Conditions: Good to Excellent. Morning low -28. Hi -4. Arctic chaser dropping temp back down to -25 at 9pm. Areas of windblown snow and these areas were slow today.
Blade day on the PISTEN BULLY. Transition area from lake to trail and first km built up on Lotvola cup course, gap jump built and snow pulled in from side, leveling warps from snowmobile grooming on skaters waltz.
Skated less than an hour after grooming as Arctic chaser was dropping the temp down and skating was pretty fast considering the temp was -15...had set up quickly and the sugar pulled from the side made for nice surface which to ski upon. Grooming for real on Thursday after bit more maintenance grooming tomorrow.

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

An excellent day on the trails with a mixed bag of weather. Upper 20's to start the day followed by prairie clipper and 1-2" of new snow in the afternoon, wind and temps falling to 0 by evening. 40km of trail fresh groomed today. Tomorrow grooming action on trails used for Lotvola Cup race.

(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

Conditions: Excellent. High near 40, sunny, light winds most of the day. Falling temps and few flakes of snow.
Ski lessons late afternoon found the snow relatively dry and trails holding out great. Few southern exposed areas glazed over from softening earlier in the day. Overall very pleasant on the trails and lots of smiling faces. Grooming in the early morning on select trails will pull up drier snow. With the warmer temps today, we had to send out the nude skiing patrol!

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

Conditions: Perfect! 4-5" of new snow the past 24 hours. 8" new snow past 7 days. Clear, then cloudy, then clearing. 6 pm temp at -10, light winds.
Just four trails short have having the entire trail system front end renovator/Pisten Bully groomed today. (Lucky's Loype ginzu groomed) Those four trails will be groomed tomorrow morning as well as some clean up on trails groomed today, leaving the entire 64km trail system fresh groomed for the weekend. Lows near -30 tonight should act as good facilitator for set up process. Touch up grooming as needed during the Prez weekend.

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

Conditions: Freshly groomed after blowing and cold on Saturday. Excellent trails on Sunday in -10F degrees sunshine.
Our annual visit to Maplelag, and as usual, the best groomed trails in the state, if not the Lower 48 (haven't been to Alaska). Blizzard conditions on Saturday made for slow skiing, but the trails were freshly groomed on Sunday, and we were back up to speed! Beautiful sunshine and serene woods.

(Margit Johnson)

Conditions: Clear. -23 morning low climbing to high of -12. Wind not as bad today. Excellent conditions on fresh groomed, fair to good on windblown. 17km Pisten Bully groomed, 3km singletrack Ginzu groomed this morning. 1-20" of windblown snow on trails not fresh groomed today.
The grooming equipment moaned and creaked at 23 below this morning but the PB was necessary to bust up the drifts where drifted and drastically improved the skiing today. Skiing on the fresh groomed was very nice today and tracks were surprisingly fast. The wind did not blow snow into the tracks making for fine conditions. Very slow going for skating and trails not fresh groomed.
Trails should be groomed daily this week.

(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

Conditions: Stormy!!! Early morning low of +15 dropping to -10 at 4pm. Wind gusting strong, areas of drifted snow. 1-2" new accumulation past 12 hours.
This morning I set new tracks on about 20km of trail. Skiers heading out right after I groomed reported nice skiing once in the woods. I groomed the start area which is in the open up to 12 times but the wind kept filling in the tracks. Before lunch I groomed Skaters Waltz twice bumping into a few skiers and the grooming improved the conditions. Three hours later I skied a couple of laps on Skaters Waltz and it was really slow even though it had set up.... but was still fun skiing, felt good. I had waxed my skis carefully for the conditions but they still were slow due to the new snow and windblown action...hard time getting up to speed when skiing hard for a while. Grooming will resume once wind settles down.

(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

Conditions: Excellent. Cloudy, light winds, 20 degrees. 50 of 64km fresh groomed past two days. Select grooming planned for Saturday morning.
Friday ending a great week of skiing. This week we have been skiing the fresh groomed and the trails that had new snow from Monday but not fresh groomed and its all great. Caught a guy walking on the trails today and told him he should be skiing instead of walking but said something about equipment issues.

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

Conditions: Excellent!! Sunny, 7 degrees and light winds. 15km new tracks set today, 5km of skate lanes fresh groomed including Suicide Hill.
The inch or two of new snow mixed with the sugar snow groomed up perfect this morning and setting up nicely with the single digit temps. Skiing doesn't get much better. Trails not fresh groomed still skiing well on firm and well defined tracks. More grooming on Thursday. Good luck to all schools this week of Sections that trained at Maplelag earlier this winter.

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

Conditions: Very good to Excellent. Close to 1" new snow today. 30 degrees.
A great weekend of skiing with ideal temps and nice snow conditions. Took a classic ski today on single tracked Roy's Run. The new snow made for bit slower skiing but very quiet and peaceful in the woods, beautiful ski. Skiers checking in today requesting tracks to be left alone with the fresh snow on top so only fresh tracks set on select trails this week. Tracks will be reset on Wed and Thurs and skate lanes touched up tomorrow and later in week. First two pictures from Sunday.

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)