Open, 23º at 7 am. Forecast high 42º and mostly cloudy.

7 km open, Woodcock, Snow Goose, Grouse, and Turkey. Loose frozen granular in most places. A track, in most places you expect a track. Ian took the photos below while grooming last night.

There are a few spots where the snow is thin. Don’t use your good skis, the snow is dirty in places.

The photo below is at the start of the Woodcock this morning. Skiing will be skiable and quick before the temperature goes up. We are grateful to have 7 k, 4 trails, and skiing that looks like this. Thanks for all the hard work family and friends!

Open, 27º at 6 pm. Low tonight 22º and high tomorrow 44º.

The terrain will be limited, Turkey, Grouse, Woodcock and Snow Goose. In places the skiing will be ok. Some places will be thin. Some places will be hard, most places will be loose frozen granular. The snow in places will be dirty. Most places the skiing will be fast until it warms up. Don’t plan on using your good skis, and plan on a “this is better than nothing attitude”.

Today, shovel snow onto the trail or a scoop shovel or sled. Move to where it was needed on the trail and dump. Repeat.

Pile snow on the trail. Flatten with the Pisten Bully.

And then it looks like this. Mostly. I will do another post in the morning with photos after Ian and the Pisten Bully have gone around and around.

Closed today, Saturday. At 6:45 am the temperature is 11º. Forecast high 31º and mostly sunny.

We are planning to be open Sunday morning.

We just had 48 hours, at least, of temperatures as high as 50º and some rain. We have lost a lot of snow. Ian and Dan have been working like crazy to try to get snow back on the trails to cover ice and bare spots. Ian drove around last night in the snow cat. He has more work to do today. And he is 95% sure he can have some skiing for tomorrow.

The terrain will be limited, probably Turkey, Grouse, Woodcock and Snowgoose. In places the skiing will be ok. Some places will be thin. Some places will be hard, most places will be loose frozen granular. The snow in places will be dirty. Most places the skiing will be fast until it warms up. Don’t plan on using your good skis, and plan on a “this is better than nothing attitude”.

This photo is from this morning and is back down the Woodcock by the bridge. There are many places in the woods with great coverage. Other spots, not so much. And, of course, the spots with bad coverage tend to be places without snow beside the trail, so we need to move it; by shovel, sled, or snowcat.

Closed, we will open again ASAP. We will not be open on Saturday. Hoping and working for Sunday.

See below, today was more of the same.

A few photos of what’s been happening here. All day Thursday, and into Thursday night, Ian finished last night about 10 pm. He worked into the night trying to get snow moved at 37º instead of 50º and not in Friday’s rain.

Wednesday we had a visit from The Mountain School, about 60 kids and about 15 adult chaperones: