Trails too icy to ski so we hiked and cleared deadfalls on Prelude, Lake Loop to H and back down Bakers Road. We should have brought sleds to slide down the hills!

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(Catherine McLynn)

A couple of inches of fresh powder made it possible to enjoy even the big hills for this novice skier (i.e. snowplowing down them). We used the classic tracks under the new snow, and they held up well. What a glorious bluebird day of skiing. Beautiful trail system! Lit a fire in the warming house. Skied most of the trails. Came back for lunch in the warmed cabin, and went back out to do the entire system. Thank you Northern Lights Nordic Ski Club for maintaining these trails!

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(Debra Gagner)

Groomed all skating lanes. Classic tracks were in good shape so I left them as they are. I did ski through Red Pine and then the Tower Loop. Nice base and beautiful scenery.

(Tony Neururer)

Groomed yesterday. All trails groomed both skate and classic. Skied both prelude and lake loop. Beautiful conditions and scenery.

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(David Parrish)

Three inches of new snow. Dave and Tony groomed and tracked all trails this afternoon. Things look good.

(Tony Neururer)

Fresh five inches of snow. Groomed all of Prelude, up to Red Pine, and all of Tower. Lake loop grooming is planned for tomorrow.

(Tony Neururer)

Skate lane groomed and solid track set throughout Prelude, Lake Loop up to Red Pine Junction and back. Some debris turned up from thin base. Beautiful day with sun shining, calm, 25 degrees. Still good skiing beyond RPJ though not recently groomed.

(Catherine McLynn)

Fresh snow 2 inches on top of packed and tracked trails. Youth skiers had great fun skiing in the classic tracks with lots of good snowplowing snow to manage the steeper downhills. Skate skiers had to work a little harder on the uphills. Temps mild, perfect day out after long cold spell. Groomers have enough snow now!

(Catherine McLynn)

All trails groomed. They are in good shape. Tracks set on almost all trails. Still some areas too thin to set tracks. But skate lanes are nice.

(David Parrish)

An inch of snow over ice made for nice skiing in the hard set track except for the downhills with curves where the track was damaged during soft conditions. Skate deck had been roughed up by groomer a few days ago and was really rough with chunks of ice balls! Extra blue wax worked fine in the new snow. Regardless of challenges, we happily did ski up Baker's Road to Red Pine Junction and back down safely. We did not do Lake Loop.

(Catherine McLynn)