. Per the lodge, all the trails had been groomed this morning except for the Poplar Creek Trail which was scheduled to be done in the afternoon.

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(Ari Fuad)

Conditions: Very good to excellent. The only issue was snow blowing into the tracks. As long as you were't the leader doing mild trail breaking, conditions were excellent.
Grooming was impeccable and recent, but glide wasn't very good due to the cold snow. The woods are still beautiful with snow hanging on the conifers.

(David Henning)

Conditions: Excellent for classic and skate - some new snow.
Skied again today....Bearskin/Golden Eagle trails. Temp at noon was 19 degrees. Seems the most popular trails were re-groomed today. Again the sun wasn't out for much of my afternoon ski. OK with me, it can't glaze the tracks. Nice to see fellow ski-nuts on the trails.

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(Burt Carlsted-Gillis)

Conditions: Excellent newly set trails at Bearskin/Golden Eagle - the snow temp didn't near the air temp of 34 in afternoon. There was minimal/rare icing in classic tracks. Skate tracks awesome!
Not sure where all the skiers were - yet the Bearskin/Golden trails are many, and it was a Sunday. Met some women from the Cities, also finding classic skiing good. Hint: I did have a Start wax with a 27-36 degree range. The Central Gunflint has great depth so can handle some warm-ups.

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(Burt Carlsted-Gillis)

Conditions: Excellent skiing for the 6th week! Deep snow everywhere! Grooming was terrific! Lots of snow!
We skied everything on the north side today. It is the 6th week of fantastic skiing! It does not get any better! Get in the car and come on up! Terrific trails, snow, scenery, and grooming! Put away your rock skis and enjoy!

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(Robert W Nicholson III)

Conditions: Excellent- as good as it gets! All trails has 2 foot + base and 3" of new perfect snow, groomed to perfection.
Winter Wonder Land - Great snow, Excellent grooming, beautiful scenery at every turn. We skied two days so far this week of the 70+ K they have of beautifully groomed trails, can't wait to get back for more. Excellent skiing for expert, intermediate and novice. The people and hospitality, Great!

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(Robert W Nicholson III)

Conditions: Skied Old Logging Camp Road all the way around Flour Lake including Ridge Run. The snow was fresh and few tracks so easy gliding for skaters.
Everything is open and beautifully groomed! Perfect skiing with gorgeous views!

(Robin Nicholson)

Conditions: Excellent classic and skate tracks!
The track setting quality is just amazing this year at the resorts. The snow conditions have been amazing, not to mention the beauty of big pines covered with snow. The short section through the BWCA is a wonderland of snow too. I had a good 20K ski today with my friend Raia. We've been skiing there every other day this week.

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(Kim Carlsted-Gillis)

Conditions: Freshly Groomed.
We skied the poplar creek and lace lake loops along with part of the banadad.

(Tom McCann)