Open at 9 am. The temperature at 7 am is 7º. The forecast high is 33º with snow starting this afternoon.
Grooming on the low trails last night left a lovely surface. The photos above are from this morning. It was cold out, but out to see the sunrise is a great way to start the day. Lovely skiing. Powdery hard pack.
Upper trails are faster, until the sun softens them, or the snow starts to fall and slows them down.
Otter slides have been spotted again. The coyotes are moving around. Also watch for bobcat and rabbit tracks. The animals are getting a little winter fatigue also. They are hungry and looking for food, which means they are moving and leaving tracks for us to see.
The birds are busy too. We are filling the bird feeder daily. We have all the normal winter bird feeder birds, blue jays, chickadee, tufted tit mice, red breasted nuthatch, white breasted nuthatch, downy woodpeckers, hairy woodpeckers, mourning doves, goldfinches, and we have had a pine grosbeak or two. We have purple finches off and on. And as spring gets closer we have quite a few juncos. We have not seen many evening grosbeaks, we don’t really have cardinals here, except as they pass through to better habitat. Last weekend we had two skiers with binoculars and it was fun to hear which birds they had spotted in the woods.
If you take the time to look and listen, there is a lot going on out in the woods.
