Love Hyland. Thankful for the park crew who have provided a local place to ski, and afterward sit by the fire with a cocoa and a candy bar. Snow coverage/skiing is currently limited to the Star and Willow Loops (~2 km?). Lots of traffic on the trail as I classical skied for about an hour around 1:00 today—a couple of teams out burning up the trail as well as a few dozen adults and ten littles. The conditions were, in a word, sugar; moderately deep sugar over a slick, not yet icy, base, on both the classic tracks and the skate deck. The guns sit nearby, next to some bigger piles of man-made snow; hopefully we'll soon be enjoying fresher, drier white stuff and a few more km coverage.

(Jill Hansen)

First time at Hyland trails, lots of fun. Snow was good, could feel the ice below on the main hill. We will be back.

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(Phillip Wadsworth)

A nice morning for a ski. Tracks were well set as of 7am. Skin skis were searching for grip especially on the Willow hill. The left turn at the bottom of Star loop is pretty thin on snow seems like there is ice right under the surface. Still a great outing.

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(Scott Greymont)

Classic skied at 3:00 pm. Tracks existed on about 50% of the loop. As another skier reported, the downhill by the playground had three snowplow lanes which by 3:30 pm were starting to ice up and get a little dicey. Good news: maintenance crew was connecting up some of the snow guns on my last loop. Fingers crossed they get turned on tonight!

(Kathleen Miller)

At my 11:40 am start, the trail was in generally good condition, certainly better than yesterday. Still a fair amount of sugar buildup except on the chalet spur and the Willow downhill but it was drier and not as deep as yesterday except on the NW Star climb and the subsequent west to east Star climb on the south end of the loop. Skier traffic was pretty light. It was 33 degrees according to my car's thermometer. Would have been a nice ski except I forgot I'm now apparently suffereing from asthma and didn't use my inhaler ahead of time.

(Keith Carlson)

Mashed potatoes on the skate deck. But still fun and a beautiful day. Downslope from Star loop is chewed up and had mild chutes from snowplowing.

(Adam Bock)

Great conditions. The one mile loop as of this morning was in pristine condition. The classic tracks were firm and fast but not out of control. Plenty of kick on the hills. The skate deck was firm with a nice ribbon of corduroy. The bad news: the snow guns were nowhere to be found.

(Scott Greymont)

At my 10:50 am start, conditions for the trail other than the spur out from the chalet and the Willow downhill was rutted, moderately wet and deep sugar. In other words pretty bad. It was mid 30's and partly sunny. The high school teams were getting off the trail by about 11:15 leaving relatively light traffic remaining.

(Keith Carlson)

Classic skied Wednesday and to my surprise found a nice classic track. Tonight there was none. It seemed like skate skiers have taken over.

(Andy Wood)

Classic track was solid/good shape this morning. The skate deck was was fine on the north half but the south loop was turning into powder by 6:30 am.

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(Charles Barden)