Surprisingly good conditions after light snowfall covered the ice, which when compacted by previous skiers, made for a pleasant, safe run. Tracks skied out a bit here and there but otherwise in great shape along the entire trail. Blue wax for kick worked fine. Light snow falling at the time melted into water droplets hanging from tree branches.

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(Bob King)

Skied classic from 6:30-8am, hoping for fresh grooming but the tracks were glazed and terrifyingly fast (in a good way)! I was using Rode Violet kicker, which wasn't quite sticky enough. The skate deck looked incredible!

(Tom MacDonald)

Fresh grooming at Lester this morning. I ran into the groomer (thank you!) and about 50% of trails had been freshly done while I was there. Great solid track for classic, skate deck firm in the places not freshly groomed, somewhat soft on the freshly groomed areas. Really no debris on trail to speak of. Awesome conditions.

(Gabi Hester)

I noticed the City had posted that Lester was groomed today so I parked at the first bridge and skated everything up hill from there. It was true, the entire system had been groomed. I can't say enough about how fun Lester is with fresh grooming. With all the traffic, it would be great if the City could have a set grooming schedule for Lester. The skate lanes on the lower sections had already seen a lot of traffic and the farther up hill I got the less traffic. I like doing the D-H loop because the H cut off doesn't get much use. It didn't disappoint today.

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(Nic Bacigalupo)

Creamy deluxe. Big dump of new snow freshly groomed. All the loops are now rolled and tracked, even L and N. One little thing to watch for: At the bottoms of some of the hills, the tracks go a bit kittywhompus.

(Catherine Winter)

Sunny, soft table but good grooming for all skiing. Debris finally covered!! Yeeha!
I used my A skis because that's all I've got.

(Chris Bunch)

Lester was re-groomed just after noon today, including the top section. Big thanks to the City sawyers, groomers and DXC volunteers who worked to clear the fallen trees. I used good skis but there are still a number of twigs/sticks on trail to navigate around.

(Annalisa Peterson)

Hard pack skate deck heavily used. A few short sections with some pine tree needles embedded in skate deck. If using good or B skis, I would avoid the loop south of A marker as it has lots of pine tree debris still.

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(Ken Kuznia)

Wonderful skiing at Lester. Nice classic tracks. Skied partial under the lights. Magical. Lots of skiers using headlamps in addition to the lights from the light poles. Just a little bit of debris in trail. Didn't ski through the lower pine tree sections.

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(Ken Kuznia)

Tracks are getting washed out in areas. Still groomed up to H with the only side loop groomed, the D loop. If trying to ski beyond H, it's rough for a short stretch, and then beautifully groomed for about 2K and then reverts back to deep snow with two ruts to ski in. Still pretty fun if you don't mind the uneven deep ruts. Avoid the J hill, it's the only part that has some small trees down.

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(Carol Koos)