Skied all the trails both Saturday and Sunday. The new snow and cold temps made for very slow conditions, but there's plenty of snow around. The trails were groomed Saturday evening, but another 1/2" fell after so Sunday morning was 1/2" - 1" of fluff on a moderately firm base. Conditions should be excellent after another grooming or two. Get out and enjoy!

(Oliver Pentinmaki)

Beautiful ski from perch lake this morning. Some freshly groomed, everything else groomed last night, leaving hard, smooth base covered by an inch of light powder. Perfect for a relaxed, quiet ski.

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(Mitchell Campbell)

Beautiful light snow falling, accumulating to around 3"+ made for some super skiing. Several classic skiers had already skied in tracks. Once the groomers have a chance to level and set track, the conditions will no doubt be the best of the season. I ran into another skier who said "It's like skiing on a cloud today". He was right on.

(Pete Wurl)

Got 2-3 inches of snow last night. As a result it allowed us to tear up and set a new deck and tracks. With falling temperatures tonight this will allow both surfaces to harden nicely. Should provide some nice skiing conditions for the weekend.

(Dennis Zielinski)

The deck was tore up at Washburn this morning. Due to the weekend thawing it needed a lot of work. It was resurrected back to life. If we get more snow, it will certainly help conditions. The classic tracks were left alone.

(Dennis Zielinski)

It appears that the majority of the trails were tilled on Saturday, and that choice by the groomers made and kept things in great shape. Lots of people out skiing skate and classic. There was a fair amount of oak leaves in spots.

(Pete Wurl)

The Washburn Trails were as good as they get midwinter this afternoon. The trails were freshly groomed this morning and had been only lightly skied. Glide was very good in mid teens temperatures. The grooming had laid down 3" of fresh snow received this past Thursday on an already good base. Both the skate deck and classic tracks were near perfect--smooth and even. No dirt spots, grass, or rocks at all. The surrounding forest was dressed up with a coverlet of fresh powder. Sunny skies. Marvelous. This report is based on personal observation of 100% of the Washburn skate trail, all of which has a set single classic track on one side of the trail. This skier skied all Washburn classic track yesterday, all of which was in excellent condition. Skiing was commenced and concluded at the Judy Swank Shelter at the Perch Lake Oneida County Park trailhead.

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(Mark Nienstaedt)

All trail segments were gone over this morning. This means the skate deck has been cleaned up and new classic track wee set also.

(Dennis Zielinski)

After receiving a paltry 1 inch on Monday morning we cleaned up the skate deck, but didn't touch the classic tracks. We want the new snow to be skied over, so as to cover some ice that was making up the tracks in spots.

(Dennis Zielinski)

Very good conditions. Slick on the downhills, plenty of grip with a universal klister base covered with v30. There are few churned up dirt spots in the slow zones (flats and up hills) that can easily be avoided. Washburn never disappoints, hats of to the trail builders and groomers.

(Pete Wurl)