Yes, you read that right: skate skiing! The Wagoner Trail has just opened a 10km round trip skate trail and it is beautiful. We are going to be grooming it for skating for the rest of the season and next year as we seek feedback from skiers as to whether this is worth adding to our trail system permanently. The trail is on a segment of Prospector ATV trail that traverses beautiful rolling and sometimes hilly large pine and mixed forest. We don't have the perfect groomer for skate trails, but what we have has made a very smooth and great skate deck (in these current cold conditions). Start at the South (main) parking lot trailhead. Classic trails all were groomed yesterday and are looking good - there was about 1/2" additional snow since then, but it is light and fluffy and easily skied.

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(Mary Shedd, Howard Wagoner Trails Club)

About 4 inches of new snow since last grooming. No wind drifts. People have been out and some of the tracks are packed.

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(Aaron Kania)

Great conditions, tracks are firmed up. Pretty quiet out there on Super Bowl Sunday but even at that a couple other skiers out there for good conversation.

(Aaron Kania)

Trails were freshly groomed today for classic skiing. It was 8 below and perfect for a ski! Skied with green kick wax. We did quite a few of the loops and they are in fantastic condition.

(Ida Rukavina)

Trails fully groomed late afternoon/early evening. Groomer Terry says snow was just perfect for setting good tracks. They are soft now, but should freeze up overnight.

(Mary Shedd, Howard Wagoner Trails Club)

Light dusting of fluff on top of well-set tracks made for soft, quiet, smooth, and fast skiing today. Stiff wind in the treetops, but only light breeze on the trails. There are minor amounts of wind-blown debris - nothing that slows one down.

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(Mary Shedd, Howard Wagoner Trails Club)

Trail conditions don't get much better than this. Terry groomed Thursday and tracks are well set, frozen, and now mostly free of the wind-driven debris that had been on trails earlier this week.

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(Mary Shedd, Howard Wagoner Trails Club)

Trails were groomed last night and are great condition. Skiing today was great - though I wasn’t sure it would be because of the howling wind and chill temps. The high winds today indeed had been shaking the treetops and lightly sprinkling the trails with a potpourri of needles, twigs, cones, lichens, twiglets, and snow dust, but not enough to really drag at your skis or slow you down. Best of all, down on trails, there was barely a breeze thanks to great sheltering pines and spruce of woods. It is snowing right now, so some of that debris may be lightly covered by tomorrow.

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(Mary Shedd, Howard Wagoner Trails Club)

We skied the whole trail system Thursday afternoon just as the groomer was finishing. Ideal snow and tracks. Get out and enjoy the Towering pines and rolling hills of this gem. You won't be disappointed.

(Ron Svatos)

New snow accumulation - so we have groomed all segments of our classic trail system again tonight. Snow is light, cold, giving good glide.

(Mary Shedd, Howard Wagoner Trails Club)