Still great skiing. No rocks showing anywhere. A few sticks and acorns in the tracks, so if you are finicky, use your B+ skis. Tracks have a bit of glazing in maybe 2% of the area due to high sun angle. Minimal foot traffic.

(John Rosebush)

Best at the Cliff in the last three years. Double tracked in the woods and single tracked in both open field segments. Fast glide and great grip. No problems with "multi-use" of the ski trails. Kudos to the groomers and also to alternate sports enthusiasts for respecting the hard work these volunteers do!

(John Rosebush)

I skied late this morning at 20F. Classic trails had been combed, packed, and retracked the evening before and conditions were fantastic.

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(Jim Schoelles)

No evidence of machine grooming. A skier made track exists, but due to the crust underneath a small amount of powder, and sequential areas of drifted snow alternating with blown off areas, i.e. icy crust, it is not the best ski---lots of ankle rolling. Also lots of blown down sticks. Hopefully more snow will improve things.

(John Rosebush)

4 pm. 38 degrees. Skied on most of the system. Since we broke the trail Tuesday after the snow had mostly tapered off, things have changed. The powder has turned to mashed potatoes. The only tracks are made be skiers as it does not appear any grooming has been done, however, it is a decently flat and deep track with very few hiking postholes. Don't know how the new 1/2" of snow on top of the tracks will affect this. If it is cold dry snow, make sure to liquid wax or Pam your waxless kick zone or you may have icing problems.

(John Rosebush)

Wet snow to slush with lots of foot traffic. Some hidden puddles. We did part of the trail but then had to resort to skiing the campground due to trail disappearing at the top of the hill near the cabin. It was skiable today but likely not again til more snow.

(John Rosebush)

After skiing the last two days with backcountry skis to pack down drifting, a few others have skied on my tracks and today it was quite nice with RCS racing skis as none of the tracks filled in. Leaves are drifting in but with double tracks you can avoid them.

(Paul Kuenn)

Got to high cliff at 4:40pm. No work had been done on the trails (no packing or track setting). I was the first one on trail after the snow stopped. Evidence of snowshoer on middle of trail but this must have been earlier as tracks were mostly snowed/drifted in. Slow deep snow but still fun. I made a decently flat skier-made track out and back. Just before I got back to the lot, ran into another skier with a headlight. The short time I was the third tracks (instead of first on the way out and second on the way back) made the glide much better. Back to parking lot at 5:40 pm...just about "civil dusk" as I could still barely see. Also, hopefully they will plow the park roads -- they were not plowed yesterday (no problem for All Wheel Drive with 4 newish snow tires but hill would have been a challenge without).

(John Rosebush)

We were hoping for enough icy base and perhaps 2" of fresh snow to make it ski-able. Unfortunately, not enough base to cover rocks, roots, etc. and what base there was had had enough foot traffic prior to freezing that it was not smooth. Almost fell on the one downhill due to rock stopping one ski. Not worth the 10 minute drive. The volunteers have done a great job there this year with almost nothing to work with, but until they get more snow don't bother.

(John Rosebush)

Classic trails on the top: 4-6 inches in the woods, 6-8 in the fields. Groomed in the woods -- thin cover, rocks in places, but quite skiable. Mostly groomed in the fields -- an excellent snow cover -- no issues. Sorry, I don't have any information about conditions on skating trail. Equestrian/mtn-bike trails in the fields: sufficient/excellent snow coverage but you need to break your own trail -- lots of fun. A great opportunity, as snowmobilers are still asleep.

(Chris Szymonski)