Great day of skiing at Mirror Lake Park. Skated on a flat smooth deck with ample loose snow over a firm icy base. No problem with control on downhills. Skated on pioneer, Ishnala, Hastings, and Fern Dell loops. On Fern dell the entire skate deck had been groomed along with new deep tracks. The other loops I skied had new tracks but approximately 1/2 of the width of the skating deck was groomed, while the remaining width had one inch of ungroomed snow. This did not seem to affect skating. The only concern was some surface litter of leaf and pine cone needles from the yesterdays wind post-grooming. My wife classic skied and occasionally some leaves stuck to her kick wax.

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(Ron Fabrizius)

I stopped by Mirror Lake today and skied 22 km freestyle getting ready for Saturday's 50km Birkie skate. The skate deck was a bit soft but overall conditions I would say were good to very good. There is plenty of snow on all the downhills making them fun to ski.

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(Jim Gantz)

Skied this afternoon with KJ. Trails were groomed. Track was set by groomer on Friday but reset by skiers today. Great base, soft conditions and they were planning on grooming Monday.

(Jimmie Nahas II)

Classic skied between 9am-11am Sunday on Fern Dell and Turtleville Trail. It was snowing fluffy snow as we skied. Could not tell if the groomer had been through lately. We found the classic track in good condition. We had a very enjoyable day of skiing.

(Sally Benson)

Skied Mirror Lake Hastings and Homestead Loops Saturday afternoon. Good, really good, in fact. They groomed after the melt/refreeze, then got 1" plus of powder on top. Deep, firm tracks. Hard wax. Skate lane was firm, very nice, too. Best conditions I've seen south of the UP this year.

(Pete Anderson)

First time there. Groomed yesterday. Lot of skiers today. Tracks were deep, plenty of leaves to slow things down. The heavily skied trails were getting beat up. The trails near the camp sites were the most fun, much less traffic.

(Denny Blum)

Mirror Lake survived yesterday's warmup and is in good condition. It helped that about 1/2 inch of snow fell last night. I classic skied Pioneer, Ishnala, and all the Northwest loops. The classic tracks were deep with the new snow skied in by the skiers making a good layer of powder snow in the tracks. Rarely, there was an icy spot noted on the downhill, especially if this section faced the sun. I did not skate, but the skate deck appeared firm and level, and following grooming of the new snow had a layer of powder snow on the surface. Kudos to groomers for doing an excellent job of packing and grooming these trails!

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(Ron Fabrizius)

Skied Ferndell Turtleville Hastings and Ishnala loop before sunrise. Skating was awesome! with fresh 1" snow on top of firm crusty base. fast but very controllable. Best ski at ML this season. Get out and enjoy before the next big snow!

(Dan Dudley)

All of the parks ski trails were packed on and combed on Friday after the last ice/snow fall. Tracks were laid on Fern Dell but proved problematic so nothing else tracked. Skated most of the trails today on one inch of new snow with another inch falling while we skied. Skating was very good and most enjoyable. Enough new snow has fallen for more grooming and hopefully better classic tracks.

(Paul Wagener)

Ferndale, Turtleback, and Hastings are all fully covered, with hard deck and fast. A classic skier said almost all had shallow track. I did not try woods/hills trails - park lists them as ungroomed - but they look covered from the road.

(Dave Minden)