A gorgeous day on the trails with plenty of sunshine. Fresh tracks set among others on Mother North Star, Sap Run, and North Loop. Fast skiing even with simple fish scale skis. Total of 22.8K including Roy’s Run.

(Istvan Gombocz)

Light fluffy snow 4 out of the last 5 days has accumulated to around 3". Welcomed breaks of sunshine in between allowing the brilliant mid February sun to light up the forest. We have been grooming daily on the trails, including a special full moon groom in the middle of the night Sunday night keeping the trails in tip top shape. Select grooming planned the rest of the week will bring the entire trail system regroomed before the Presidents weekend. Fat bike trails continue to be the best riding we have ever seen. The end of the ski season is fast approaching, contact us for special end of season deals mentioning code "skinnyski73".

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

Excellent conditions. 1" of dense new snow today. We groomed most of the trail system today while it was snowing. We renovated the frozen granulated base, mixing the transformed snow with the freshly fallen snow. The trails groomed up very nice and a late night ski with Jonell found lovely conditions. The very light dusting of snow on top of the recently groomed skied very nice. Some of the trails groomed earlier in the day a bit slower skier with the light dusting on tap including the skate trails. Fat bike trails have been phenomenal this week, grooming on tap for Friday morning. Friday evening we will renovate and comb out the skate trails and touch up any classic trails needing clean up. Great weekend of Nordic on tap!

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

Today skied Sukkerbusk, the North Loup, and Roy’s Run. Used Fischer Zero skis, and walked up all but the steepest inclines. The trails are in excellent shape! Snow in abundance. On a side note, we also were able to stay for some great tunes performed by local musician Mike Gilson in the lodge, followed by a delicious lodge meal of brisket, scalloped potatoes, salad, and Russian Creme for dessert. Excellent day to enjoy (and appreciate) Maplelag’s hospitality and the many km’s of professionally groomed trails there.

(Glenn Gifford)

Fantastic conditions. Been an incredible week of skiing, fat biking and snowshoeing. Daily grooming continues including an entire re-groom of the entire trail system on 85km of trail including both singletrack fat bike loops. We have 30km of groomed riding options for fat biking. 65km of skiing on 15km skate groomed, 55km tracked with singletrack only, double track only and 5km of skate and classic. Frost continues to provide snow glob conditions with a half inch or so falling to the deck each day. Touch up grooming on through the weekend as needed. Note: We will be grooming on the Section courses Sunday afternoon and evening. Trails for those races will be closed Sunday afternoon, Monday morning and Tuesday for the Section races. There will be over 60km of other trails open for skiing and the Twin Lakes singletrack will be open on Tuesday for fat biking. Wednesday everything open again.

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

Skied most classic trails over a long weekend and all trails were in excellent condition--temps in the low to mid 20's with plenty of snow. The cookies and the food were the usual excellent. Everything came together to make for a great weekend of skiing.

(Tran Alfrey)

Plenty of snow at Maplelag. I classic skied the North Loup, using Zero skis, and they worked very well. The Maplelag trails are in great shape.

(Glenn Gifford)

Around the clock grooming on the ski and fat bike trails have the trails in great shape for weekend winter play. Has been a awesome week of skiing and grooming. Temps have stayed below freezing all week. We have been grooming at night the past few days with the high humidity to allow the trails to set up as much as possible. There are still some soft spots, in particular the drifted areas which are 3-4 feet deep of base but the damp air making for silky like skiing. Skate trails being groomed again this evening, touch up grooming as needed tomorrow evening.

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

Trails are starting to take shape after 14" of snow the past week. Grooming up very nice, still a bit soft but everyone has been happy with the conditions. It took a while to groom out the plethora of singletrack trails with the large drifts encountered in areas. We will continue daily grooming this week, cleaning up all trails and paying a bit more attention to the Section courses that are now open for inspection. The fat bike trail still needs some grooming and hopefully by end of week the riding improves.

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

I classic skied mid-morning to early afternoon. The trails were in excellent condition. A blue wax day! Jay has done a phenomenal job with the amount of snow Maplelag has received over the past several days. The pic attached is from the Twin Lakes Trail.

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(Tom Dooher)