Conditions: Excellent for both stride and skate.
Skied the last three days on the Central Gunflint trails at Bearskin Lodge. About 2 ft. of snow on the ground, trails were all in excellent condition for both stride and skating. Hats off to Bob, Quinn and the entire Bearskin team for the great grooming and hospitality!

(John Traul)

Conditions: Excellent classic conditions!
Skied out of Bearskin Lodge over MLK weekend when the temps were below freezing the entire time. Perfect grooming combined with a few inches of light powder that fell just before our group arrived, made for delightful trail conditions. Skied Beaver Dam, Ox Cart, Bear Cub, and Poplar Creek trails. In addition to perfect skiing, the trees of the forest were so heavily laden with snow which made for incredibly beautiful scenery!

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(Colleen Corcoran)

Conditions: Excellent for classic.
About 95% of the trails are open. We skied Beaver Dam, Ridge Runner, Ox Cart, Old Logging Camp, Bear Cub World Cup (3rd loop not open yet), Moose Pasture. The air temp was -3F to -15F the whole time, so the snow was a bit slow even with Swix Polar White wax, but the scenery more than compensated! Trees were plastered with a thick layer of snow. Snow depth was probably 12-18".

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(Craig Wiklund)

Conditions: Excellent snow conditions and grooming. Flour Lake trail connects Bearskin and Golden Eagle systems.
Best conditions of the year so far. Abundant snow. Skied all trails except Bearcub, oxcart, lace lake.

(Tom McCann)

Conditions: Excellent 20" + base 1.5" new snow. Area looks like Winter Wonderland, due to recent heavy snows in area. Today skied classic. Trails groomed and tracked excellent!
Today classic skied, Logging Camp Trail, Moose Ridge, DeerMouse trails. Skiing was excellent on all trails skied!

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(Robert W Nicholson III)

Conditions: Great snow, some limited access.
Most of the trails are open and well covered with snow. A few weeds and shrubs stick out of the trail here and there, but most of the trails are clear. The lakes aren't groomed yet due to some late freezing and thin ice/slush, but a few people have been skiing across them anyways. A lot of fallen trees have blocked a couple of the outer loops as well. Still plenty to ski for hours without crossing over your earlier tracks!

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(Christian Gostout)

Conditions: Great conditions and lots of snow.
Skied the trails near Golden Eagle and Bearskin and found trails to be in great shape. Logging Camp Road, Deermouse, Red Pine, Summer Home and Beaver Dam are all in great shape. Lake ice is not safe.

(Jim Carlen)

Conditions: Excellent +18" base +2" new snow! Winter wonderland!
Skiing excellent. Most trails groomed and excellent. Because of soooo much new snow one trail we skied needs a second grooming. ( scheduled tomorrow). This was our 4th day of excellent skiing!

(Robert W Nicholson III)

Conditions: Very good conditions on all trails.
13 inches of base snow with 5 additional in last 24 hours. Grooming Is excellent. More trails to be opened daily but plenty to keep one busy this time of year. Good for beginners as well as experienced skiers.

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(Robin Nicholson)

The summer home road and campground loop are in great shape and the crew at Bearskin and Golden Eagle have been working around the clock to get new trails open after the heavy snow last week. Conditions for skiing are excellent. We've been particularly enjoying the lighted loop at Bearskin.

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(Mark Hennessy)