Great snow! Great grooming! Fast skiing. Temps mid 20's wonderful skiing, plenty of snow everywhere. If you are tired of no snow - Central Gunflint trail is your answer! We still have winters. We skied all in the afternoon. It was terrific! Should be great snow for while.

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(Robert W Nicholson III)

It was a warm week but plenty of snow yet remains. Trail base is still averaging between 7 and 10 inches in most areas. Expect fast conditions, abrasive snow, and a hard base. All surface snow is tilled. All 70 kilometers of trails are open.

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(Zach Baumann, Golden Eagle Lodge)

Lovely sunny day at Bearskin/Golden Eagle trail system. Wish I would have gone in the morning before the sun was up so high and the temps too. The sun did cause a variation of slow/fast sections, as I was classic skiing. It got to 45 degrees while I was there, but I was amazed at how most trails were holding up. I did some depth checking with my ski pole, seems about 20 inches average snow depth to the side of the set tracks. I used my old waxless skis, after trying two attempts at skis I had waxed. It was delightful to ski out on the lake a bit on the set tracks at Bearskin.

(Kim Carlsted-Gillis)

We always have a good time skiing Golden Eagle and Bearskin. The trails were well groomed, but we had a ton of wind and warmer temps. So, the classic tracks had debris and glazing with icy spots off and on. We had to use all of our downhill skills to make it through some of the icy downhills. We still had fun and enjoyed the great Boundary Waters type scenery!

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(Bill Lundberg)

Skated trails around golden eagle lodge today. Lots of snow, freshly groomed. Excellent except for the very few soft spots on downhills. Tracks looked great too.

(Tony Pellegrini)

Skied the perfectly groomed trails of Beaver Dam and across the lake to Bear Cub World Cup. Smooth conditions after several 1/2 to 2" snowfalls prior to Saturday afternoon. Startled three huge moose on Bear Cub, halfway through loop. Easy decision to let the lingering bull moose win the stare-down contest, since he started it! Hills there were fast, with great attention paid by groomers to classic tracks on curves and corners for steady skiing.

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(Colleen Hollinger)

Excellent all trails! 12" New Snow this week on top of perfect base, 18-24" of snow on the ground. Skied Bearskin first, Summer Home, Ridge Run, and Beaver Dam. Then went to Golden Eagle skied Old Logging Trail, Moose Ridge, Deer Mouse Trail, and Red Pine. All were Excellent! Special bonus, many great Uphill climbs. If you love to ski, come on up, lots of snow - fantastic trails and grooming! It doesn't get any better! Bring your sunglasses.

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(Robert W Nicholson III)

It's been a snowy week, 11.25 inches in the last seven days! The trail base is averaging between 11 and 13 inches. Trails are beautiful right now and are in excellent shape! It's tempting to say this is the best skiing we've had all year, but we've had some awesome skiing already; conditions right now, though, are quite close to the top!

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(Zach Baumann, Golden Eagle Lodge)

It appeared to be about 6 inches of new snow. Trails were well groomed near both Golden Eagle Lodge and Bearskin Lodge. I skied on both. It was 12 - 14 degrees and sunny.

(Kim Carlsted-Gillis)

Sunny cold day (12 degrees when we began). My ski buddy and I headed out from the Bearskin Lodge to the Poplar Creek circle trail about noon today. Amazingly well set deep tracks. This is a beautiful loop with a variety of trees, and plenty of gradual ups and downs. And yes indeed there is one big hill to climb to get there (we harringboned up), and on the way back we side stepped down that big hill. We are so blessed to have good snow up here.

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(Kim Carlsted-Gillis)