Open, 26º at 7:30 am. Forecast high today is 53º. The sun is shining and the sky is blue. Another lovely day to be outside.

We have 7 km open, Turkey, Grouse, and Peregrine. The skiing is hard and fast in the morning, it will be slow, corn snow in the middle of the day, getting faster when the sun goes down at the end of the day. If you want another day to ski this is it. Plan on doing the same trail multiple times.

The road is going to get muddy today. We had one person yesterday, having a hard time with the road. Here is a little unsolicited advice. Where there are ruts, aim high, don’t put your tires in the ruts. Drive slow, the mud will push you side to side a little, go slow. But don’t stop. It is easier to keep going slow than to get going again.

And photos from this morning.

Open, 28º at 7:30 am, blue sky and the sun is shining, great day to be outside. We have groomed 7 km. Best skiing early this morning.

Spring skiing- With a forecast temperature of 45º, Maxiglide will be needed on no wax skis today. The skiing will get soft in the middle of the day. Then get fast toward the end of the day. Wednesday and Thursday, fast in the morning and late in the day, slow during the middle of the day.

The two photos are from this morning. The sun is more north on the horizon every day. (I take a photo from this angle often during the season).

You can see how the snow has groomed out, mostly good to really good, with a few humps and lumps here and there. Ian shoveled the wet spot on the Peregrine and moved many big branches.

The ground is so wet and not frozen in many places. Many trees with shallow roots just blew over. So many have fallen on the trails we could only open 7 km.

Closed, 22º at 8 am, 2.5 inches of snow overnight. But the wind is howling and is expected to howl until midnight. We don’t want to be in the woods and we don’t want you out there either. And the road isn’t great.

Yesterdays snow was 10-13 inches of wet sloppy mess. Today there is a little new snow on top and the wind blew all night and the snow pack is drier, but still puddles of water underneath. One day at a time here.

On the down track on our side of Styles Junction.

Closed. 11.4 inches of snow overnight. The temperature at 8 am is 31º. The forecast is for snow off and on during the day with very little new accumulation and the temperature going up to 37º. Tonight, a low of 22º and another inch or two of snow. Monday snow and wind, high temperature of 32º.

To get open again we would need this snow to dry out, and then get it packed down enough to have some base. By the time the snow could be skiable, the sun, rain, and temperature might do it in, again.

Here is what the trails looked like yesterday, before the new snow. Some snow, some ice, some dry trail, and some ponds.

And here are two photos from this morning. Most of you know Peach, the snow is up toward the top of her legs. Otis (brown dog) hasn’t been at the barn much, he is tall, so not as easy to measure with his photo.

And a few random shots from outside this past week. The first two photos are on the Middle Blue Jay. This is one of the trees that came down in the last big wind storm. The second photo is porcupine scat under the rock house, where a porcupine has lived for 30 years. The third photo, that little green sprout is a Fiddlehead fern sprout. And the 4th photo, look in the lower left corner, is rhubarb poking up. (Really, really early for Fiddleheads and rhubarb.)