Trail Detail
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The famous Birkie trail. A great, rolling trail through the woods between Cable and Hayward. There is a short section south at Hwy OO that is lighted. There are snowmaking trails at the Start area.Trail Reports
2020-2021 season
Monday, November 30, 2020
Morning
posted: 2020-11-30 17:39:16
Firsthand: Classic [ Trails Open: Partial, ]
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Really nice 1.3k artificial snow figure 8 loop open at the Birkie start. Nice mix of terrain. Snow was packed and fast but easy to edge on. Rock solid tracks. The skating was super nice yesterday. Quite a difference from the churned up sugar snow at Elm Creek the other day. They were busy making more snow as I skied. Thanks groomers!
(Michael Gotzsche)
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Monday, November 30, 2020
Morning
posted: 2020-11-30 15:18:29
Firsthand: Freestyle [ Trails Open: Partial, ]
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Thursday, November 26, 2020
Morning
posted: 2020-11-26 13:04:25
Firsthand: Classic [ Trails Open: Partial, ]
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Snowmaking loop was in great shape - lots of happy skiers getting ready for Thanksgiving. 1.3K loop was getting a bit crowded at times and the one trail connection is a bit tricky but we all seemed to get the hang of it. Look forward to skiing more trails in the coming weeks. Like a big skiing playground. Thank You Birkie crew and all the donations that made the snowmaking possible at Telemark.
(George Larson)
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Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Morning
posted: 2020-11-25 08:10:17
Grooming Scheduling [ Trails Open: Partial, ]
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It is official, the first two loops up at Birkie Trail Head will open Thanksgiving. Together the loops are approx. 1.3km. Birkie "All Access" ski pass required. Reminder: Fri-Sun is Turkey Birkie Skiing (details on website). Next week as it cools down we will again resume making snow, going much quicker now that the big areas a complete. Happy Thanksgiving from the Birkie Trail crew!
(Kurt Proctor, American Birkebeiner)
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Morning
posted: 2020-11-17 20:05:47
Firsthand: Classic [
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We skied south of Boedeker on both the Skate trail and the Classic trail. Skied all the way to Double OO. 4" of snow and we never hit any rocks. It was 11 degrees when we started and that felt a little chilly. Norwegian grooming (made our own tracks). Big change is there has been logging near kilometer 31 on the Classic trail. About a kilometer of trail has had the east side logged off of it. There was also a small section of the skate trail near where the snowmobile trial crosses near km 31 that has also had some logging - I'd say about 100 meters or so.
(Dan Murphy)
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Morning
posted: 2020-11-17 15:12:00
Firsthand: Classic [
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Thursday, November 12, 2020
Afternoon
posted: 2020-11-12 16:03:38
Firsthand: Classic [ Trails: Closed, ]
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Started from Birkie trailhead and skied on the powerline section for a while. The trail is just barely covered with snow and the skiing is pretty slow - definitely something that only the fanatics will enjoy. Regardless, I got a few k's in and enjoyed my time! I would recommend classic skiing instead of skate as there's not much of a snow base to push off from. Also, use kickwax that is on the colder side. I used warm stuff and was icing up really bad. They had the snow guns going when I was there, so it looks like they'll have the loop groomed sometime soon!
(Andrew Einspanier)
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Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Morning
posted: 2020-11-11 09:00:35
Firsthand: Classic [
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About 2-3 inches of fresh snow on top of an ice layer provided a fun morning ski. I skied about 10km out and back on the trail south of OO. I hit one rock that caused me to fall hard. But that was the only rock I hit. I used old fish scale skis and they worked well unless I skied over a puddle and then the would ice up.
(David Nelson, Skinnyski.com Race Team)
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Monday, October 26, 2020
Morning
posted: 2020-10-26 06:22:25
Observation [ Trails: Closed ]
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