Excellent day and beautifully groomed trails and cozy warm up by the wood burning stove in the log cabin. Coffee and viewing the amazing photography in Munising tops the day.

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(Maureen Ronquist)

We now have all trails open and groomed for both skate and classic. The last two to be opened were the last segment of G and Z. They are still a little uneven in spots but overall quite good. The system is shaping up nicely with good classic tracks throughout and most trails have a nice firm skate deck with plenty of width. The scenery with all the snow covered trees is stunningly beautiful as well.

(Dan Rabine)

We are making good progress getting segments open daily. We have had an unprecedented amount of trees,limbs and debris fall on our trail system during the Thanksgiving storm and then another storm hit the following Sunday. We are now grooming 80% of our trail system and things are shaping up nicely. The woods are beautiful and the Lodge is now open and cozy warm.

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(Dan Rabine)

Wednesdays snowstorm wreaked havoc on our trail system. Trees and branches are down all over, so clearing trails is a slow process. We were able to set track on A. We also cleared D. Grooming plans: Dave will groom D Saturday morning. The Lodge will be open with a fire going. The scenery is great and we have a lot of snow. We plan to work on another loop in the morning. Big thanks to Howie for coming up from Esky today with his chainsaw.

(John Gierke)

Good skating with trails recently combed with Ginzu. Debris negligible and deck good with some camel humping down the middle in place but not bad. Tracks were set on some trails and on others 2" of new snow was skied down. NMU's Nordic Teams were there with coach Sten getting in some Ks too. Great day.

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(Gregory Roll)

Grooming has made head-way with the twenty plus inches of snow. Deck is flatter and setting up nicely. Great ski with good skis. Even firm, deep tracks were set.

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(Gregory Roll)

While the trails were rolled out, you had to stay on the camel's back or fall into the classic tracks on either side. Still decent and fun.

(Gregory Roll)