Trails re-groomed early Friday afternoon after three inches of new dry snow during a series of 'clippers' this week. A trace of rain mixed in with the snow early Friday morning with the last clipper. Skating lane was lightly renovated and combed over an icy packed base and is firm with good edging. Classical tracks renovated, packed, and tracked with well defined firm tracks over an icy packed base.

(Gary Brekke)

Trails re-groomed early Wednesday morning after two inches of dry snow Monday and Tuesday with warmer temperatures over the weekend that transitioned the snow in sunny areas of the trail.  Skating lane was packed and combed over a ten inches of icy packed base and is firm with good edging. Classical tracks renovated, packed, and tracked with well defined firm tracks over ten inches of icy packed base.  25 inches of snow for the season.

(Gary Brekke)

Trails were re-groomed after several days of freezing fog leaving a trace to a half inch of ice crystals and hoar frost on trails. Skating lane was re-combed with a half inch edging on a firm base. Classical trail was renovated and tracks reset with well formed tracks on a firm base. Hoar frost continued to fall from trees this morning after more freezing fog overnight.

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(Gary Brekke)

Skating lane re-combed early this morning. Firm with half inch edging. The section by the 'rock-pile' where the snow blower clearing the paved rec trail left a drift was removed and re-groomed. Classical tracks are firm with sections of green ash seeds in the track.

(Gary Brekke)

Skating lane re-combed this morning after lots of recent ski and foot traffic. Classical tracks are fast with good grip after yesterday's blast of light rain. Note: Construction started today at the old intake structure replacing the wood deck with metal one. A section of the area where the ski trail crosses has been plowed to bare ground for truck / skid steer access - but a snow path was left to cross that area. Workers thought they'd be done today or tomorrow.

(Gary Brekke)

Trails re-groomed early Monday morning after a windless 'clipper' system Sunday dropped four inches of dry snow.  Skating lane was packed and combed over a ten inches of icy packed base and is firm with good edging. Classical tracks packed and tracked with well defined firm tracks over ten inches of icy packed base.

(Gary Brekke)

Trails re-groomed Saturday afternoon after two days of sub-zero ground blizzard conditions.  Skating lane was combed over a ten inches of icy packed base. Classical tracks packed and tracked with well defined tracks over ten inches of icy packed base.  (Light dry snow started coming down early Sunday that skiers should scrub out of the classical track.)

(Gary Brekke)

Skate trails are unpacked with accumulations and drifts resulting in about 3-4 inches of unpacked snow. The classic tracks are good in certain segments although not set in others.

(Victor Liang)

Skating lane re-packed and classical tracks re-set after 3 inches of new, dry snow Monday. 23 inches of snow for season.

(Gary Brekke)

Trails re-packed early this morning after 15 inches of new wet snow Tuesday through Thursday night and four inches of dry fine-grained snow Friday.  Skating lane has a soft four inch packed deck over ten inches of icy packed base. Classical tracks packed and tracked with well defined tracks over ten inches of icy packed base with firm bottoms, soft sides.  New dry light snow continued to fall and wind-blown snow filling the tracks since grooming.  Skiers were scrubbing out the tracks some but exposed areas were filling in.

(Gary Brekke)