A great weekend of skiing on the trails. Conditions pretty much as good as it gets. Temps in the mid teens both days with light winds and lots of sunshine both days. Fresh grooming Sunday morning on Sukkerbusk, Twin Lakes, Skaters Waltz, JibFly, Rootin Tootin and Bullhead lake trail and the bootleg extension. Looks like some snowy weather moving in followed by some cooler weather but nothing colder than what we have already seen this winter!! Fantastic skiing should be on tap with cold weather remaining in place, keeping the snow fresh.
After the morning groom, the entire trail system has been groomed 1-3 times the past four days including the short cut over trails. Skiing conditions are excellent. Dusting of snow the past 24 hours. The compacted base on the trail is 6-9″ and the snow depth in the woods is 16-20″. Skaters Waltz, the extension of Skaters and North Loup groomed for skating and all other trails have a either a single track set or double tracks. North Loup also has a track set on the side for classic skiing and open for skating as well. Should be a great weekend of skiing with ideal temps and good snow. Refresh grooming on Sunday morning.
Another beautiful winter day on the trails. With lots of snow, pretty much every day is beautiful. Another morning with negative temps as -15 recorded this morning. Warming up a bit with sun cloud/mix before all sunshine, light winds and single digits above. Grooming this morning on Mother Hen, Sap Run, Lucky’s Loype, Bullhead, the “toot” and Debbie Woodles Cutoff!! Ski conditions are excellent and with cold temps, it has been a good old fashioned like winter so far. The storm watch for the next 24 hours has been downgraded a bit but either way we plan on grooming most of the trails tomorrow for the weekend skiers and should be another fantastic weekend of skiing.
About as good as it gets for a winterlike day on the trails. Conditions were pretty much ideal for the DL Invitational ski meet today. Cloudy in the morning and then clearing in the afternoon with no wind and temps in the middle teens. Teams from Detroit Lakes, Bemidji, Brainerd, Long Prairie, Deer River, Fergus Falls, and Northwest and Battle Lake hit the trails with lots of smilin’ good times. Conditions a bit soft for racing with all the fresh snow but beautiful in the woods and could of not asked for a better day. Grooming on the trails the rest of the week as we gear up for the weekend. Select photos below from the day. More photos and results will be posted on skinnyski.com (go to racing/results and high school section)
After a early morning low of -27, temp warmed up quite nicely to 16 degrees this afternoon. A great day on the trails with sunshine and light winds and clouds moving in the afternoon. Grooming on Rootin Tootin in the morning with new tracks set and afternoon grooming on North Loup, Skaters Waltz extension for skating and Skaters Waltz, Mother North Star and Sap Run trails groomed for the DL Invite ski races tomorrow. The trails groomed up very nice and should be a awesome day of skiing. No school and skiing…doesn’t get much better! Pursuit skiers will start out on Sap Run before hooking up with Mother North Star and skiing it then finishing up on Sap Run for the classic part of the pursuit. Skiers will then change to skate skis and do Skaters Waltz plus double green and Suicide Hill and finish up with Skaters. JV classic skiers will do Pursuit classic course and JR High skiers will do Sap Run twice.
