More Wirth magic! It was great. If I'm being picky, it was a little crunch and there was some mashed potatoes on some uphills. But it was fast, excellent conditions.

(Paul Larson)

Skied the Loppet Pouli today. The weather was great! With the Pouli being after the main race the course became mashed potatoes on the uphill and icy on the downhills. Thank you to the course attendants who made good attempts to cover the ice on the downhills and turns. Glad to be able to race with the recent weather. Red and yellow wax were on point. What a fun race!

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(Jack Burns)

Skied around 11am to noon. Skied outer loop twice, once classic and once skate technique. My GPS watch measured loop at 5.3KM. Loop is challenging and lots of fun with a variety of terrain. Uphills started to get mushy towards noon.

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(Ken Kuznia)

At 8:00 am the trail conditions were excellent - firm skate deck and well-formed tracks (31F). No bare spots and 100% clean snow. Trail was also very good at 11:00 am with only a few areas seeing some slush from the sun. Fortunately, a good majority of the trail is shaded from good tree cover. Well done and thanks once again to the grooming team!

(Jim Nehl)

Mid-morning at Wirth presented one sign and one omen of the warm weather. The sign: IMAC conference meet skiers in t-shirts. The omen: a V-shaped formation of geese high above, heading north. In January. Not good. Back on the ground, pleasant snow conditions at 9am were softening considerably by noon, and the base was thinning in some low-lying, high-sun areas.

(David Moore)

Excellent, fun, fast skating conditions this morning on the full man-made loop (somewhere between 5K and 6K). Nice and firm in most areas and solid classic tracks throughout, and the snow was actually a lot cleaner than I expected. Thanks for the hard work, trails crew!!

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(Bill Oyler)

It was tough skiing Tuesday night at Wirth. I fell three times where snowplowing had bared ice on downhill turns. I saw a lot of people - kids and adults - fall. Ruts, ice chutes, and more! Oh boy! Plus -- I had several near misses with kiddos in their classes. The green meadow loop was in the best condition, I would say, and with that loop a BYOL (bring your own light) trail, it was much quieter last night. Trail 18 was in pretty good shape and pretty fun, although it felt rather narrow, especially with so many people using it. It was an odd feeling snow -- almost like skiing on glass beads.

(Lee Penn)

Tough skiing for me tonight at Wirth - lots of ruts, ice chutes and piles of snow on downhills and potato piles building at the bottoms of the hills. Felt very technical and tough to control! So thankful for the trails but tonight, I had to bail.

(Elissa Cedarleaf Dahl)

Skate lane is getting a little soft this afternoon. The shaded sections of trail on the Luce Line and the Twin Lakes are to me in the best shape. There are a couple of dirty fat bike or hiker tracks crossing on the Twin Lakes loop and a few ice balls at the bottom of the north finger but otherwise smooth sailing.

(Mark Bushinski)

Nicely groomed at Theo this morning for classic and skate. The loops in the best shape were Twin Lake and Ridgeline. The tracks in the open sun were a little slushy by late morning. Thanks to the groomers for keeping it going!

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(Bill Lundberg)