Excellent snow continues! Skate skied all the trails between 10:00 am and 11:30 am. Very little ice, just a few small patches on Lake Trail. Very little leaf litter. Classic tracks appeared good everywhere. Snow getting a little soft by 11:00 am with temp of 34°F and partly sunny.

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(Craig Wiklund, North Star Ski Touring Club)

The Hyland crew did a great job grooming after the overnight snowfall! Skate skiing was faster than expected with nice firm base and no ice. Great spring skiing!

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(Bill Oyler)

Skate skied all of the trails at Hyland between 11 AM and 12:30 PM. Snow condition/grooming was fantastic, both on the manufactured snow, and the natural snow! Only a few small areas of ice starting to form on the far side of the lake trail. Only one area of minor leaf/bark litter on the lake trail. Classic tracks generally looked good too. By 12 PM, a couple of the uphills that directly faced the sun, we're starting to soften up and get a bit churned. Everything else was still quite firm. Then the clouds came in and blocked a lot of the sun, which had been pretty bright up until then. Air temp was about 29°F when I started and 36°F when I finished.

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(Craig Wiklund, North Star Ski Touring Club)

Skate skied natural and manufactured snow trails from about 10 to 11:15 am. Natural snow trails still in very good condition with solid base. Classic track rather shallow on natural trails. Groomer did wonders breaking up base to make it skiable. Pisten Bully might have had mechanical as saw one parked out on intersection of Hill and Lake trail (see photo).

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(Ken Kuznia)

Skated all the natural trails and most of the manmade snow trails. Overall great shape, relatively icier snow in the shade and softer snow in the sun but was surprised at how nice the trails were overall even in midafternoon. Some icy spots in the southern trails, especially toward the end on the west side of the lake, also some ice or protoslush or something on a small rightward uphill on the Hill trail (this section of hill often seems to degrade in the heat and sun before other spots), but no real problems. The northern trails seemed in better shape overall. The manmade snow trails were great as usual, although I actually preferred the natural trails which seemed a bit firmer.

(Kristian Markon)

Tracks on Lake and Hill trails were icy. I ended up skiing on the skate deck, or the shoulder to the right of the tracks. The man-made snow loop was much better.

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(Laurie Ford)

Did some klister skiing on the natural snow trails and I have to say it was great. The groomers are doing an amazing job. Tracks were intact and had seen little use. I kicked Start Wide on one ski and Guru 39 on the other.

(Peter Leugers)

Skated all man-made snow and natural trails at 1:00pm. Trails were slow/soft/sticky but in great condition.

(Philip Westover)

Fantastic conditions on the man-made snow loop today. Groomers got everything nice and firm; snow is a little soft as you might expect with the recent warm days but snow was still reasonably fast and it was a beautiful day to be out!

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(Park Walter)

Skate skied all the trails early afternoon. Best conditions of the year and my fastest ski. All trails were well groomed, and in good condition. Thank you groomers for your great work.

(Mary McGrory-Usset)