More warm weather

 Last couple days were hard on the snow here. I scooped some snow in the bad spots, but then the snowmobile didn’t have enough power to pull the groomer. So it is not groomed right now.

Pilot knob Road

 I groomed the road today but couldn’t set tracks. At most we had 2 inches of snow in the good spots. In the bad spots, it was blown clean. I would say the east half of the park is in pretty good skiing shape. The west half has a lot of twigs blown down onto the trail and may not make for a very good ski experience.

The lake still has slush underneath the new snow so I could not groom that.

Warm and rainy

 It’s melting. We’ll see what happens with the system coming Sunday.

 

 

Pilot knob

 The road has been getting too much debris falling from the trees for it to be enjoyable to ski anymore. I would not recommend skiing on the road. It’s time to look for untouched patches of snow to crust ski on.

Pilot knob

 The road was scratched up this morning for some halfway decent skate skiing. There’s certainly some icy spots and lots of tree debris, but we can’t complain.

Pilot knob lake

 Pilot knob Lake is finally thick enough to groom. It was disappointing to only find one to 2 inches of snow on top of the ice though. The initial big snow must’ve pushed the ice down and it all froze. So I was not able to groom any tracks for classic skiing. But it looks like skate skiing will be very good.

Morning groom

 The road at Pilot knob State Park has been groomed this morning.