Our friend Larry, 3/24.2019.

Open, 17º at 7am and sunny. High today 32º. Skiing will be softer and slower between 10:00am and 2pm. 22 km open. The cold nights make for crunchy snow. Warm melts the snow, cold refreezes the snow. 22 km classic and 6 km skate. When the snow is cold and crunchy it is faster. Spring conditions expect the snow to vary.

I am going to say is again. Warm temperatures, like Sunday the 24th, 44º, makes mashed potato snow. Cold temperatures, like the nights have been, 20º, freezes the snow and makes it crunchy, which makes it faster,

The snow will warm up and soften in the sun today, but the shade could/will still be a little fast.

And speaking of spring conditions, that is what makes the sap run. We gathered yesterday morning and boiled and made 6 gallons of syrup. Pretty good day. The sap was 4% which is really high coming straight out of the trees. Less time to boil it down into syrup.

This sap is sweet. 4%. 3/25/2019