Conditions: Perfect temps for skating. We had a half inch of corduroy to skate on. Once again kudos to the grooming crew. Good day to set personal best.
Love skiing at ABR, its always good.

(Richard Homan)

Conditions: All trails groomed wide and level for skating with a fresh cut classic track that had set-up perfectly.
I skated on Sunday and was impressed with the volume of snow at ABR and their meticulous grooming. It was nice to get off of the man-made 'glaciers' in the Twin Cities and onto some natural snow. I highly recommend the drive up to ABR from Minneapolis, it's best skiing I've had all winter.

(Richard Schulze)

Conditions: Excellent conditions for both skate and classic.
ABR does an unbelievable job grooming their trails. Our classic tracks today were some of the best we've ever had skiing! Also, what makes ABR a great place is their variety of trails and beautiful scenery. One of our favorites is the Peltonen Pass Out Trail with all of it's wild hills.

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(Bill Lundberg)

Second shift of groomers are just coming in tonight and reporting excellent conditions out on the trails. The Pisten Bully is grooming full width and depth with a 15 inch base. First shift will complete retracking classic only trails and touch up grooming on the 70 km groomed trail system. The snowshoe trail is packed as well.

(Eric Anderson, ABR Trails)

Conditions: Excellent. Sounds like a broken record, but it's a "classic track" for both classic and skate.
Great Sisufest weekend in Ironwood. Thanks to the volunteers, snow gods, and great groomers from ABR. All trails at ABR have been regroomed and are in tip-top shape.

(Sue Schroeder)

Conditions: Outstanding. Perfect. Spectacular.
Skied the Sisu marathon, classic style. The tracks were cookie cutter perfect and the corduroy looked pretty sweet too. There were no bare spots and very little debris on the ground.

(Adam Schwartz-Lowe)

Sisu Ski Fest trail report: Mother nature has provided us with nearly 200 inches of snow and the race course is in great condition. The 2-3 inches of fresh snow from last night have been groomed in, creating an excellent surface for our events. See photos taken today from the last 5 km of the course.

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(Jonathon Rulseh)

Conditions: We received about 4 – 5 inches of snow today and last night. The groomers had 68 k groomed and tracked by 9 AM this morning and skiing was a bit stormy but pretty with the snow on the trees.
Grooming plans: We will regroom classic only trails in the AM and we will start to groom the SISU Race course in the sequence that we will be racing next Saturday AM. What this means is that Pit Point and Bachelors loops will be groomed and skied backwards all week and connectors will be groomed as well. This gives skiers a chance to preview the race course and day skiers a chance to the course as well.
The SISU Ski Fest is next Saturday starting at ABR at 8:30 AM and heading into downtown Ironwood. The majority of the skate trails at ABR will be used for the race Saturday morning. We will have about 30 km of classic open all day and 5 k of skating aopen all day. The entire ABR trail system opens again for skiing about 1 PM Saturday.

(Eric Anderson, ABR Trails)

Conditions: Yet another perfect day at ABR.
Perfect grooming. Deep base. Temperature mid-20s. Happy people. Doesn't get much better than that.

(Sue Schroeder)

Conditions: You can only describe perfect with so many words.
The Cities don't have snow because Ironwood took it all. I was amazed at the amount of snow the area has received. The trails were in just immaculate condition. There wasn't a bad spot on the entire trail. It's amazing how trails look with 2 feet of snow :).

(Vince Rosetta)