We tried...

We did a little bit of grooming and a lot of chainsawing.... the grooming being more of a method of transportation to the next down tree(s) than the main accomplishment of our outing. We took a lap of Jelm View and then started out counter clockwise on Porters. We were forced to turn around a little over half way around Porters when our second chainsaw battery ran out. We set tracks on the way back because why not. We'll head back up in the morning with charged batteries and keep working on the tree situation.

Weekend Grooming Plans

We plan to groom the trails Friday afternoon/evening. If there is substantial new snow we may groom or roll on Saturday or Sunday but that is not currently in our plans.

Don't trip over the track...

Ben was out there all day working on the trails! Jelm View, Porters, and the Rail Trail have all been groomed and classic tracks have been set (or at least attempted) on all of those trails! They are wide enough in most places to skate as well. After the large amount of snow we received last week, we've had some wind and warm weather. This has helped firm up the trails a bit more but has also opened up the usual bare spots on Jelm View and Porters. Where the coverage is good, it's amazing, and where it's not, it's pretty rocky. I did choose a particularly nice stretch of trail to take a picture...

We received very positive feedback about our preemptive post yesterday! Moving forward, we will try to post our planned grooming schedule ahead of time to help you all with planning. Most likely, our next grooming will be Friday evening.

Grooming tomorrow!

 We wanted to give folks a heads up that we plan to be out grooming tomorrow morning (as in Sunday Dec 14). We will continue to prioritize making Jelm View and Porters nice and may roll the rail trail if time allows. Hope to see you out there!

SO. MUCH. SNOW!

It has snowed so much in the last few days that we no longer need to (or can) measure it in inches. All you need to know that there is a lot of it! While we're super excited about the fact that there is this much snow, it has presented some challenges for grooming. We spent some time Saturday rolling Jelm View and Porters, but it was snowing so hard, you would barely notice. We returned this morning to blue skies and rolled Jelm View and Porters 2x each. They are still a little soft but are starting to set up quite nicely!

Let’s GOOOOOO!

 Got out and rolled the 8-10 inches of new snow this morning. We weren’t planning it, just planning to drop the machine but the snow was beautiful and we did a lap around the rail trail loop. Wish we had more time but it was nice when we left & still snowing!

Guess Who's Back

All the usual trails were rolled twice today. There were three to four inches of fresh now on top of all the snow we had neglected over the past month. The conditions were pretty soft but seemed to firm up nicely when skied later in the afternoon (on the good skis). There are the standard thin spots on Jelm View and Porters has a bare spot and a partially removed downed tree. Highly recommend getting out there and striding your heart out tomorrow.