Still a lot of snow. They are grooming Bronze, Cedar, Summit and most of gold. I would have selected good skis but for a couple spots with ice from last weeks thaw. Temps are predicted to stay cold so there's still a lot of great skiing to be had. Feels like winter up here.

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(Cheryl DuBois)

Skied Summit, Gold, Cedar and Bronze. Excellent spring skiing! Skied Oslo and Biwabik Spur not groomed but excellent coverage with 2-3 inches loose snow.

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(Gary Anderson)

Giants Ridge is in mid-February-like conditions with snow and grooming from piston bully perfection! It is awesome up here-albeit a bit breezy! The trail access beyond the lodge (NW of lodge ) is not groomed as advertised. I skied up the Bronze through part of the Gold and back down the Summit. I then started back up Gold (at the golf course). The lower portion of Gold (approach to and into the woods) was not (yet?) groomed so I cut off at Cedar, which was groomed. In short, it appears most is groomed in the woods, once you get there. Stopped by the chalet to compliment and inquired if grooming would continue next weekend. Response was "We will groom as long as we can." I'll be back! Too cold to bike?!

(John Witzmann)

I skied the Summit and Bronze trails, in that order (counterclockwise). On most segments, I was on pristine corduroy, with only one set of tracks ahead of me for a short distance after being passed by a faster skier. The coverage is excellent, packed and tracked edge to edge. The skate deck is solid, with enough texture to get a good edge for the push, but the top is soft and wet enough to reduce the length of glide. I passed a depression off the side of the trail that was filling with snow melt, to the extent that it had soaked the trail snow about half-width. The overcast today helped slow the melting. Small amounts of detritus beginning to show through, but not enough to worry about, so far. All in all, a very nice spring ski on wonderfully maintained Giants Ridge trails.

(David Sonnenberg)

Warm temperatures and rainfall have caused us to loose some snow depth in sunnier areas and hilltops, but overall the trail system remains in good shape. The Northern Lights and Silver trails have been most impacted and have as little as 2 inches of snow in some areas. These trails will be the first to close and may have enough melt out over the weekend to warrant their closure. Trails including Bronze, Summit, Biwabik Spur, Gold and Cedar are in great shape with 8+ inches of base in most places. Grooming will continue periodically as base depths and weather conditions permit. Come on out to enjoy what could be the final weekend of our full trail system.

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(Benjamin Bartz)

Skied summit and silver. Summit was freshly groomed with a nice corduroy deck and deep solid classic tracks. Silver had an inch or less of powder over a corduroy deck. Silver is one of my new favorite trails lots of rolling hills with good flow.

(Mark Bushinski)

The conditions at the ridge are just great right now. Tracks are deep and fresh. Deck is hard and fast. Come get your "spring" k's!

(Tony Norland)

Skate skied parts of Silver, Northern Lights, Summit and Bronze. Conditions literally do no get any better than this. Corduroy deck perfect, firm, snow was cold and fresh. Thanks to the amazing groomers. Classic tracks were also perfect-looking.

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(Mary Shedd, Howard Wagoner Trails Club)

Best skiing of the year right now. Trails are in immaculate condition, perfect corduroy on the skate deck and full depth classic tracks.

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(Nikki Norland)

Came north to find more snow, and it's at Giants Ridge! It was a cold, windy ski, but the trails were mostly in good shape, even after the HS Section 7 Meet yesterday and with the blowing/drifting. I skied the Summit, Bronze, and Oslo loops. Summit was part of yesterday's race course, but the groomers were able to rehabilitate it fairly well. Bronze was mostly pristine corduroy, but Oslo had a soft skate deck (poles punched through pretty regularly) and is pretty drifted-in. With the drifting, the snow was fairly slow, but it's good for training if you like a workout. I'd rate Summit as good trending toward fair with the drifting, Bronze as good, and Oslo fair trending toward poor, again because of the drifting.

(David Sonnenberg)