The groomer was out ahead of us for the second straight day pounding down another surprising, daily light snowfall. Away from the beginning cart paths, Silver, Gold, Summit trails are in amazingly good condition. Powder of last week was transformed into an increasingly flat, firm skate deck. Base is still too thin for classic tracks. Just a few rock heads and wheel rut dirt splotches remain. There's nothing like skiing continuous hilly trails again!

(Tim Salo)

We have approximately 50 km of our Nordic trails that have been rolled. This includes; Northern Lights, Summit, Wynne Creek, Bronze, Laurentian, Silver, Cedar, and Gold. We just upgrade our trails to "Fair" condition, so bring your "B" skis. We still only have a 1-2 inch base, so pole plants aren't the best yet. We still need more snow before we can start setting track or using the knifes on the ginzu. We will continue to roll the trails until we receive more snow, so keep the snow dances going. We have machine made snow in the Nordic Stadium with 2 sets of track set around the perimeter.

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(Benji Neff)

Summit, Bronze and Northern Lights trails were all packed Thursday yielding about 2" of medium firm base. In addition to the packed trails, powder classic skied the Wynne Creek, Silver, Laurentian, Gold, Cedar, Biwabik Spur and Oslo Wednesday and Thursday. Unpacked trails were fair with about 6"+ of dry powder snow on a bit of scattered icy November base. Rock hits were plenty on the unpacked trails. Packed trails were fantastic for flat track and skied in track classical. Conditions can only get better with additional grooming and more snow.

(Tim Salo)

Rolled. Lumpy but decent skiing. Skating is your best bet. Summit and bronze are fine. Worth the time for most.

(Joe Bettendorf)