Me and two other skiers tried to ski the Eloise butler trail but gave up and skied the manmade loop. Yesterday's skier tracks had iced up and the downhill past the pavilion had me on my butt, so I decided to say goodbye to south Wirth for the season. Manmade loop is holding up great and appears to have 1 or 2 feet of base.

(Mark Bushinski)

Skated Butler and Bog. They rolled the skate deck last night and it's starting to firm up. The deck is soft and uneven in spots but it's nice to ski on real snow. The snow is deep enough that I wasn't bottoming out anywhere.

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(Andrew Brown)

Bog and Butler are really nicely groomed, soft snow skiing. Coverage is really good with the usual caveat for the 'first for snow of the year.' No classic track set, but I classic skied out of the tracks and it was fun. Skating would be good too, but soft. Get it before it softens up!

(Ryan Atwell)

Skied all the natural snow north of Glenwood Ave and it was pretty good for skating. The base is very firm and slow due to the cold snow, but still fun to get out under the sun on the natural snow. Wirth Lake had a really cool smooth looking ice skating loop exposed - bring your ice skates while you are at it!

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(Bill Oyler)

Pretty hard to beat skiing in the Bog and Eloise Butler Garden on a bluebird Sunday! I earned a bunch of new dings (and extra deep new tracking groove on one ski) but had a blast doing it on my "forest skis." The Bog trail and 394 trail is in a bit better shape than Eloise Butler, and fun to do a bunch of loops over there to minimize the road crossings. The yellow curb at the bottom of the downhill at Eloise Butler is easy to safely "launch" over with enough speed. One manhole cover to watch out for in the Bog and a handful of frozen branches and rock faces, most of which are visible. Downhills are all in pretty good condition - skiing to the left or right of the trail is usually the best snow coverage. The best part about these trails is you are not exposed to any wind so it's nice and warm, compared to the open trails like Wirth Lake, which was quite windy. Bonus is the easy parking at the Wirth Beach House parking lot.

(Bill Oyler)

Bog and Buttler were both rolled tonight to a smooth even surface. B skis or rock skis would be appropriate.

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(Zachary Handler)

The entire trail system has been rolled. Snow has been shoveled under the highway 55 bridge and the brownie lake tunnel, and the 394 overpass is also skiable with clean snow. I would call this B ski conditions. I hit some sticks but no rocks in 20km of skiing. The new snow is soft and fast.

(Zachary Handler)

100% of the natural snow trails have been groomed! Super Fun skating from the Trailhead to Lake of the Isles and back (30k total). Great to be back on Wirth Lake, Jar Hill, Eloise Butler, and the Bog. Plenty of snow under the 55 bridge and on the 394 bridge and down to Brownie. Rock skis are recommended due to a handful of rocks, forest debris, and a bit of asphalt if you have a strong push off here and there. But way better than I expected. Thanks groomers!

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(Bill Oyler)

Perfect conditions for classic skiing - great grooming, not many skiers on the classic trails. Many skiers on the skate deck but still in great shape. Get out and enjoy!

(Linda Wick)

Wirth's full natural snow trail system has been groomed (no classic tracks), from Judy Loop down to Brownie Lake. Conditions are thin, sometimes bumpy, and sometimes with some debris poking through, but the packed layer from last snow fall should help keep skis from contacting the ground too frequently. We also filled in under the highway 55 bridge, so skis can be left on there.

(Robert Ibler)