PB groomed and tracked man-made snow on lower trails tonight when temps dropped from 45 to below freezing. Upper trails were not groomed so natural snow skate deck and tracks are icy fast after today's melt down and refreeze. Good base, no bare spots yet.

(Catherine McLynn)

Groomed all trails and set classic track. Very good conditions until next warm-up and freeze. Get out and ski!

(Darren Neuman)

1.5" new snow and about 10-11" on the ground. Probably about a 6" base on the natural snow trails. Groomed both the Grant-In-Aid Trails and the biathlon trails with snowmobile/Ginzu. Set tracks on natural snow areas where the base was a bit softer. In other areas, tracks were still okay from the recent grooming last week. Get out and enjoy the trails!

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(Bob Conzemius)

All trails except otter slide and exit ramp have been groomed. Tracks set on lower trails and most of the upper trails. Lower trails were pb groomed this evening and upper trails were groomed this morning. Decks is fast and tracks are very nice with a few thin spots on the upper trails.

(Derek Youngren)

Groomed skate deck on all trails except Otter Slide, Back Track, Exit Ramp. Grooming plans: Classic track grooming is planned for Saturday.

(Darren Neuman)

Rolled all trails with natural snow with feather board. Skate deck is pretty good. Tracks okay. Grooming plans: Will try to freshen tracks on machine snow trails this week.

(Darren Neuman)

After a long weekend of hosting races here at Mount Itasca, I was finally able to get back out and set new tracks. All of the lower trails have tracks, as well as Service Road, Bittersweet, Black Widow, Main Street, and Mag View. Grooming plans: We will try and get out in the next day or so and work the most recent snow into the skate deck, but it is very skiable as it is. Upper trails have great tracks.

(Derek Youngren)

2" new snow, groomed the whole system and set tracks except on upper biathlon trails and connecting to Grant-in-Aid. Grant-In-Aid trails are packed and tracked. CXC races this Saturday and Sunday. Biathlon side will be closed for races, but Grant-In-Aid side will have mostly open trails.

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(Bob Conzemius)

Machine snow groomed immaculately by Bob with Pisten Bully with classic tracks set. Natural snow groomed flat to break up ice. Bottom of Main Street and Exit Ramp not groomed. Recommend avoiding Exit Ramp due to ice and thin snow.

(Darren Neuman)

Packed about an inch or so new snow. Set tracks over about half the trails and let old tracks be on the other half. Snow cover still isn't particularly deep, so we're trying to avoid bringing up any dirt or leaves on trails that are covered only by natural snow. Conditions are generally very good with the new snow, but in a decreasing number of spots, there could be an occasional dirt spot in the tracks, and there is one rock on Exit Ramp just east of the quarry in the middle of the trail. That's the only reason I put B skis instead of good skis.

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(Bob Conzemius)