This is Dick. More about him later.
Open, 4º at 7am. Forecast high 24º and sunny! Really great skiing, again today. Chickadee and Loon closed for the week.
This is Ian’s video. At the beginning look for the tree with 2 shelf fungus, there are also 2 visable chainsaw cuts on the tree. This is Dick’s tree. Dick cut marks in the tree, one fall, a long time ago, at 1 foot, 2, 3 and 4 feet. Three feet and 4 feet are the marks you see. So the snow at the top of the Upper Blue Jay is 3 feet deep. Now watch this ski down. Aren’t you ready to get up there!!!!! I am going again.
On Sunday we had a first. A wonderful customer now skiing with a service dog. The dog has wonderful manners. He is big and handsome, and I know he will be welcome everywhere they go. He certainly is welcome back here anytime. He is a working dog, so when he is here remember working dog rules, don’t pet him, pretty much ignore him. Ruby is always here and available for loving. He is a balance trained service dog. The pair of them did better and better each trip around, confidence growing. They had a wonderful day to be out, perfect weather, and perfect ski conditions.
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I love that run on Upper Jay! The tracks are in the perfect place. Thank you Ian! I was once a groomer and I want to point out that setting track with the Tidd Tech is a very deliberate affair. If you want to stop setting track for a downhill section, you stop the snowmobile, get off, go back to the groomer and flip the track pan up so it piggybacks on the groomer, get back on the snowmobile and smooth out the hill until you want tracks again, stop, flip the track pan back on the snow, get back on, set track until the hill gets steep again, stop, get off and so on and so on. My point is, it would be much easier to set track right through minor hills or skip setting track in short sections that flatten out but Ian doesn’t. He sets them where they need to be and never where they’d get in the way of your downhill run. You can see how one-way trails make determining where to set track and where not to a lot easier and without having to compromise one direction or the other. Thank you Wild Wings for really having your act together. It makes every inch of trail more fun!
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Ian is the best groomer! We are so lucky to have him around!