Open at 9 am. An inch and a half of new snow. The temperature at 8 am is 28º, the forecast high today is 39º, with a mix of precipitation.

The photo above is from yesterday. So the new snow is on top of this base.

Let’s talk about the base. It starts out the morning as frozen granular. As the temperature warms up, it turns to loose granular. For example only, everyday is different, yesterday morning until about 9 am it was really hard and fast. By 9:10 am, when the temperature was up to 35º it had loosened up enough to be fast, loose granular and very skiable. By 9:45 am it was loose granular, wet and slow.

We will not be grooming today. The temperature is suppose to go from 29º to 39º. The forecast is for a mix of snow/sleet and freezing rain. Hoping the weather and temperature allow grooming on Friday morning. I will let you know.

Now to share a comment from the website, and to answer a question.

The photo above was taken Wednesday, the 26th, during a lesson for four friends. And this quote from Diana, after her lesson on Monday, “a shout out to cross country ski instructor Hilary Dahlstrom for an amazingly fun and helpful ski lesson yesterday. So glad we got it in just under the wire of the transition from winter to spring skiing! I love spring skiing but nothing compares to the the past few weeks of true winter skiing. Let’s hope it stages a return soon!”

So if you have been wanting to improve your skiing skills, ask about a lesson with Hilary.

And I mentioned the other day a 16.6 km loop Andy was doing. Three loops are close to 50 km. Here in Andy’s words is the explanation of this ski; “The 2025 route I like is: Woodcock / Snow Goose (w/o McQuaig’s), then Chickadee-Loon-Waite’s, then Middle BJ and Upper BJ, then straight downhill to headquarters. 3x is close to 50k.”