First time skiing here while visiting Brainerd area. Fantastic and fast skiing conditions and trails tonight skiing. Loved the trails. I skated, but classic tracks were in very good shape too. Great skiing below the lights or off on the ‘dark’ trails with a headlamp. Definitely hope to get back here to ski again. Thank you Brainerd Nordic Ski Club for an epically good ski night!

(Cordell Manz)

Classic tracks are well skied-in old snow while the skate lane is more recently groomed well-packed old snow. About 20 inches of snow in the woods, top 6 inches is untransformed old snow and the rest is transformed. Trails have about 11 inches of snow, the top 4 inches is well packed old snow and the rest is a solid transformed base. Grooming plan is to groom the skate lanes Monday and then probably not groom again until Saturday in preparation for the Lumberjack Jaunt race on Sunday, February 2.

(Owen Baird)

Skate lane was groomed Friday morning after some snow Thursday and Thursday night. Tracks were set a couple of days ago and the new snow was skied-in on all the trails I skied on today.

(Owen Baird)

Kudos to the groomers and keepers of the trail! Very enjoyable to ski. Trails are in great shape. Skate deck was firm everywhere. Skied a lot of untracked freshly groomed trails. A little leafy in spots, no complaints.

(Phil Nicolas)

Tracks set on Saturday were well skied-in and getting firmer by the afternoon. Skate deck was re-groomed Sunday morning and was a little soft at first but by the evening was much better. Just a few oak leaves in some sections of the tracks.

(Owen Baird)

A couple dustings of new snow the last two days covered the fairly hard old snow surface and tree debris and made for nicer skiing. Solids classic tracks, but a lot of oak leaves in some sections. Plenty of snow to use good skis, just issues with oak leaves and jack pine needles.

(Owen Baird)

Recently groomed and tracked. The trails were improved from last Wednesday with fewer leaves and more solid tracks. Good conditions. Where Northstar parallels the Paul Bunyan Trail there used to be major damage to track due to deer walking all over the trail - must have been hundreds of them! The new grooming helped that out quite a bit, much improved.

(Dan Fundingsland)

Nice skiing on about one inch of new snow over a hard, but not icy, transformed base. Classic tracks were reset Monday morning before much of the new snow fell, so the new snow covered the transformed base allowing hard wax to work well, no need for klister. Some areas of soft poling on the classic track. Some oak leaves and other tree debris but not too bad.

(Owen Baird)

A dusting of new wet snow moderated the icing effects of some rain Wednesday night and covered some of the oak leaves and tree debris. Grooming Friday will focus on preparing for school races to be held Saturday from 10 to 2.

(Owen Baird)

Tracks were reset Friday so there were not many leaves in them. Tracks were well skied-in but not glazed or too hard yet. Skate lane in good condition too. Deer have been digging down through the snow for acorns in a few areas, usually off the groomed trail, but they did take the track out in one spot.

(Owen Baird)