The multi-use trail was in great shape late this morning for skating. A couple bike tracks and sled dog tracks but otherwise very good!

(BrIan Tifft)

Snow was a weird soft and cold texture, which made for somewhat slow skiing. Trails were packed and tracked, not freshly groomed, but it had been groomed somewhat recently. Classic tracks were sort of set, but not in great condition in several areas since the snow is pretty soft. Still good trail and good snow to be out on.

(Tiffany Miller)

Between 8:30 & 9:30 I skated Valley & Northern Lights, and ventured out on the return leg of Lake, going as far as Goose Lake. Valley was near-perfect as usual. N. Lights appeared freshly dragged, and was a bit soft, but nice for skating. Classic tracks have been completely erased by the dragging everywhere on N. Lights. Lake Trail was freshly dragged & great for skating, tho' a bit soft, with very fresh, but shallow classic tracks. It seemed odd for the freshly-set classic tracks to end where Lake joined N. Lights, despite N. Lights appearing freshly dragged.

(Ron Refsnider)

Skied the man-made trails at Elm Creek. The snow was definitely a bit slushy but completely skiable and the downhills were fast. Classic tracks appeared to be decent shape on most of the course.

(Hannah Weissman)

Stuck to the man-made loop Tuesday night. Rutted, slushy, but fast and fun to ski. Groomer was heading out to the Northern lights loop about 8:30 - I don't understand this as it was not below freezing yet.

(Charlie Anderson)

I did a short--very short--skate before I switched over to classic. They had groomed everything, but... *squish squish*. The weather makes it what it is. Despite not having great (or hardly any) wax on my skins, let alone skin treatment, the tracks on the manufactured loop were pretty good--faster than the skate lane. Ventured out to N Lights because I saw set track, and was surprised they were in very good shape. I say B skis, because the wet may not be the best for people's best classic skis. Probably OK if skating, though. Not a lot of debris or burn through yet, surprisingly. Just beware that, if classic-ing the natural snow, the melt down is making it so that your pole plants (predominantly right arm) sometimes go rather deep--so watch your force. It even happened a couple times with my left pole plants.

(Andrea Potyondy-Smith)

Caught the Valley classic trail just after noon before rain and it was great, neither slush nor ice. Took a peek at Northern Lights - not sure if groomed, seemed a little slippery. But had a fun ski, and well worth coming out. Thanks groomers.

(Karen Peteres)

Did the northern bit - Monarch and the multiuser trail. Morning conditions were good, with good firm tracks on Monarch, but by noon the snow was getting soft in the sunny areas. The multiuse surface was a little choppy, but very skiable. Some skate skiers and skijourers were out, seemed to have no problems.

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(Laurie Ford)

Parked at the beach lot (very full at the main lots), and skied the outer loop, snowmaking loop, and Northern Lights. Generally very good conditions. The natural snow trails were a little rutted but very skiable (always hard to compare against the artificial snow), had plenty of coverage and wasn't icy. Downhills were just fine, good control and smooth. Surprised to run into three groups of walkers out on the outer loop, haven't had that happen before. Lots of skiers out, including kids classes, but never crowded.

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(Bruce Adelsman)

The Valley trail was groomed and the tracks were good. The Northern Lights trail was groomed but the track were in very bad shape. Snow was icy and hard and in some places too slippery to ski on outside the tracks.

(Alex Van Dyke)