Ventured out to the Creek Trail after work on Thursday and found excellent conditions, so good I did it twice! Nice to get off the man-made snow loop and into the woods, although very few skiers present anywhere at Elm.

(Mark Rathbun)

Did the Valley and Northern Lights trails. Both skate and classic, groomed and classic tracks were scary fast. Very hard corduroy on skate deck making downhills quite 'chattery.' School kids on downhill areas were having a ball.

(Steve Paladie)

I tried skating the Valley Trail a bit after noon. It still hadn't been groomed, so I was dealing with about 2" of heavy, sticky snow. When I jumped into the classic tracks to avoid having to pole on the descents, I found them to be very undulating, becoming uncomfortably bumpy at higher speeds. I gave up after just one lap. Continuing would have produced a very good workout, but not enjoyable at all.

(Ron Refsnider)

Skied Elm around 9:45 am on man made snow loop. Valley was not groomed yet so around 1 inch of snow on the track, skiable but slow and more effort. Classic would have been easier.

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(Bernard Cerles)

The manmade snow was great as always and back to fast conditions after slowing down after the last snow. I skated and hopped in the tracks sometimes to double pole. After hard wax over the weekend it would be back to klister or no-wax skis again. They had blocked off the trails to the Lake and Creek as they hadn't groomed them yet and I'd guess they were quite icy. There was a large group of school kids out there particularly around the chalet area although I think they ventured out to the Northern Lights as some were talking about the Elevator Shaft (Cowabunga downhill). Hope they made it.

(Mark Lahtinen)

Skied only Valley man made snow loop around 9:30 am. With the rain the day before, the snow has harden making it much faster without being icy thanks to excellent grooming. All was very enjoyable.

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(Bernard Cerles)

I classic skied the Lake and North Loop trails. Lake was well groomed and snow was mostly firm without being icy making for really pleasant skiing. North Loop didn't seem to have been groomed today. It was missing classic tracks in some spots and the skate deck had a lot of ski marks making some parts a little more challenging and the steep downhill was bumpier than usual but overall still enjoyable.

(Lexie Thorpe)

Skied Valley, Creek, NL on the way back. Snow is compacting hence easier skiing. Valley was perfectly groomed as usual. Wanted to turn on Multiuse which had not been groomed and looked tedious. Creek was good, NL had not been groomed today so more ski marks all over but not bad. More people on downhill than on XC trails!

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(Bernard Cerles)

Skied Valley, Lake and Northern light around 9:30 am, all were groomed including Creek but not multi use. Snow was soft especially on Lake so more work compared to pre- storm. Should be perfect in a few days!

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(Bernard Cerles)

An inch of snow makes a big difference. With the holiday, the main parking lot was full, but mostly for the downhill area. Xc trails were not crowded. Parked at the beach lot. There are decent user-made tracks to Northern Lights. NL tracks were so so-so. The base seemed to have washed out on the right side in some areas, resulting in slippage. But the snow was sticky enough to make climbing hills easy. The man-made loop was very good.

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(Laurie Ford)