Firm and fast skating on manmade, Piston Bully groomed snow. 1-1.5 k skiable with more coming soon. We used rock skis but suitable for good skis, only a couple small dirty patches that are easily avoided. No classic track yet. Very fun!

(Craig Stertz)

We have a nice loop groomed on machine-made snow. We continue to make snow. Nice skating. No tracks set yet as we still have yet to receive the track setters for our new Pistenbully.

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(Bob Conzemius)

While we are making snow at Mt. Itasca, the remaining trails are open and skiable ( rock skis). The man-made snow loop is approx. 1.5 k and will be pushed and groomed before this weekend.

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(Vladimir Cervenka)

We're more than 50% done with snowmaking -- perhaps the earliest we've gotten this far. We've even been skiing on the natural snow. We will push out our piles of machine-made snow when it looks like we're safe enough from any big warm spells -- doesn't look like there will be too much of a threat of that.

(Bob Conzemius)

The snowmaking started last night. Besides that 5 k loop was groomed and leveled with a tidd tech. Some dirt and grass on the trail, but skiing was really nice.

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(Vlad Cervenka)