Bit cooler today with early morning low at 16 degrees, overcast and frosted trees. Chance of light snow this afternoon. Fresh grooming on 12 trails: Skaters Waltz, Sukkerbusk, Sap Run, Mother Hen, JibFly, Rootin Tootin, Mother North Star, Roy’s Run, Single Green, Double Green and the left track fresh groomed on Twin Lakes and Wavy Gravy. Trails groomed up relatively nice with some areas about as good as it gets and other areas still a bit icylike/glazed/crunchy, mainly the southern exposed areas. Areas of leaves and forest matter.  All in all should be some nice skiing today and tomorrow and any new snow will enhance the conditions. Grooming on Sunday planned on North Loup and Sukkerbusk with new tracks , and a touch up on Skaters Waltz down the middle.

A warm day on the trails with the temp reaching near 40 but still some very nice skiing. Fresh grooming this morning on Loon Return, Island Lake, Wavy Gravy, Twin Lakes, Bullhead, Lucky’s Loype, Skaters Waltz, Skaters Waltz extension and the skate lane on North Loup. Skiing on these trails was very nice today. Temp a bit warmer than forecasted so the dry snow that was pulled up softened and some areas glazed over again. Grooming in the morning planned on Sukkerbusk, Roy’s Run, Rootin Tootin, Mother North Star, Mother Hen, Sap Run and a new track set on Twin lakes and Wavy Gravy. Skate lane on Skaters Waltz also planned to be groomed. These trails should provide nice skiing for Saturday. Sunday as well if temp stays below 34 degrees. Reports from the trail all good as folks enjoyed skiing in the mild temps.

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A beautiful day on the trails. Morning low in the single digits, light winds and sunshine warming up to around 30 degrees. A bit of wind yesterday afternoon in to the evening but the weather has settled down and looks like some mild weather on tap through the weekend. Grooming on the trails tomorrow and Saturday morning. Areas of forest matter scattered on the trails but all in all the trails are in great shape with icy spots in the exposed areas on trails not recently groomed that should dis-appear with grooming. We also flooded the rink earlier this week, and despite a few bumpy spots, the rink is in great shape as well. Skiing this afternoon found more snow rollers in Roy’s field. Check out the photos on this page.

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A cold start to the day with early morning temp at -26!! No wind however and with bright February sunshine and temp warming up to around 0, beautiful conditions on the trails. The trails groomed Sunday are providing the best classic skiing with dry, and relatively clean snow and not so fast. Trails not groomed on Sunday but groomed last Friday or Saturday are glazed over in the exposed areas with fast tracks. Dusting of snow Monday morning took off the edge of some of the speed. Skating conditions are very nice right now, in particular on Skaters Waltz. High winds on Saturday did bring down some leaves and twigs but all in all the  trails are in great shape and folks skiing the past few days have reported good to very good skiing. On a personal note, I think the skiing is the best of the year right now!!  Grooming on Thursday and on through the weekend should make for some fantastic skiing as we enjoy the longer days and generally mild temps. On a side note, Saturday’s warm temps combined with the nature of the dry and light snow and high winds caused a unique situation in that snow rollers formed on certain areas. Not common to see this phenomenon but if you ski at Maplelag before the next snowfall, look in the skinny field to see the snow rollers!

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After the warmest weekend of the winter, temps cooling back down with highs in the negative single digits. Fresh grooming Sunday morning on Sap Run, Mother Hen, Sukkerbusk, JibFly, Twin Lakes, North Loup (track only) and Skaters Waltz. The trails groomed were getting the best reports for skiing Sunday including comments “doesn’t get much better!”  Grooming mixed the thin layer of crust with dry snow underneath and removing the debris from the trails as well. Trails not groomed Sunday morning have scattered icy spots but solid and fast tracks. The big wind on Saturday did bring down some leaves/branches and other forest matter to keep heads up for but all in all, some great skiing to be had on the trails.

Note: Lotvola Cup has been moved to March 7th for this year.

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