Amazing morning! Temp in the teens, grooming was good, fun was had. A few sticks and leaves -- all easy to avoid.

(Lee Penn)

Great snow this morning! Hard and fast, a tad slick. A few sticks and leaves on the trails but pretty easy to avoid.

(Ophelia Loree)

It was cold, and windy, and conditions were great. The ice situation on Twin Lake loop is much improved - there are a few spots, but they are visible (dark) and they are easy to move around. Thank you groomers! The snow making on the tubing hill is blowing over a bit onto Trail 18. That, combined with the machine tracks, made me a bit cautious going down the big hill behind the trailhead, but it wasn't too bad.

(Sam Knuth)

I figured it might be icy and rutted by the time I got to Wirth in the evening but I'm so glad I made the trip as the conditions were far better than I expected. There were no ruts to trip me up and the little bit of snow that fell provided enough control that it was quite surprisingly a great ski. I did not do the Twin Lakes loop due to darkness and based on the earlier reports but the rest of the trails were in good shape. The wind even helped push me up the hill on North Finger. The snow guns were blazing by the tubing hill and the snow that drifted over from that added plenty of control to the hill by the trailhead building.

(Peter Aggen)

The trail was in great shape early this morning considering the temps yesterday. There were several icy stretches, but much of it was quite nice. Twin lake/Green Meadow were the icy spots - ice throughout Twin Lake, but especially bad on the final descent coming out of the woods and back toward the lower stadium. The downhills throughout that stretch were very icy this morning and could pose a challenge. North finger and La Squadra on the other hand didn't have any noticeable ice.

(Sam Knuth)

We started a bit before 9 am, and it was great! By 10:15 ish, the climbs were getting slushy, and some sections were getting quite tacky. Conditions were quite a bit slower during the second half of our almost two hour ski but, we had a great time -- I have a lot of gratitude that I got to ski yesterday and today.

(Lee Penn)

Gorgeous morning at Wirth for a shakeout classic ski after the 50k Birkie yesterday. Tracks were icy but guru 39 hard with some red was kicking. That was the quietest I've seen it all year at 7am. Nice that parking is mostly opened by Trailhead and most the of ski trails were open. Thanks to the groomers and let's hope it can hold on a couple more weeks.

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(Kevin Ousdigian)

With an 11 a.m. and 36 F start, I hit the sweet spot--at least for my tastes in snow. Although there was minimal ice at the surface, it was hard to get a good pole plant due to a frozen underlayer, especially on north-facing uphills. But this problem lessened as the day progressed. There was a lot of work crew traffic with snowmobiles, ATVs and such, still putting stuff away after the big event last weekend. They've got to do what they've got to do, but it did create a few challenges, that likewise got better as the snow softened later in the day. Or maybe it was just that I got used to it. I suggest B skis because of dirty snow and some tree debris, but there were no bare spots so good skis might be okay. Overall, I was grateful for another day of skiing in this age of climate weirding.

(Lois Braun)

Main trails are open again and a track is set (albeit it is shallow and icy in a number of places). Need to park at Chalet and take La Squadra up. "Full loop" now includes Twin Lakes, Coaches corner climb, North Finger, La Squadra, Ridgeline/machine shed loop, then down big hill past Trailhead and over bridge back to the stadium. The normal Jim's Hill return from the upper to the lower stadium is closed and looks kaput given all of the dirty foot traffic during the WC. Overall loop is nice, not icy and well groomed.

(Jim Carlen)

Parking at the chalet is still closed, so you need to get on at the bottom of the La Squadra loop. The trail is closed at Coaches corner, but Ridgeline and the finger loop make up the trail. Tracks are shallow, but mostly ok. The two big downhills have big lumps of soft snow to navigate. Around noon, it was all pretty soft, except a few icy bits on shaded parts of the tracks.

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(Laurie Ford)