Good snow coverage, completely ruined by unauthorized users walking on the trail. These are supposed to be ski only trails with a Ramsey County ski pass required for use in the winter. There is maybe 2-3 inches of hard packed snow groomed and packed down quite firmly (too firm for skis to sink through to the ground). The trails were groomed at one point, but are now super bumpy due to holes from foot traffic. The coverage is pretty good, but there were several spots where a boot hole caused a small hole of pavement to show underneath the snow. This is easily avoidable since the snow is frozen hard enough where skis should easily glide right over those small holes without touching the pavement (or can easily ski around them.) Also, a few spots had leaves on the course and a few small sections of the woods had a little dirty showing. If you're worried about ski damage by leaves etc, then I'd not use your best pair, but most easily avoided. There are classic tracks, but they mostly looked user made and were a bit washed out from foot prints or skis sliding out on uneven snow. The trail was a bit smoother for most of the grass trail portions.

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(Megan Evans)