Scheduling: Section 8 Jr High Championships will be held at Mt Itasca on Saturday, February 1. Trails will be closed to the public during the races, which will take most of the day.

(Jonathan Arntson)

A cold evening rewarded the new grooming with rock solid tracks and crisp corduroy on the biathlon loop and the main loops of the Grant-in-Aid trails. Some of those back trails were not scratched up last round and won't give much of an edge so proceed with caution.

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(Jeff Pesta)

All trails groomed and tracked except exit ramp. Trail system is as good as it's been in years, due to the recent snow.

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(Derek Youngren)

Even with a little snow drifting in some of the tracks, MYXC skiers, coaches and parents enjoyed great skiing in the tracks and grooming. Even the steep downhills were fun and not formidable. 5 year olds mastered Frog Pond. 7 year olds Waterfall. Not all, but some. Recent snow ensured good bite to snowplow if needed, but why do that?! Classic skiers use G2 skis, no wax. Skaters had firm deck throughout.

(Catherine McLynn)

All trails except otter slide pistenbully groomed tonight after the races. Trails look great! Thanks Section 8 with trusting us to host your race! With the added snow, conditions are as good as we could hope for.

(Derek Youngren)

Groomed and tracked all lower trails, service road, bitter sweet and mag view. All other trails were groomed last Thursday and are good to go. Mt Itasca will be hosting a high school race on Friday Jan 24th all day all of the lower trails will be closed to the public but upper service road and the upper trails will be open.

(Derek Youngren)

Scheduling: the races scheduled for this weekend (Jan 18-19) have been cancelled due to cold temperatures. The venue will be groomed and open to public skiing through the weekend. Enjoy if you are hardy!

(Jonathan Arntson)

Conditions are excellent on machine snow, good on natural snow. Track set on all trails. Come ski over the next several beautiful days! Scheduling: Saturday, January 18: Mt Itasca is the site of a large HS race; the venue will be closed for public skiing all day. Sunday, January 19: biathlon race from 10:30-12:30; otherwise open. Race may be cancelled due to cold.

(Jonathan Arntson)

Made another pass with the Pistenbully this evening to further firm up the skate deck and reset tracks after the new snow. We had a total of about 6.5" this past week. Conditions are getting really nice with the new snow! We were able to groom the Service Road and Bittersweet Loop/Magview with the Pistenbully for the first time this season, so those trails should be just as good as the machine made snow loops. Conditions should be awesome!

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(Bob Conzemius)

Packed everything as much as possible before MyXC and set tracks on top (Bittersweet) on the Grant-in-Aid system. Packed as much of the upper biathlon trails as I could, but it will need more work. Enjoy the 5" new snow!

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(Bob Conzemius)