We groomed and tracked the orange trail Friday afternoon. This is most likely our last time until next season when we hope to have our outer loop cleared of storm damaged trees and open for skiing along with what was available this ski season bringing out total groomed trail back to 10K.

(Mark Hagen)

Skied the groomed trail Monday evening and it was good especially considering it's almost April! A little icy in some spots and one area where the trail was thinning due to high sun impact but still very passable.

(Kelly Anderson)

Groomed and set the track on the ski trail on the west side of University Rd. Some debris present so wouldn't recommend using your best skis. However, outdoor temperatures look downright balmy - with plenty of snow cover still present.

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(Chad Korby)

The orange trail is freshly groomed and tracked today. Get out while we still have a nice skiable trail. Conditions are great!

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(Mark Hagen)

Nicely groomed and tracked in the morning. Mid-afternoon skiing was a pleasure-track was clean (debris is often a problem here) and had good depth. Using blue kick wax, had excellent grip and fairly good glide on most of the yellow/orange/red trail, with some glazing on the tracks in the second open area of Otter Creek, which has a big southern exposure). Little outer loop not groomed.

(Joel Rosen)

Fresh snow! Packed and tracked the orange trail. We welcome you to come ski the Forestry Center on this beautiful day!

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(Mark Hagen)

We skied the orange/red side of the Cloquet Forestry Center around 11 am today. The tracks were really solid and intact, pole plants great too. All of us, skins, zero's and waxless had amazing glide today too. There were quite a few footprints along the sides of the tracks but they did not interfere with our skis thankfully.

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(Eve Graves)

We groomed and tracked the orange loop today. The snow is wet but clean and the tracks looked to have turned out okay.

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(Mark Hagen)

Tracks are still holding up pretty well on the Yellow/Orange/Red trail, with a slight increase in debris, but not enough to warrant switching to B skis. A few short stretches of shallow/washed out track are starting to show up, and the second (skiing counter-clockwise) open area with full south exposure by Otter Creek is glazed up. The short outer loop has not been machine tracked recently. The skied-in track is well packed, but tracks are too deep, resulting in boot scraping, especially on the portion west of the gate by University Rd. At mid-morning, violet kick wax covered with special violet was providing good grip in non-glazed areas. .

(Joel Rosen)

Track on the Yellow/Orange/Red trail was reasonably deep and had only minimal pine needle debris that was easily avoided. About 15% was glazed, with nearly untransformed snow on the remainder. By mid-morning, special violet kicker was still providing good grip, with a bit of technique adjustment needed on the glazed portions. The Blue trail had similar conditions, except for a small section on the south end where a maintenance snowmobile track intersects and it appeared some work had been done in this area, and the track was washed out and glazed for a few hundred yards.

(Joel Rosen)