Not yet groomed after the big snow yesterday but two cars were in the parking lot before us and had self tracked beautifully. At the last minute we applied liquid glide wax and boy was it needed to keep from clumping up! Blue skies, sunny day and skiing along a river and in the woods at 36 degrees. Doesn't get any better than a day like this on the north shore!

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(Karla Anderson)

All trails are classic, single track only. Skied outer loop including spur to Bean Lake. Trails were freshly groomed and all trails were In beautiful condition. Surprisingly few people on the trails for a beautiful Sunday. Noted that the Palisade Valley trail (to Tettegouche) is not groomed.

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(Lyndon Torstenson)

With all of the great reports lately I had to get up to Northwoods as it is one of my favorite trails. The conditions were as good as I have seen there with great grooming, deep snow and no debris or ice. I skied into Bean Lake. Saw lots of wolf tracks along the way. If you are lucky enough to catch it with these conditions after it has been freshly groomed you won't be disappointed.

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(Gene Karwoski)

Is there a conspiracy keeping this trail secret? Northwoods has it all: scenery, solitude, and closeness to nature. The south/west end is flat and rolling, while the north/east end has longer ups and downs; at least in today's conditions, none of the caution downhills required braking or rapid turning. I was making first pole plants on new grooming of the couple inches that recently fell. The track was soft, and I punched through occasionally, but it wasn't frequent enough to diminish the experience. Put on the powder baskets and goop on the kick wax to let the skis do the work. Thank you groomers!

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(Karl Holub)

The skiing is phenomenal. We had sunshine and perfect snow conditions. The trails are all cleared and the groomer has been grooming everyday since the big snow storms and the trails were cleared. The snow is deep and fluffy. It was the best ski condition I have seen all year.

(Phil Borer)

Had my best ski of the year today at Northwoods. This is such a fantastic trail. Beautiful singletrack with really fun long downhill sections. Tracks were well-used but still very skiable, and extremely fast this afternoon.

(Keith Gilbert)

Caught up with the groomer around noon today. Trails are fully recovered from the twin calamities of weather and walkers and are skiing great. The fresh snow from the past couple days has covered any debris, and aside from a couple of fallen trees that didn't quite make it to the ground, there's very little evidence of how torn up it was back there. Tracks on the more recently opened trails are predictably soft and slow, but great to see everything opened back up.

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(Tim Lupfer)

Many of the best trail sections (in my opinion) were still closed from the Christmas storm that downed several trees. We ran into some snowmobilers on the upper back half clearing trees and only had the snowmobile tracks to ski on for a good bit. Slow moving. Still, love this trails, so quant, so peaceful, worth a try, plenty of snow.

(Joel Sundstrom)

Four of us skied the connector trail to Tettegouche breaking trail the whole way once we left the Northwoods Ski Trail system. Props to the folks who have clearly been working hard to open that network. There were fewer trees, branches, and brush across the trail than we were fearing and great conditions for breaking trail. More open in the lowlands and wetlands than I remember from years past.

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(Fred Sproat)

Groomers have done a phenomenal job to get a roughly 4km skiable loop open. Track is deep, solid, and pretty fast. Debris is largely not an issue. Unfortunately, the majority of the small downhills are littered with deep boot prints. The hill before the the second snowmobile crossing is the worst. It's still skiable, but I'd advise caution and a bit of luck. You don't want to catch a tip in one of those.

(Tim Lupfer)