Conditions: Perfect on Valley, getting better on Northern Lights.
The groomer was making loops on the Northern Lights trail around noon, making good progress on turning it back into snow.

(Adam Himes)

Conditions: Valley trail is excellent for skate, good for classic. Northern Lights is fair. Manmade trail freshly groomed with corduroy throughout. Tracks on manmade loop are filling with blown snow. Northern lights has 1/2 inch snow on top of ice, but still skiable. Connector between Valley and Northern lights is quite icy.
Not crowded at noon with subzero wind chills. Northern lights was more pleasant even with uneven surface, as you can get out of the wind.

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(Mark Oswood)

Conditions: Valley is perfect, Lake, Creek and NL are very good for skating.
Some debris and a few leaves on the deck on Lake and Creek with a few thin spots but easily avoidable. However with the warmer temps and sunshine peaking through today and possibly tomorrow, the thin spots could get bigger. The classic track I saw on Lake and Creek were mixed, with some sections which looked pretty good, some dirt and even some gone completely (grass).

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(Brad Johnson)

Conditions: Classic tracks perfect on man made loop, thin, washed out, or non-existent elsewhere.
I skied classic mid-morning. The classic tracks on the man made loop were as perfect as they could be, firm and fast with good kick (using my skintec classic skis - no time to fool with wax today). I took a few strides on the skate deck and found it to also be basically perfect. I took one lap around the Northern Lights loop and found it to be pretty sketchy for classic. The tracks were very thin and washed out in several places; I came out of them several times. The skate deck looked OK around Northern Lights but there were some thin spots and one big patch of exposed ground off to the right near the big uphill/downhill. I didn't go out across the board walk but I could not see classic tracks on that section from any vantage point on the man made loop.

(Leif Irgens)

Conditions: Skate deck is excellent.
I did not ski any of the classic tracks. I only skated this morning. However, the conditions on the skate deck were perfect. Well done grooming crew. I was the only one out here at 6:30. What an amazing ski.

(Paul Pasko)

Conditions: Pretty good conditions on the outer loops.
Skied the outer loops today, conditions for skate were pretty good. You could tell on the blacktop sections there was only a couple inches of base. Hills were holding snow well. Would not recommend striding the outer loops till more snow comes - lots of grass showing in the tracks.

(Scott Greymont)

Conditions: Freshly groomed skate lane and classic tracks on outer loop. Firm skate deck and very good conditions throughout. Classic tracks shallow and intermittently good to poor. Northern lights and Thicket very good skate and classic. Man made excellent skate and classic.
Skated outer loop today and very pleased with conditions. Total coverage with loosely groomed snow making it easy to get an edge. Classic tracks very shallow on outer loop, but great elsewhere. Very fun ski. Thanks groomers!

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(Doug Schumacher)

Conditions: Very good for classic and skate.
I know...with the Lucky Loppet, no Wirth Loop-de-Loop, Snow Gods Smilin' snowfall nobody needs Elm Creek any more. Classic skied. The manmade was excellent. Northern Lights/Thicket had a somewhat shallower and a little more uneven track but it was very good. Skating looked good too. I had bomber kick and probably didn't need the Start Oslo under some hard wax but I just bought it and had to try it. The little bit of klister in the Oslo picked up some snow when I stopped. Didn't have time to ski the Dark Side (non-lighted).

(Mark Lahtinen)

Conditions: Classic - fair to good.
There was a "soft track" set on the Lake Trail and the Northern Lights Loop. Grass showing through the track in a few places in spite of the new snow.

(Mark Skinner)

Conditions: Not groomed, but fantastic for classic.
Nothing better than skiing with wood skis on fresh powder through the woods in a snowstorm! The lights are turned off on most of the Northern Lights trail, but there was plenty of ambient light with all the fresh snow. Only saw three other skiers. Valley trail is ungroomed but lit.

(Craig Wiklund)