Rail Trail Tracks!

 Today we groomed from the CP trail head to the rail trail and around the 5 km loop that encompasses some portions of the road. We have lovingly dubbed this Rachel’s O. In total the route from CP trail head, around the loop and back is just shy of 15 km. We skied this route right after grooming it and it skied like a dream. We classiced but the route will be good for skate too, especially once it firms up! **Please remember that the road portion of Rachel’s O is open to snowmobile so we kindly share this part of the route with them.

We also regroomed Jelm View for classic. It has two thin spots but is very firm now and getting quite a bit of traffic.

There were so many skiers on the trails from the time we began grooming until the time we finished skiing. It was wonderful to see so many people enjoying it. 

Christi and Rachel will be heading to Soldier Hallow to coach the team at US Nats but we will try to get one of our other groomers up there next weekend.

Snow Globe

Beautiful day on the trails! 

Another 2+inches of snow was added overnight. Unfortunately it was accompanied by wind. 

We packed Porter Loop for skate and it is 75% beautiful skiing and 25% wind blown, with drifts and thin spots.

Jelm View was packed for classic, one pass but no tracks set yet. 

The trails start being really good just across the dam, so don’t be fooled by the bare ground getting there. The best path is to go directly out past the Boy Scout camp  

We’ll see you out there!

Winter Wonderland!

 What a beautiful Christmas present! 4-5 inches of fresh snow and still snowing at 4pm  

We packed Jelm View one  pass for classic and twice around Porter Loop. Yes, you can skate around Porter Loop  

A very few thin spots, mostly very good skiing. 

Good skiing in a world without snow!

 This is a little late as a blog post but we packed Porter loop on Wednesday afternoon and then skied. It was more than competent for skating and classic. The UW Team did a couple loops to make it good and firm!

There is also an old set track around Jelm View, set on Sunday afternoon.

The snow up there is much better than you would guess with what's happening in town.

We'll see you out there!

Rail Trail Bike path bliss

 On Friday night, Nathan (our head groomer) taught our Freshman (Austin) how to groom and they packed Jelm View, Porter loop and the bike path. On Saturday we were able to have a time trial on the rail trail bike path loop! 

Conditions are not fit for high end race skis but lower level training skis are perfect!