As Dave said, surprisingly good. I did a couple of laps around the 5K, including Special K, at about 11 AM Thursday. Some sections quite good, but lots of short "skating rink" sections, where the quads burned trying to keep going straight (even with a fair amount of off-season roller skiing!). First two pictures are looking both directions from the same spot (near 1 K marker) to show variability of conditions. One big difference from previous years, trail is cut a good meter to 2 meters wider. Should be great when (not if, I'm an optimist) we get real winter.

Photos:

(Tim Holst)

Conditions: Fair-- Skiable, and just groomed.
Skied the 5 K loop at 3PM. Packed and groomed for skate only. Surprisingly good, with how wet the snowfall was. Only rare rocks, and some slushy patches, but didn't have to take skis off to get through. Thanks to John for grooming today! Didn't go on the 10 K, but believe it was not completely groomed or skiable.

(Dave Arvold)