Most of the low hanging branches have been cleared and a lot of the sticks have been tossed off the trails, but still areas with a bunch of smaller pine branches and other sticks. Overall good conditions for skate and classic. Note there will be school races at Arb on Wednesday Dec 28 from 10:00 to 4:00.

(Owen Baird)

All trails are open and were groomed and tracked Thursday morning. Watch out for low hanging branches and expect more branches and trees to come down with the windy weather. A number of branches and sticks still on the trails but good snow coverage everywhere.

(Owen Baird)

Skied all of the easier trails in the bottom half of the map, which were all groomed for skate and classic (Acorn, Pioneer, Ojibwe, Little Ben) with the exception of Polatch which didn't have classic track set yet but still very skiable. Thanks to the groomers who had a lot of downed branches to clear from the trails. Some needles and twigs remain. Sounded like they were still working on grooming the trails further from the visitor center (North Star and Johnson).

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(Jessica Thomas)

Two rounds of wet snow have brought down many trees and branches. Some trails have been rolled a couple times and are good for skiing, if a little lumpy yet. Grooming plans: Focus Friday will be clearing trees from remainder of trails, then working on more grooming.

(Owen Baird)

Most trails rolled after a half-inch of snow overnight. Best skiing was on trails in the woods where there is a 1 to 2-inch base of old crust, mainly Pioneer, Acorn, and parts of Rudy's trails. More open areas have just a thin layer of the new snow.

(Owen Baird)

North Star is groomed. Trails have had a lot of melt with the warm weather and it is definitely rock ski territory. Acorn and Ojibwe have some skate tracks but are not in good condition.

(Aura Goodman)