Open, 9º at 7am. The skies are partly cloudy. A small possibility of snow flurries today. Higher chance of a little snow tomorrow.

Ian is grooming the Woodcock, Snow Goose, Turkey, Grouse, Goshawk and Peregrine. It is grooming out nicely, a sugary snow. The sugary snow from today makes for quicker, faster skiing than the softer snow from last weekend.

Grooming snow for today. 1/26/2019

Chuck and I spent part of yesterday, Friday, fixing a spot at the bottom of a hill on the Chickadee.

Can you jump this? 1/25/2019

We pulled everything out of the brook. Such as sticks, leaves and rocks the water had brought down. Put the culvert back in, then put some snow over everything and taa-daa, a bridge.

Piling on the snow! 1/25/2019

Thankfully there is snow at the sides of the trail to move onto the trail! See you up there, at some point.

Closed, 23º at 6:30am. Partly cloudy. The snow has to dry out! Or we will turn it to cement. We still have snow to work with. We will be able to get open. It will be as soon as possible.

The snowman really did lose his head. We had a lot of rain. Chuck looked in the rain measuring can and his guess is, “Oh, sh*t”. It poured all Wednesday night, and Thursday morning.

Rain totals, 1.37 on Thursday morning, 2.28 this morning, (Friday) so a storm total of 3.65 inches of rain. And by the way that would have been 3 feet, or so, of snow.

We have low spots on the Woodcock and Snow Goose that are close to the brook. If the ice jams up funky there can be flooding in spots on those two trails. The top of the snow is drying out, so we know it will happen, sometimes patience is the hardest part.

A picture for your mental health!

Good Morning Star Shine, this picture is from Feb. of 2018.

Closed for today. 38° at 7am. And raining, it is actually quite disgusting outside today. The rain is supposed to stop this morning. The wind is going to shift and the temperature is going to drop. Then if the snow flurries really happen……..we will be skiing again as soon as possible

We have been open 48 days so far this season. And skiing 58 days. Holy cow, that is a lot of skiing!

The plan is to open again as quickly as we can with 10 km, the low trails. You will have to check back to find out all the details.

We are going to dig out our ice creepers to put on our shoes. Get out rain clothes on and the we get to go shovel out the path to the outhouse. The snow slid off the barn roof and digging out the path is easier before it refreezes.

The rain started and everything iced over. 4:00pm on 1/23/2019

Open, 13º at 6:30am. Forecast high today, 36º, cloudy with winter mixed precipitation starting this afternoon.  Good skiing still today, I would get out and enjoy the snow and 30ºs. The skiing is good! Ian is packing the Peregrine wider and putting a track back on the side of the trail. The low trails are tracked and the upper trails are packed, not tracked.

If tonight’s rain prediction and tomorrow’s warm temperatures are correct we will be closed on Thursday.

Yesterday Chuck went and picked up a new “sled”. Snow mobile to us. Ian said it is like driving a Cadillac, not sure how he knows how a Cadillac drives, but I get the drift. It is sure fancy looking! And it steers turn and go. With the old one you had to turn and pray. This new one is amazing. It is a four stroke, better emissions. Fuel consumption is cut in half. Win, win, win.

The new work horse. 1/23/2019

On Sunday morning at 5:30am we said goodbye to our old friend, the snow mobile. It was new in 2004 and had had a good run.