Beautiful fresh deep snow on trail and covering trees after the blizzard! Poles not getting much purchase as it is quite soft. Snow was getting sticky at about 21 deg Fahrenheit. The maintenance crew was out working hard to get the trees cleared and setting track Friday morning. I was the 2nd skier and turned around after catching up to the crew on Ryan's loop. Dorothy's loop is completely groomed. They said to expect 7k groomed by the end of today. Was pure joy to be out and skiing this beautiful trail today. Many thanks to the maintenance crew!

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(Molly Shoberg)

The trails had been groomed today up until the 4K cutoff. After that, the trails had been skied in pretty nicely. The tracks are shallow but in good shape.

(Elizabeth Becker)

Mark Helmer, Assistant Chief of Trails, asked me to report that he groomed trail Friday. Also, trail will be closed to public from 3 pm Monday (Jan 19) to 3 pm Tuesday (Jan 20) for a high school race,.

(John Thomas)

We classic skied Korkki today. When we got there it was 34, when we left 37. The 4k was freshly groomed. We skied 5k. All the corners were skied out. A couple of downhills were missing tracks, one of them had sticks sticking up and a tad bit of icy looking stuff. The rest of the trail was all snow, no ice, minimal debris and huge thank you to the groomer!!

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(Eve Graves)

Conditions are great at Korkki (classic only). Excellent coverage, no ice, pretty fast, and nice tracks. The only spots where the tracks are washed out are the usual trouble spots on the downhills. I skied the 6k loop and have a great time. All trails are open including the difficult side loops on the return but the Iso Maki is still closed. A great warming building at the end. They are not part of the MN Ski Pass so consider becoming a member or dropping some cash in the box at the trailhead.

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(Ben Fornear)

Korkki is in great shape! A nice deep track on all trails. Only Iso Maki is off limits. The Assistant Chief of Trails was just heading out to put a fresh track down on a bit of new snow. A beautiful place to ski!

(John Pokrzywinski)

Update from Mark Helmer: Craig and I groomed today. We have cut track on everything except Iso Maki and the lower roller coaster. One more snowfall of any substance and we will have the entire system open. But for now it is skiable. My daughter said bring your B skis and soft knees. She said it is good early skiing. The parking lot is very slippery so folks should use great caution.

(Dave Johnson)

Conditions were decent. There are a few spots with sticks, grass, or parts of a bridge poking through, hence the B skis rating. The grooming was excellent, and it was really fun to be out on the single track through the woods. Trails are open up to the 6K cutoff as well as one small section lower down.

(Adam Schwartz-Lowe)

Great ski. Just groomed this morning... But Bryan's loop closed for now - still cutting trees that are across the trail and some rough patches. I think it needs a bit more snow. Can cut over at 5k cutoff or Elizabeth's way for some great skiing.

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(Greg Sumner)

Actually pretty good skiing overall, great fresh tracks set. A few shallow spots. Most notably, a few of the valleys between hits have a bit of ice and there is one area early on where you have to take off the skis and walk across logs because the stream hasn't frozen.

(Brandon Drazich)