Good to excellent conditions. We renovated and reset all the double track trails this morning/last night. Last night we renovated and combed all the skate trails. Personally I would use good skis on the above trails. All the singletrack classic trails were renovated, widened in key areas and reset on Wednesday. Some scattered organic matter and a few minor drifted areas from big wind Wednesday night gets B ski rating but again, personally I would have no problem using good skis. Twin Lakes singletrack groomed for fat biking yesterday afternoon and conditions are excellent, best of year. Skate trails open this weekend for fat biking as well. With cooler temps in place, a great weekend of winter play on tap!

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

Excellent conditions. No melting or icing. We renovated and reset all the double track trails this morning and renovated and combed all the skate trails. North Loup we worked on widening and packing down the edges. Grooming cleaned up the tracks from the organic forest matter that came down from yesterday's wind. The singletrack classic trails are skiing great, just the occasional twig leaf etc. I skied both the freshly groomed and trails groomed Sunday and was using my best skis but have the B ski rating for those more particular. We will be grooming most of the singletrack classic trails, widening and leveling than resetting track. Wednesday afternoon we plan on grooming for the DL Invite ski race on Sap Run, Mother North Star, Skaters Waltz and Suicide Hill. These trails will be closed during that time and also closed during races on Thursday. However, all other trails will be open for over 50km of skiing options. We also have the Twin Lakes singletrack in good shape for fat biking after multiple grooming passes.

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

It's been a phenomenal week of skiing. 16-18" new snow past 7 days, most recent snowfall yesterday with 1" of new snow. We have been grooming steady on the trail system, refreshing 40-60km daily. We also have been working on a 13km loop for fat biking that is slowly improving. The ice on the skate rink is some of the best in years. We will be touching up select trails throughout the weekend. With slightly cooler temps in place, should be a very nice weekend of winter play.

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

Snowfall past 24 hours 1-2", 48 hour storm total:13, snow depth in woods 20-30". 120km of grooming logged today between the groomers on entire 70km trail system. 55km tracked, 15km groomed skate only. We will be back out in the morning structuring the skate lanes and resetting select classic trail. We will also be setting a track on the side of North Loup for the first time this year. With all the recent heavy snow, there is slush on the lake crossings that should freeze down hard tonight with temps near single digits. Overall excellent skiing, winter wonderland conditions.

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

As of 2pm around 10" of new snow. The temp early this morning when we started grooming at 4:30am was 31.5 and has dropped a few degrees to 29 degrees as of 2pm. We have been focusing on 40km of trail today making multiple passes, etc. 25km double track classic, 15km skate only. We plan to be back out this afternoon touching up these 40km than again in the morning. Later tomorrow morning we will focus on the outer singletrack classic. The singletrack has been skied today, skied in nicely by the skiers.

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

As of 2pm around 3" of new snow. We groomed and reset all the double track trails this morning and set new track on singletrack trails Bullhead Bootleg and Lucky's Loype. We will be back out this afternoon and tomorrow morning to groom any additional new snow. The skate trails have been skied in nicely today on top of the recent grooming by the ski teams here for training camp.

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

3" of new snow overnight current temp is 19 degrees. 50km of trail groomed today. Early this morning we groomed all the double track trails resetting tracks and groomed the skate only trails. We will be back out grooming the skate trails this evening after the skiers are off the trail. Fat Bike Loops being groomed this afternoon. Tomorrow morning we will be grooming the outer singletrack trails and touching up select double track. The new snow mixing with the transformed snow in the base making for nice skiing under winter wonderland conditions.

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

100% open on 90km of trail. 50km tracked for classic only skiing, 15km groomed skate only and 5km designated as adventure skiing with skier made track. 20km of separate fat bike trail.
The trails survived the warm weather over the weekend just fine and skiing has been reported good to excellent. A few south facing areas not groomed today glazed and a couple bumpy/choppy spots on the outer trails the only negatives. Overall plenty of positives for great skiing. We groomed all the skate trails this morning than touched up Skaters Waltz again this evening. This morning Sap Run and Sukkerbusk were renovated and new tracks set. At dusk we groomed those trails again. Skiing was very good to excellent on trails groomed today. Tomorrow morning we plan to be renovating and resetting track on Loon Return and Twin Lakes trail. The fat bike trails are riding superb, best conditions of the year. We are open Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)

We skied at Maplelag Resort this past weekend. The trails where in great condition all around. It was a winter wonderland, and everyone had a wonderful time skiing along with top notch food. We even got to see a porcupine on the trail! Well done Maplelag family, thank you.

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(Charlie Rietschel)

100% open on 90km of trail. 50km tracked for classic only skiing, 15km groomed skate only and 5km designated as adventure skiing with skier made track. 20km of separate fat bike trail regroomed Wednesday evening. All double track trails reset and all skate trails Ginzu renovated and combed yesterday. Final grooming on singletrack outer trail, Roy's Run, reset this morning. Excellent early season conditions. Check board in main lodge for specifics.

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(Jay Richards, Maplelag Resort)