I had to ski it after work. Classic skied 29 km in 1 hour 45 minutes. Skied double Anchor, Northern Lights, Buzz loops. Conditions are the best I've seen this season! Excellent! Tracks are deep, firm, kick is great, glide is great, hill climbs are pleasant in the tracks or herringboning. The skate deck is firm, easy to edge on and the glide is great. And the scenery is a frosted wonderland. This is going to be an epic xc skiing weekend at Ashwabay! Don't miss out. Thank you groomers!

(Kevin Grand)

Tracks and skate are in great shape on Abbey Road, Seagull, Anchor Power line to Anchor Cut Off, Northern Lights, The Buzz. All trail segments are skiable but classic only trails have only been through with the roller and Jolly Long has just one pass with the flat drag.

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(Ashley Georgeson)

Classic skied alot of km this morning. 30 to 40 km, not sure exactly how much, linked together the hill climbs differently and it felt great. Took advantage of the nice weather and phenomenal conditions! Tracks were still firm, ample kick, glide was fast as anything I've skied. Hill climbs were awesome, kickable, up hill glide and steady paced herringboning with no slippage. Skate deck was firm and held an edge great. Downhills were fast in and out of the track and controlled. Double poling was 70% of my ski today. Thank you groomers. A strong Birkie is in the making with your consistency thus far this season!

(Kevin Grand)

Great day at Mt. Ashwabay! Amy and I skated about 15K using a combination of Abbey Road, Northern Lights, Skid Road, and Jolly Long. Excellent conditions on the skate deck throughout. Classic track is fast and well-set.

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(Rick Cochrane)

Classic skied 40 something K today. Mixed up the trails from the usual loops. Snow was super fast. Tracks were firm, kick was good with skins, double poling was basically 70% of the technique today. Hill climbs were kickable, or herringboning was doable running up the hills because of the fresh skate deck grooming. Downhills were fast and controlled in the tracks and on the skate deck. I felt like I got up to 35 mph on a few in the tracks. Just a phenomenal ski!! Thank you groomers!

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(Kevin Grand)

Seagull and Anchor retracked and skate lanes groomed this evening. Jolly Skate lanes were cleaned up last night.

(Ashley Georgeson)

Skated Abbey Road, Northern Lights, Buzz, Seagull. Conditions were about perfect, a dusting of very fast snow on top of a firm base. Classic tracks were amazingly fast. Beautiful day out there!

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(Paul Belknap)

Skied the Jolly long loop and then Northern Lights. There was a bit of fresh snow on top of groomed (slightly crusty from melting on Friday). It was fast and great!

(Steve Smith)

Amy and I skied a bunch of the trails at Mt. Ashwabay, overall the conditions were great! We didn't do any of the classic-only trails, but they looked really good. Abbey Road, Northern Lights, and Buzz all had good tracks, and the skate deck looked amazing - might return in a couple days to skate :) Perfect Toko Red day.

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(Rick Cochrane)

Skied most of the classic only trails today, and conditions were great, nice and firm with good kick, and very fast. Kick wax changed rapidly as the trails got more skied in and it warmed up.

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(Paul Belknap)