Yippee for Spring skate skiing. All trails are nearly perfect, firm and fast even as temperatures warm up. We're into the portage season on the Red Trail, two south hills are bare at the top but easily seen and no problems at all.

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(Burgess Eberhardt)

Another amazing day on Tilson Creek trails. Although the weather hits well above thaw every day, the trails are firm and fast day after day. Probably a foot of solid base. We are likely done grooming but far from done skiing.

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(Burgess Eberhardt)

Today we used the drag and Ginzu to refresh all the skate lanes, including the Big Bad Blue Hill trail. Skating is perfect, weather is perfect. The tracks are OK if icy. We will not likely do anything more with them this season.

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(Burgess Eberhardt)

After the thaw and re-freeze on Sunday, we used the drag running before the Ginzu over all the skate lanes today. That worked well. It's great to be out in such nice weather! We also pulled two drags over and over the BigBad Blue Hill trail, and you can if you are brave skate that now - it's still bumpy and I saw a couple of rocks on the ridges, but it is skiable. One more snow fall and that will be just fine. Spring skiing is the best!

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(Burgess Eberhardt)

Yesterday we finally got the Big Bad Blue Hill trail packed with sleds. It's still too deep there to ski but ok now for snowshoes. This morning I ran the Ginzu on the Green and up the first big hill to cover yesterday's work. Another beautiful day! This time of year, the skating is great before noon but the trails get too soft after that - please don't leave deep ruts.

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(Burgess Eberhardt)

We rolled ahead and followed with the Ginzu on the Blue Trail this morning. Looks very nice. I believe it will take a day or so to set up since we had so much new snow to process.

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(Burgess Eberhardt)

We received close to a foot of snow on the Tilson Creek Ski Trail on Sunday, and packed and rolled on Monday. This morning I groomed and tracked all trails but the Blue. The snow will be soft for a day but should firm up nicely. I posted the "do not ski on soft snow" sign when I finished- it's that time of year. Sunny and +20, warming up to 30.

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(Burgess Eberhardt)

After 8 inches of new snow the trail was freshly groomed and tracks set. The snow was a little slow with new snow and a temperature around 10 above. Great day for a ski.

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(David Kettula)

Cold and very sunny this morning. We were able to set nice tracks and good corduroy after last nights trail rolling on close to a foot of new snow. All trails look very nice and should set up well. No more snow please, we are all set.

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(Burgess Eberhardt)

In preparation for Tuesday's epic snowstorm we rolled the skate lane on all trails. The tracks are still fine if somewhat wind blown. We'll reset tracks on Wednesday. And we put up all the new intersection signs, plus a big beauty at the trailhead.

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(Burgess Eberhardt)