Conditions: Firm, recently groomed, classic skiing, plenty of snow for good skiing.
Beautiful forest. Great skiing, plenty of snow.

(Susan Hann)

Conditions: Trail conditions were fair to good... some icing of groomer track, but overall a very nice skiing experience! Could use some new snow but have enough.
I skied the trails for 3.5 hours today, covering almost all of them... and I saw no other skiers! Where else in Minnesota could you have that solitary a ski for that long?

(Randy Roff)

Conditions: Good to very good. Groomed Thursday morning. Some drifting afterward in the few open areas.
We have had no significant melt or freezing rain all month.

(Andy Fisher)

Conditions: Very good. Trails with close tree cover are shallower and curves are a bit icy.
My wife and I had the trails to ourselves. Skied all that I had groomed earlier in the day. About 26 degrees and blue wax made for good grip and fast glide.

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(Andy Fisher)

Conditions: Fresh 2" of snow groomed and tracked today. Firm 6" base and about a foot to 16" in the woods. Tracked all the Northern trails so far (Flathorn Lake and surrounding).
Set up nicely and will ski it myself in an hour or so!

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(Andy Fisher)

Conditions: Good to very good.
Stayed at NFL as I have done for years because it is my favorite place to classic ski out your cabin door. The beautiful trail system always has snow when you can't find it anywhere else on the north shore and this year is no different. Trail #15 was the only one I found that didn't have good coverage.

(Kristi Lee)

Conditions: Amazing! Really enjoyed trails, 20, 19, 14, 21, 23, 24 to 11! Love skiing there!
There are a few places that snow coverage isn't the best. 15 Was a bit bumpy.

(Michelle Wall)

Conditions: Good to Great! All trails groomed.
National Forest Lodge wins again for best classic trails in my book. They have snow, plenty of it. Get a cabin and ski your heart out.

(Holly Bayer)

Conditions: Solid base. Fresh 2" snow over the weekend. All trails groomed and tracked Sunday morning.
Excellent to good conditions depending on the trail. Some of the more rugged narrow trails where snow accumulates less due to adjacent tree cover are still a bit uneven and bumpy. Please be especially careful on these trails, especially if skiing solo. Never a guarantee someone will be by any time soon to assist. Verizon cell coverage is fairly good over most of the area.

(Andy Fisher)

37 Rovers spent the 3-day MLK weekend at National Forest Lodge and found a foot of snow piled on logs along these classic-only trails. Skiing through snow falling Saturday and Sunday felt like being inside a snow globe that's been shook up, and also made our skis fast. Andy groomed and tracked most of the 30k of trails on Friday and again on Sunday. Some of us braved the polar plunge after heating up in the sauna. A pack of wolves wandered onto the ski trails Sunday night and we marveled at their tracks Monday morning.

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(David Byrne, Minnesota Rovers Outdoors Club)