Just awesome. Skied the manmade snow (full loop open), around the lake, and to the nature center. Can easily use good skis for either skate or classic. Classic tracks on the natural aren't quite full depth but are still very good. Skate deck is firm enough on the natural. Great job groomers.

(Andrew Brown)

Wear your woolies today, it is cold but wonderful. It was tracked 95% of the way all the way out to the nature center. Man made snow trail was great as well this morning. Watch out for the bison.

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(Scott Greymont)

Fabulous and fast. Classic wax blue klister with extra blue and 1814 over pocket. Skate was great on trail to nature center. No groomed tracks on natural snow.

(Diane Pattridge)

Wonderful conditions today at Hyland. I skied all the natural trails and most of the machine made snow. Natural trail sections had great coverage, with only a few narrow ice patches along the subtle grooming spine—completely avoidable. The machine made snow felt fast and coverage of course was excellent. It was a great day for feeling like one's balance was 100 percent while still feeling fast.

(Mike Schowalter)

Skied both outer loops - great coverage - about 1.5 inches of snow on top so had to work for it. Beautiful though. Main groomed snowmaking areas fast and little icy. Happy we have snow. CC skiing is life ;).

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(Josh Bloom)

Beautiful scenery this morning with all the trees snow covered. Manufactured snow trails had a hard and fast skate deck. Classic tracks were set and looked to be in excellent shape. The natural snow trails had unpacked fresh snow over a firm base with occasional soft spots, The loose snow was a good 4" deep on sections of the North trail but only an 1" on most of lake. No classic tracks set on the natural snow trails. No bare spots and very little leaf debris or sticks. I used B skis but good skis would have been fine.

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(Steve Hum)

Natural trails around the lake didn't appear to be groomed. The man made snow track was well set but very wet. Skins were lacking traction. Beautiful scenery on the trails.

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(Scott Greymont)

Great conditions for zero skis! Otherwise, for regular cold skis, a bit slow going, but beautiful scenery (and you'll have plenty of time to look at it!). Classic tracks are quite nice and the skate deck had maybe a half inch of new snow on top of a nicely groomed base. I only checked out the man-made snow so as to preserve the natural snow for colder temps. Thanks groomers!

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(Bill Oyler)

Skied the snowmaking loop at dusk again. The trail had fresh, unrolled snow so it was slower. My pace dropped.7 mph. But there had been enough skier traffic to pack a center lane with high school racer traffic having done additional packing of Willow and Frog Town that made it okay. Once again I passed a straggling racer on the uphill on Willow and several passed me going the other way coming down off of Scenic. Then they were gone. Only met two other skiers after that. One using skins passed me near the top of the climb on Boulder but then he had no glide on the run out at the bottom of Boulder's downhill. Thank God he moved to the side because I was 10 to 15 seconds behind him arriving at the top and was carrying plenty of speed when I reached the bottom. I used FastWax Yellow LF.

(Keith Carlson)

Despite the weather and my wife's efforts to dissuade me, I went out to Hyland arriving about dusk. I caught a great window with the rain holding off for most of my circuit of the snowmaking loop and the high school racing just concluding. I passed two race stragglers on the end of the uphill on Williow and one on the middle, brief climb on outbound Frog Town. Contrary to my fears, it was not waterlogged snow. Instead it was moderately hard packed that was slightly glazed. It was around 35 degrees. There was no big snow plow wake on the Boulder downhill - just a little ridge and the climbs did not have a lot of loose snow, even the climb after the right angle turn on Frog Town's return - one of two climbs the other being Willow, which I was able to skate non-stop. I ended up completing the loop at a 6.4 mph pace on my third time out in my five day season so far. Great boost to this 70 year old's ego. I used Fast Wax Yellow LF.

(Keith Carlson)