Conditions: Skate and classic excellent on the manmade as expected.
A little rusty at this. The snow was firm and fast. Considered going out on the Thicket/Northern Lights (which was good for skate on Saturday) but decided not to as it was the hint of a dusting of snow on top of icy stuff. Don't need another fall this season.

(Mark Lahtinen)

Conditions: Good for skate ski/fair for traditional.
The snow was groomed for skate ski but not for traditional. As a traditional skier I just followed alongside the skate ski trail or in some places made my own trail. Beautiful day out there --sunny and peaceful.

(Janice Bisch)

Conditions: Good, fast. White.
Fast conditions at Elm Creek on the manmade snow loop, despite the cold. With the HS ski season finished, there was plenty of fresh corduroy even in the evening. The classic tracks were deep, but not too hard or icy--they even ran all the way up the big hill on the valley loop, no washout. Didn't venture onto the Northern Lights loop as I was on my A-skis.

(Adrian Swanson)

Excellent as usual. There was appx an inch of new fluff; NL trail not groomed yet as of 2 PM today but good coverage.

(Ralph Schwartz)

Conditions: Valley has a firm deck with nice tracks. NL is not tracked, but fair snow coverage with an increasing amount of debris.
Not too many brave souls out there on what I thought was a pretty decent day, a little cool though. Slow going because I didn't change my wax from Friday, but still enjoyable. The surface of the wood bridge leading to the outer loops is more wood than snow. Sure could use some more of the white stuff!

(Brad Johnson)

The 5K loop is groomed, no tracks on Northern Lights but adequate snow cover. It is nice to ski on snow that has fallen from the sky.

(Ralph Schwartz)

Conditions: Natural snow surprisingly good, man-made snow not so good.
Skied most of the trails this evening. The Creek trail had essentially full coverage although it was thin going over the boardwalk at the start and the section from where it rejoins the Lake trail until the intersection with the Northern Lights. Eagle hadn't been rolled but was quite skiable. The Valley loop was a solid chunk of ice with any new snow blown away by the gale force winds today.

(Christi Nowak)

Conditions: Valley is firm to icy, Northern Lights is good.
The roughly 1" or so of new snow did a world of good for NL. It's packed but not tracked, with a few leaves and a bit more debris on the big hill. Care should be taken skating over the paved bike trail segment as there isn't a lot of snow there and you don't want your edges finding pavement. Valley skate deck is firm with scattered icy spots. Classic tracks looked to be in pretty good condition except in the more open areas subject to blowing snow.

(Brad Johnson)

Skied between 10:30 and 12:30. The entire 5K lit loop is groomed: the 2.5K man made snow loop has excellent tracks, skate deck was very firm; the rest of the 2.5K was fresh courderoy (and was regroomed at 11:30 while I was out there) but no tracks. I classiced and the untracked snow was fine, and fast. It was also out of the wind and was quite warm in the sun.

(Ralph Schwartz)

Conditions: very very good on the snowmaking loop.
Skied this morning for about an hour. On the soft side but just in the forgiving way. A really pleasant ski. Needless to say, just on the man-made.

(Luke Smith)