The park is in great shape for Wolf Tracks Rendezvous this Saturday. All systems go, excellent snow depth and grooming throughout the park. Moderate temps going into Saturday morning.

(Christie Terkelson)

Very good conditions for skating and solid track for striding. Snow is squeaky and somewhat slow due to the cold temps (around 0 today).

(Brian Ciske)

Classic skied today for almost 4 hours. Tracks were set on just about everything we wanted to ski, and skate deck was firm and fast. Regardless of the new snow that fell during the day and the lower temps, skiing was great. We decided to get out of the wind and did single tracks and explored many areas not seen before. It's hard to enjoy in cold and wind, but that's what we did. (VR30 did the trick).

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(Dan Leider)

Skied Cedar creek part of Big pine and Side kick today. These trails are single track classic only. They were groomed for the first time this year. It was a very nice ski with good tracks and no icy patches or bare spots. Also skied Tornado alley and XC express to connect the single track trails. The tracks are holding up nicely and the dusting of snow helped with the kick today. Skate decks looked good also.

(Dennis Blow)

The fresh PistenBully groomed trails were fantastic today...deep fast tracks and beautiful corduroy! Trails are starting to level out and any thin spots and debris are slowing disappearing. It's close to being good ski conditions on most of the skate decks.

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(Erin Blow)

The groomed trails were very fast but still good edging. It was wonderful at 15 degrees and 4mph wind.
With 1" new snow on a 5-7" base, MWP should continue be nice skiing for the days ahead.

(Don Howell)

Skied to Lake Maria on corduroy groomed trails that was still good skiing despite the 12 degree temperature. The trail is very scenic and fun variable terrain.

(Don Howell)

By far the best ski conditions this season. 4" of new snow groomed on a 4" base made for great glide with good edging and no ice. We skied the Wolf tracks trail which was very enjoyable.

(Don Howell)

After a major meltdown, leaving some brown here and there, and just a few icy patches, the grooming crew worked magic. While the number of trails were reduced, the open ones were great fun and offered "Hero snow"; transitioned (Many times) tumbled, tilled, and reduced to fast white ice crystals, a pleasingly crunchy corduroy. This was the occasional skate for me, but conditions made my recovering V2 the gear of choice as I breezily muscled my way around the Cookie Loop. Best spring skiing in January I've ever experienced.

(Ken Schoville)

River Run is one of my favorites and it was groomed on Friday so I decided to give it a try. I usually skate it but I opted to classic ski it today. I'm afraid that probably was not a good choice. There were many areas with extensive forest debris on the trail and in the track. With the warm temps, it was slow going and control on the hills was less than optimal. Overall, classic ski conditions were fair at best. I do believe I would have fared better on my skate skis. That being said, the scenery was still good,.

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(Jim Gantz)