We had a great day of skiing today. The base is holding up fine. We groomed about 60 km of skate lanes this morning, and we skied on 30 km of skate trails and had 47 km of classic tracks set. With the snow forecast for Sunday I hope we can open all 94 km for skiing next week. Groomers are coming in at 6 AM and we will continue grooming until noon.

(Eric Anderson, ABR Trails)

Conditions were great for the amount of snow in the area. Lots of variety in terrain and more than 45 km open to ski. All natural snow. Few thin spots here and there, but trails I skied were good for early conditions. Skied 29 km classic, with set tracks on all the trails that I skied. Definitely coming back. Thank you to the awesome grooming team!

(Kevin Grand)

Good News: The warm temps did not melt the base! The main trails were very skiable today. It is 30 degrees and the base is freezing. We have a three person groomer team lined up for early morning grooming. Flat trails with limited hills are listed in order: Deer Trail, Jacks Flats, Cherry, Blueberry 2 way, Warm up Loop. River Trail w bypass, PitPoint with bypass, Memory Lane, Jack Pine. That is about 45 km.
Bad news: I do not see us opening the Highlands for the weekend. We are closing the Peltonen Passout expert trail and we are closing the Blueberry big downhill until we get more snow. We will not be resetting tracks until we get more snow. Tracks could get slick without resetting them. I will report back about 10 AM after we return from grooming.

(Eric Anderson, ABR Trails)

Four groomers in early morning groomed 52 k of skate lanes and set another 15 km of classic tracks on combi trails. Tracks reset on Pelty, Dog Trails, and Jacks Flats. We are skiing are on 55 -65 km of trails. We still hope to groom the Highlands this weekend and Puumala Trails to get all 94 km open.
I am just checking trail conditions in a few spots tonight. The base held up well today even with temps above 32 F. Groomers are on call for Thursday morning, looks like a good forecast for the weekend.

(Eric Anderson, ABR Trails)

40-plus fantastic K: good ski skating on manicured corduroy; very nice and deep tracks - would recommend B- skis, but 99% of the time you’ll wish you had your A-skis.

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(Will Andresen)

What a great day of snowfall today. The snow started at 8 AM and is still snowing! We picked up about 4-6 inches and the groomers were out until noon. No new tracks set today but we will regroom in the early morning and reset classic tracks. The skiing has been really improving on a daily basis. Full groom crew out in the morning.

(Eric Anderson, ABR Trails)

ABR provided some fantastic November skiing today, pretty good coverage for both classic and skate. It was nice to have classic tracks that were generally pretty decent. Don’t use good skis quite yet, as there are still quite a few areas of dirt/rock exposed.

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(Levi Smith)

Well worth the drive. Skied 2 hours without skiing any trails twice. A little lumpy as early season skiing usually is, but no bare spots and the scenery beautiful as always. Some trails had tracks set, which I would rate as good.

(Tom Detzner)

We regroomed about 35 km of trails this morning after an inch of snow fell last night. The inch of new snow regroomed over the base made a huge difference in skiing from yesterday to today. It snowed another inch during the day. 47 km open for skiing this weekend. It is snowing now and four groomers are scheduled for 6 AM. If we get more than another inch we will retrack as well. We will continue to be open until the last week of March, weather permitting. Sunday we are starting to prep the Highlands, Windy Ridge and Puumala Trails to open the entire 95 km of ski trails by next weekend hopefully. Sunday is the last day of the 20% off in the ski shop.

(Eric Anderson, ABR Trails)

Fantastic early season skiing! B-skis pretty much throughout. Could find several K of good ski skiing if you don’t want to wait any longer.

(Will Andresen)