very pleasant conditions. The trail is getting thinner, but is still in good condition. Two small patches of ice, a few dirty spots, and one or two depressions that likely will burn through soon. Most of the skate deck was very good. The classic tracks descending to the shoe were excellent - deep and with a nice smooth radius - great fun.

(Karl Dewahl)

Bravo groomers! It was another good day of skiing considering the loss of snow yesterday. This is such a wonderful resource and the groomers have done a phenomenal job throughout the season. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

(Brett Smith)

Conditions at Battle Creek this morning were variable. Most of the trail was in fair condition, but there are occasional ice patches that are mostly avoidable. The groomer was out until around 8am, which made the skate deck somewhat soft. Groomer did reset tracks in some areas but they were very soft. The A climb was closed.

(Spencer Davis)

7:30 am start, skated snowmaking loops. Grooming was very very nice again today. New this morning were a few icy patches, but they were easily avoidable and not in the danger zones. For example, cowabunga including the turn at the bottom were immaculate, so much fun. The very inside of the downhill turn at the far end of tree loop was a bit icy. As the morning went on more ice was exposed as skiers had a good time. I would say B skis early morning. There's still so many beautiful sections of snow to skate and lots of it seems to be natural snow. What a treat!

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(Jeff Streier)

Skated snowmaking starting at 730am. Absolutely gorgeous grooming, even on the trouble spots. Can't thank the crew enough. My Ramsey ski pass is so worth it. Once the sun and above freezing temps hit the snow, it got soft and some of the hardpack/ice got a bit exposed in spots. There's still a magic hour at BC!

(Jeff Streier)

All the snowmaking trails were open with good snow coverage, however, the evening conditions were not great for skate skiing as the ruts from skiers on the softer snow in the day time frozen into icy crud at night. The frozen iced over ruts made for some dicey downhills. I only skied the green and blue trails for that reason. Conditions looked good for classic. A few of the lights along the course are burnt out and there were no lights along the downhill section that goes from the blue tree trails back down to the pond loop. It also looked like a section in the back part of the south tree loop woods did not have any lights. I recommend avoiding that section at night when snow conditions are poor due to such bad lighting.

(Megan Evans)

I was surprised how good the conditions were yet in mid afternoon. I put B skis for adding on the silver trail - which was quite do-able and pretty good coverage. Snowmaking trails are good skis and the tracks were great - firm but I had good kick with my skin skis.

(Peter Aggen)

Very good conditions and plenty of vitamin D at BC West this morning. What a treat with good coverage throughout including the natural ski loop enchanted trail. Had to ski the big hill and you can do with confidence. Thank you BC groomers for all of your fine efforts this season. Do all you can to support Battle Creek!

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(Scott Ford)

The man-made snow trails are groomed. For the first time this year I ventured off onto a skier-tracked natural snow trail. I skied only the flat Enchanted Forest trail and not the hilly World Cup trail.

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(David Byrne, Minnesota Rovers Outdoors Club)

skating was good, mostly corduroy in new snow. some areas old snow, but grooming is fine. tracks are good in most areas. They are some areas with blown snow on tracks and skate deck.

(Jim Lasch)