Conditions: Excellent ribbon of corduroy - as of 5am Boulder Ridge was open.
Great morning for a ski. Boulder Ridge was freshly opened, all the man made trails were in great shape. Lots of deer making tracks on the new snow.

(Scott Greymont)

Conditions: Manufactured snow trails: star loop, willow creek and frog town xc ski trails (3.2K) are packed, tracked and in good condition for both classic and skate. Natural snow trails: lake, hill, oak knob, north, and nature center trails are packed and in fair condition. The last 2 loops on the 5k manufactured trails: scenic foothills and boulder ridge will open Wednesday at 5 am. HS races scheduled at 3:30-5:30 Wednesday and Thursday. Frog town, scenic foothills and boulder will close at 5 pm on Sunday, Jan 10 And reopen Monday, jJan 11 At 2 pm to make more snow.
Visitor Center is open weekends 8:00 AM-9:00 PM and weekdays 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM. Park/Trails are open 5:00 AM-10:00 PM, Daily. Trail Lights on until 10:00 PM. Rentals are available.

(Sonja Bercich, Three Rivers Park District)

Conditions: Boulder Ridge not open this afternoon but looks like they are getting close to opening up more man made and an employee said maybe Wednesday.
Light traffic until some teams started showing up at 3:40. When I left at 5 it was quite busy with kids skiing/standing in groups. Still great however and such a great asset for the Nordic community.

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(Clayton Keim)

Conditions: Manufactured snow trails: star loop, willow creek and frog town xc ski trails (3.2K) are packed, tracked and in good condition for both classic and skate. Natural snow trails: lake, hill, oak knob, north, and nature center trails are packed and in fair condition.
Note: high school meets scheduled Wednesday, Jan. 6 and Thursday Jan. 7; 3:30 - 5:30 Pm. Frog town to boulder ridge trails will close Sunday, Jan. 10 at 5pm through Monday, Jan.11 at 2 pm to make more snow. Visitor center is open weekends 8:00 am-9:00 pm and weekdays 9:00 am - 9:00 pm. Park/trails are open 5:00 am-10:00 pm, daily. Trail lights on until 10:00 pm. Rentals are available. Thinksnow!!!

(Sonja Bercich, Three Rivers Park District)

Conditions: Trail is in great shape, a little soft on some of the uphills from the traffic all day, but in great shape! Beautiful day to be out skiing.
Had a few close calls of people walking out in the skate lane or stopping and not looking.

(Kevin Lyons)

Conditions: Good as predicted.
Hyland has done an excellent job on the man made loop.
Still no path out on boulder ridge - they had the poles up blocking the path and snow guns going as of 7am.

(Scott Greymont)

Conditions: Great skating on Hill Trail and manmade snow trail, fair on Lake Trail.
There were a lot of dirty spots and small sticks and leaves on the Lake Trail, but the South Hill Trail was pristine and well groomed for skating. Probably good for classic, too, but I wasn't paying much attention to that. Manmade snow trail closed/blocked before Scenic Hills loop.

(Craig Wiklund)

Conditions: Snow on the Lake Trail was adequate to good, especially for skating. The trails was not tracked for classic.
Beautiful sunny day - who can complain!

(Craig Freeman)

Conditions: Continued excellent conditions at Hyland on the man-made loop, for both classic and skate! I did not try the natural snow loops, but there looked to be a fair amount of folks enjoying those loops as well.
The man-made Scenic Foothills and Boulder Ridge loops are still not open yet, but lots of skiers were salivating at the prospect of skiing those funs loops in the near future...

(Bill Oyler)

Conditions: Great condition - no complaints - nice hard pack snow.
Skied the man made loop as well as Bur Oak loop. Man made loop: excellent condition - nice hard pack snow and just soft enough to get good push off. Burr Oak: the only sketchy area is the hill climb off the lake - otherwise it was a good couple of extra hills. Looks like they are just about ready to open Boulder Ridge. Some signs of grooming that section.

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(Scott Greymont)