Nov 02 2025
When you are ready to purchase your season pass they are available online, or you can send a check.
We did not get any snow in the Halloween storm. And that is ok. We would rather the snow waited and it all fell the end of November or beginning of December and the temperature stayed cold and the snow stayed on the ground until the end of March. I know that is a big ask.
A few photos from last season. Lots of good skiing and happy skiers.
Sep 29 2025
On rainy days Ian jumps in the excavator and fixes culverts, takes down trees that are in the way, moves rocks and just in general tries to make grooming more pleasant.
I do love this time of year. The layer of leaves on the ground, red and yellow. the crunchy leaves, the damp leaves. I love the smell. I love the cooler temperatures. I love standing in the woods and staring up. Fall leaves and blue sky or grey sky, I love both. The photos below are on the down track, and the Upper Blue Jay.
And if you are ready to purchase your season pass here is the link.
Sep 13 2025
And the work goes on, and the work goes on. I love looking back on where I’ve been. It is so satisfying. The trails are beautiful. We have a ways to go, but we are getting there.
Below, photo one is the hole the made by the root ball of a white birch tip over from the ice storm the end of March on the Upper Blue Jay. The second photo is usually a small pond on the Peregrine, we jokingly call it the snow making pond. As you can see it is so empty the dog can’t even find a drink of water.
Most trails are mowed if you are looking for a walk. And they are dry. If you take your dog, take a leash, just in case you run into other walkers.
Aug 07 2025
Spring, summer and fall are spent getting ready for next winter season. This year has been the most off season trail work we’ve done in many years. There are always sticks, branches and trees down. From rot and/or too much rain, too little rain, or too much wind. This year on March 30 and 31st we had an ice storm and Peru took the prize. We were the winners on the highest power outage map. So much damage!
The power went out early in the day on Sunday the 30th of March. Ice had accumulated in the trees on the ground etc. The temperatures were expected to go up, and the prediction was for the ice to start falling out of the trees. The temperature did not go up. The freezing rain continued, and Monday, the 31st, we woke up to more ice, branches heavier, trees and branches bending and breaking. The noise of trees falling and breaking was constant to the point of being outside feeling dangerous.
Ian cleaned up the Turkey, Woodcock and Snow Goose by April 3rd and 4th. The upper trails were another story. The storm ice damage was more severe at certain elevations. Birch, beech, moose maple(also called stripped maple), service berry (also called shad) and yellow birch trees took a beating, bending into the trail, mostly one or two at a time, but in a couple spots 50 to 80 trees down in a mess. Tops of maple trees broke, big old messy branches. I worked at cleaning the downed mess a chunk of trail at a time. With grand kids, especially Wyatt, in tow we sawed and threw branches off the Peregrine and Middle Blue Jay. Mike, Jon, and Jonathan helped me clean up Chickadee, Waite’s Place Loop, Loon and Upper Blue Jay. Whew, the 4 of us cut our way through in 4 hours. They say a picture is worth a 1000 words. Here are a few photos.
Now, on to mowing and weed eating getting trails smooth and ski ready. Firewood cut, split, and moved. And all the other little chores we need to get done.
